Lake-effect snow continued to fall on parts of western New York that were already blanketed with a foot or more over the past four days. By Monday morning, the village of Cassadaga, east of Lake Erie, recorded 5.5 feet (1.7 meters) of snow. And snow was expected to continue through Tuesday in the largely rural area south of Buffalo.

After a weekend of extreme snowfall and accumulations of almost 5 feet near the northern border of New York, lake-effect snow bands lingered Monday morning. The Lake Ontario snow band had mostly dried up,

Lake-effect snow blowing in from the Great Lakes has blanketed parts of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, stranding hundreds of vehicles on roads and snarling post-Thanksgiving travel. Well over two feet of snow had fallen in many parts of the region by early Monday,