NEW YORK – As Thanksgiving travelers hit the road, a powerful one winter storm system over the Northeast could potentially cause travel delays and disruptions.

An area of ​​low pressure will move over the region on Saturday, bringing significant rain snow for millions of people.

Snowy conditions in Moscow, Pennsylvania, are making the roads treacherous for motorists.

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Greater Binghamton Airport in Johnson City, New York, is closed due to worsening winter weather conditions. Delays and cancellations have been reported at other major airport hubs in New York, Boston and Washington.

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Most of New England and parts of the Northeast are likely to see only useful rain from this event, due to warm air moving in from the Atlantic Ocean Ocean. Heavy snow will fall at higher elevations and locations directly below the cold, upper-level low-pressure system.

Fort Blackmore, Virginia received 2 to 8 inches of snow overnight and more is on the way.

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Winter storm warnings remain in effect for parts of West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York Tennessee, North Carolina And Kentucky are also under a winter weather warning.

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Northeast Pennsylvania and the Catskills of New York The heaviest accumulations are expected to occur before the second half of the weekend, with accumulations of up to a foot.

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The FOX Forecast Center said heavy snow is falling in the Allegheny Mountains West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, for residents above 1,000 feet in elevation.

Just a few inches of dusting is possible at lower elevations, where air and ground temperatures are warmer.

Forecast rain totals in the Northeast and New England should remain in the 1-2 inch range, although locally higher amounts of 2-3 inches or more are possible in some areas.

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The precipitation is expected to help alleviate some of the record-breaking drought conditions and reduce drought wildfire threat plaguing the region. More than 12 inches of snow has been reported in the area around the deadly Jennings Creek Fire that is smoldering along the New Jersey-New York border, according to the FOX Forecast Center.

Behind this storm system, the coldest air of the season will move south from Canada in the days after Thanksgiving and early December. Much of the country will experience below-average temperatures as travelers head home, according to the FOX Forecast Center.

In the Northern Plains, minimum temperatures may drop below -10 degrees in some of these areas, with wind chill even lower.