CBS News New York's Lonnie Quinn is monitoring a system that will move into our area late Friday and will have more as the week progresses.

The first full week of January will be a cold and flaky one. We’ll be under a persistent weather pattern, keeping cold Arctic air circulating across the Great Lakes.

A First Alert Weather Day is in effect for wind gusts that will climb upwards of 40 MPH with our next round of rain.

The next weather maker is a clipper-type system that might lead to a chance of snow showers Thursday night into Friday morning. This will be on the northern edge of a developing winter storm impacting the central & southern Plains,

Watch your step on Monday morning as a little freezing drizzle and light snow will cause untreated surfaces to be slick.

Phase two begins midday on Monday. After a morning with just some mist or drizzly flurries, a 3-5-hour period of new accumulating snow will arrive in the afternoon through the start of the evening rush hour. A fresh coating will reinforce the dense snow on the ground.

An Arctic front brings bitterly cold wind chills in the teens; another potent system ushers in the risk of wintry precipitation for Thursday and Friday.

Clouds will thicken ahead of a dynamic storm in the Mid-Mississippi Valley that is bringing a wide swath of snow and ice from the central Plains to the Ohio Valley and severe storms in the Southern states.

Temperatures will rapidly fall behind the cold front. We are waking up to a cloudy, breezy, and cold air with te