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The first snow is forecast for the mountains (5 min), with captions The story A coastal storm crossing the East on Thursday, November 12, is forecast to br...

The first snow is forecast for the mountains (5 min), with captions The story A coastal storm crossing the East on Thursday, November 12, is forecast to bring the season's first widespread accumulating snowfall, according to the federal Weather Prediction Center. The snow is expected mainly on the higher elevations of New York, Pennsylvania and New England, while lower elevations and valleys are forecast to see mostly rain. The Weather Prediction Center described the event as the first widespread accumulating snowfall of the season. Forecasters put the highest odds of significant snow on the mountains. In the Catskills, the Adirondacks and the Green Mountains, there is a 50 to 80 percent chance of more than 4 inches. In the Hudson and Connecticut valleys, the chance of even 1 inch tops out at 10 percent. As of 10:15 a.m. Eastern, six winter storm warnings were in force across the country, all of them in the mountains of California and western Nevada. Local winter weather advisories set the snow by elevation. Vermont and northern New York are forecast to get 2 to 5 inches, mainly above 1,200 feet. The Catskills could see up to 4 inches above 1,500 feet, and the southern Appalachians of Tennessee 1 to 4 inches above 3,000 feet. Lake Placid, in the Adirondacks, is forecast to get snow Thursday and 1 to 2 inches overnight, in a range where forecasters put the odds of more than 4 inches among the highest in the East. The storm is expected to arrive in stages. Rain spreads over the Northeast on Thursday, with snow only on the highest ground. Thursday night, rain changes to snow over the mountains of New York, Pennsylvania and New England. Winter storm warnings begin in the Sierra Nevada on Friday, wet snow reaches the central and southern Appalachians Friday night, and below-freezing temperatures reach the Deep South by Saturday morning. The heaviest snow of the week is forecast in the West, from a separate Pacific storm. In Mono County, California, 1 to 2 feet is expected above 7,000 feet, and around Lake Tahoe near 12 inches above 7,000 feet with up to 20 inches along the crest and ridge gusts of 70 to 90 miles an hour. Forecasters expect blizzard conditions there. In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, lake-effect snow could add 3 to 8 inches through Friday over the high ground of Marquette and Baraga counties, with up to 10 inches in rural areas. A polar air mass follows the storm into the eastern half of the country. Lows are forecast to fall into the 20s across much of the central United States, and below-freezing temperatures are expected to reach the Deep South by Saturday morning. CNN's meteorologists reported that nearly 200 million people east of the Mississippi will get their coldest air since spring. Forecasters expect widespread frost and freeze across the South and Southeast this weekend, with Atlanta forecast to see widespread frost and a low of 33 on Sunday morning. Forecasters caution that the edges of the snow band could shift. A forecast discussion said there continues to be a lot of uncertainty about how the band will evolve, and noted that even the valleys may receive some light accumulating snow on Friday morning. The forecast offices update their predictions through the day, and the call that New York, Boston and Philadelphia get rain from this storm is the forecast's own. Highlights Highlight In pictures Listen The episode as audio