A powerful winter storm system moving across the Great Lakes and Northeast is bringing snow and ice, frigid temperatures and fierce wind gusts.

On Thursday at 4:52 p.m. EST a winter storm warning was released by the National Weather Service in effect until Friday at 11 a.m. EST for Chippewa County.

A powerful winter storm swept across the central and eastern United States, knocking out power and snarling travel during one of the busiest stretches of the holiday season.

The cold front follows a system that barreled across the Midwest and parts of the Great Lakes with sharply colder air, strong winds and a mix of snow, ice and rain, leading to treacherous travel. Forecasters said it intensified quickly enough to meet the criteria of a bomb cyclone, a system that strengthens rapidly as pressure drops.

A powerful winter storm driven by a rapidly intensifying cyclone was sweeping east from the Plains on Sunday, bringing heavy snow, ice, rain and severe weather expected to affect much of the country.

The recent winter storm created spectacular ice formations along Lake Michigan's shoreline, with the 35-foot lighthouse covered in frozen layers.

Officials in Vermont and Buffalo, N.Y., warned residents to stay off the roads as a winter weather system brought thick sheets of ice and snow. Tens of thousands of power customers faced outages.

FOX Weather correspondent Katie Byrne reports live from Syracuse, New York on a powerful winter storm dumping more than a foot of snow, creating hazardous conditions across the Northeast and Midwest on 'America Reports.

Another series of atmospheric river-enhanced storms will soak California just days after a destructive Christmas-week storm.

A major winter storm is pummeling the Tri-State Area with snow and ice after New York and New Jersey declared states of emergency.