First Alert Weather: Yellow Alert for snow on Friday night and Saturday morning

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — After a cloudy Thursday with a few snow showers, we need to be ready for widespread snow developing on Friday.

A Yellow Alert is up for the lakeshore counties and may need to be expanded into the Finger Lakes. Plan on a general one to three inches areawide into the afternoon on Friday. Several more inches of snow look likely overnight into early Saturday near and north of the Thruway.

Snow totals in the Rochester metro will average three to six inches by Saturday morning. Even though this will not be a big storm,  be prepared for some road issues during the evening commute and Friday night. 

As new data arrives this afternoon and evening look for further updates. Stay tuned to News10NBC for an updated snow forecast into the weekend and also the latest forecast for Christmas.