CLEVELAND, Ohio — If you have holiday shopping or weekend plans in Northeast Ohio, you’ll want to keep a close eye on the weather, with accumulating snow expected Saturday and Sunday and a surge of Arctic air bringing dangerously cold wind chills.

Quiet conditions to end the workweek will give way to an increasingly wintry pattern this weekend, as snow spreads across the region Saturday and lingers into Sunday before bitter cold settles in behind it.

Forecasters with the National Weather Service in Cleveland say travel could become difficult at times, especially in the snowbelt, where the heaviest snow is expected.

A winter storm watch is in effect from 7 a.m. Saturday through 1 a.m. Monday for portions of Northeast Ohio, including Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula counties, wher

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