At a Glance The NWS has made changes to its winter alerts.This includes consolidating lake effect snow and freezing rain alerts into winter storm and winter weather alerts.This is just one step in an overall "hazard simplification" process. The National Weather Service has pared downits long-standing collection of winter advisories, watches and warningsin an effort to simplify communication of hazardous snow and ice events. (MORE: ) The initiative, launched Monday, eliminated five previous watches, advisories and warnings andincorporated them in...