Residents in West Michigan should gear up for another winter blast as a snow storm is expected to affect the region Thursday afternoon into Friday morning.

Forecasters say that an additional 6 to 12 inches of snow could fall along the Lake Michigan shoreline, causing dangerous travel conditions. The storm system is moving at a time when residents are still recovering from a snow storm that hit earlier in the week, according to the National Weather Service.

Because of the likelihood of significant snowfall and blizzard-like conditions, a winter storm warning is set to go into effect starting on Thursday at 11 a.m. local time up until 4 p.m. Friday for the shoreline. In the meantime, Kent County and other parts of the region will go under an advisory for 3 to 6 inches of snow beginning at noon Thursday.

Blowing snow is also likely to cause occasional visibility whiteouts that will make travel treacherous shortly before the Thursday evening commute, said meteorologist Jim Maczko, reports MLive.

Maczko also predicts that snowfall rates of up to 2 inches per hour could occur under the heaviest snow bands, said Maczko, in addition to 45 mph wind gusts.

Commuters traveling east of Grand Rapids toward Lansing may also face hazardous conditions with blowing snow and reduced visibilities.

Meanwhile, the Great Lakes region will continue to be affected by the lake-effect snow off and on for the remainder of the week in the wake of Winter Storm Gorgon, reports The Weather Channel.

There will also be "blasts of arctic air cross the Great Lakes in between large-scale weather systems," reports The Weather Channel.

Earlier in the week, a strong lake-effect snow event hit the region on Monday, following Winter Storm Frona, right before Winter Storm Gorgon. As a result, areas near Fulton, New York -- which is in Oswego County -- were plummeted with over 28 inches of snow .