This morning was reported a pileup on westbound I-94 near Michigan City, Ind., covered with ice, thus all the westbound lanes were shut.

According to Indiana State Police Sgt. Anne Wojas, due to the low temperatures and blowing lake effect snow, travel on I-94 and I-65 in Lake, Porter and LaPorte Counties in the morning was very hard, wbbm780.com reports.

Police received reports about 70 accidents, with one non-life threatening injury reported.

According to police, 10 semi-tractor trailer trucks and 10 to 12 passenger cars were involved in the accidents.

The highway had to be shut down westbound between U.S. 35 and 421.

Sgt. Wojas said that around 7:10 a.m. five semi trucks collided at the 37- mile marker on I-94, that’s three miles east of the Michigan City exit. Other cars collided trying to avoid the accident.

The traffic was diverted off at Route 20 in La Porte County, from 9:10 a.m.

In the Michigan City area almost 2 to 3 inches of snow fell overnight thus making driving slick on the roadway near the U.S. 421 exit in Michigan City

The National Weather Service issued a wind chill advisory for Lake, DeKalb, Kane, DuPage, Cook and Will counties until noon.

The forecast for the day is a windy and cold one with clouds. In northwest Indiana the lake effect might appear, with accumulations of 3-6 inches.

Temperatures will vary from 10-15 degrees, with 20 below in the morning and below zero through the day.

According to the weather service, a large polar pressure is forming above South Central Canada which will move over Midwest on Tuesday night.

The wind chill is expected to be cooled by the wind gusts, Tuesday night and will last until Wednesday.