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January 2022 – The Michigan Weather Center
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Watches are Up for Heavy Snow Event

Well, here we go.  The NWS has released Winter Storm Watches for southern Michigan for Tuesday night through Thursday.  I am sure counties will be added or deleted before the actual event but we are given plenty of time to prepare.  This just goes to show how computer models can change from one run to […]

This Weeks Weather Guesses

This month will go down in the books as cold, though we haven’t had a lot of snow we have kept it on the ground due to lack of temps above freezing  Most of our snow loss has been due to sublimation (the transition of a substance directly from a solid-state to a gas state).  […]

February

February   Next week we will flip the calendar over to February. Last week I looked at the two biggest blizzards I have seen. And next week is the anniversary of the last big true blizzard to hit this area. On February 1st and 2nd in 2011 a big storm system hit the southern great […]

Some Sun Today

Very cold this morning.  Our temp here at the station is currently 1.9° with a dewpoint of 0.2° at 6 am.  We are on our way to a possible below 0 morning before sunrise.   Yesterday we had 29.5° with a low of 4.5° and trace amounts of freezing drizzle mixed with a few snowflakes. We […]

Warmer Today – Some Snow Showers

We had a high temp yesterday of 21° and the low was 3° at midnight last night.  We have climbed to 13° at 5 am this morning.  The coldest air in southern Michigan is in the SE part of the state where temps are still in the single digits. We will have some light snow […]

Advisories End – Weather History – Cleveland Superbomb

The advisories will finally end at 10:00 am this morning and snow will diminish along the lakeshore.  We have 10° at 4:30 this morning and another inch of lake effect snow to add to our total giving us 17.9 inches for the month and 31 inches for the season.  Last year at this time we […]

Snow & Cold Continue

Winter will hold firm in the days ahead, with cold overnight lows in the single digits and daytime highs in the teens to around 20°. Lakeshore areas will see lake-effect snow showers through Wednesday, then again on Friday. Most areas will also see a chance of snow on Thursday.  This is the climatologically coldest time […]

Snow Showers today

…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST TUESDAY… * WHAT…Snow. Additional snow accumulations of 3 to 5 inches. * WHERE…Ottawa, Allegan and Van Buren counties. * WHEN…Until 7 PM EST Tuesday. …WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST THIS EVENING… * WHAT…Snow. Additional snow accumulations of 2 to 4 […]

Winter Weather Advisory (Expires at 9 am)

Woke up to an unexpected 4 inches of new snow on the ground this morning and the snow is still falling at 5:00 am.  We have a winter weather advisory until 9 am for Allegan, Van Buren and Kalamazoo counties.  We needed some fresh snow to cover up the frozen snowpack which has been on […]

The Great Blizzards!

The twin Blizzards Next week in the anniversary of two of Michigan’s greatest “true” blizzards.  What is odd is that both started on the same date January 26th   one in 1967 and the other in 1978.  I live in Bay City for both storms and in Bay City the 1967 storm was the worst of […]