Yesterday’s high occurred at midnight at 48° and the low was 28°. It snowed a good portion of the day with very little snow accumulation on the ground. A warming trend begins today with highs in the 40s and in the 50s and 60s for Tuesday and Wednesday. Partly to mostly sunny skies are expected today and Tuesday before rain returns to the forecast on Wednesday.
Weather History
1943: Heavy rains and melting snow result in flooding across southwest Lower Michigan. Childsdale Dam on the Rogue River gave way. Several families were evacuated from Comstock Park near Grand Rapids.
1973: A record snowstorm dumps over a foot of snow across southern Lower Michigan. Jackson is buried under 19 inches of snow and Lansing has a record 16.5 inches.
On March 17, 1973, a powerful winter storm hit all of Southeast Michigan. The storm started on the evening of March 16, 1973. Detroit received 9.9 inches, Flint had 13.7 and Saginaw was buried under 21.3 inches. This storm stands as the 3rd heaviest snowfall in Saginaw history and the 4th heaviest in Flint history.
SPC Forecast for Wednesday
Forecast Discussion
- Showers and possible thunder mid week, then colder with rain/snow Today and Tuesday will see partly cloudy skies and warming temperatures as high pressure zips across the state. It`ll be short lived though because a lee side low is going to develop in the Plains today and then track toward the western Great Lakes tomorrow. We`ll see an increasingly strong southerly flow develop today that will continue into Wednesday. Temperatures will respond by warming into the 40s today and 60s Tuesday and Wednesday. The surface low will push a warm through north through the central cwa tonight. It might not make it trough the northern cwa Tuesday, which would mean a cooler easterly flow off of Lake Huron. That would keep temperatures in the lower to mid 50s near US-10 Tuesday. However, south of there, we should see highs climb into the lower 60s. Add a couple of degrees to that for Wednesday. As the low moves across the Mississippi early Wednesday, rain will spread in from the west. A strong upper wave will accompany this surface low Wednesday night and provide a few hundred joules MUCAPE for isolated thunder Wednesday evening. A 55kt LLJ will move over the cwa Wednesday evening and gusty winds will be possible as the showers develop. The thunder threat won`t last long and colder air will pour into the cwa after midnight Wednesday night, changing the rain to snow. Light accumulations will be possible again prior to the snow ending Thursday morning. Highs Thursday will be only in the upper 30s. - Rain/snow next weekend Ridging moves in Thursday and early Friday before the next system moves across southern Canada and pushes a cold front across the cwa Friday night. Light rain, possibly mixed with snow across the northern half of the cwa looks plausible Friday night and Saturday and again Sunday night and Monday as yet another low moves across the Great Lakes.
No question this has been a very warm March so far. We will see what the second half is like… there are signs it will be closer to average, but I’m pretty confident March will end up above average overall
GR is now a whopping +5.9 degrees above average in March with the highest temp being 76 degrees. These early springs are sure nice.
The overnight low and current temperature here in MBY was 21. The is a covering of snow of about .3” on the ground. Back in 1973 I lived in Bay City and on this date one of the most powerful snowstorms in my life happened. Over 22” of snow fell in Bay City there were winds of more that 60 MPH out of the NE there was thundersnow (a lot of lightning and thunder) and the winds pushed water from Saginaw Bay into the city and there was massive flooding.
Slim
Happy St Patty’s Day!!! The official H/L yesterday at GRR was 45/7 there was 0.57” of rainfall and 0.2” of snowfall. The highest wind gust was 27 MPH out of the NW the sun was reportedly out 1% of the time. For today the average H/L is 45/27 the record high of 78 was in 2012 the coldest high of 10 was in 1941 the record low of -4 was in 1949 the warmest low of 54 was in 2012. The most rainfall of 1.47” was in 1919 the most snowfall of 7.5” was in 1973 the most on the… Read more »