Before the end of this year, the Michigan Weather Center will move to Substack.
The expenses of having this site are astronomical, and trying to keep up with the updates to WordPress so I decided to follow Bill Steffen’s example and post a plain old blog. Slim will follow suit with the move. I am now posting to both until November when this site will cease to be.
Yesterday in Otsego we had a high of 23° and a low of 19°. We had a few peeks of the sun and no snowfall.
Weather History
1942: Record cold high temperatures occur as arctic high pressure prevails. The high temperature is only 4 degrees at Grand Rapids and 6 at Muskegon. At Lansing, the thermometer struggles to reach the zero mark during the day, with a frigid northwest wind making it feel even colder
1988: An arctic blast brings several days of sub zero cold to Lower Michigan, including record lows this morning of 15 below zero at Grand Rapids and 11 below at Muskegon.
On January 7, 2014, Southeast Michigan was amidst a 3-day period of record to near record cold temperatures. Record lows were recorded at Detroit, Flint, and Saginaw. Detroit and Flint each fell to -14 degrees while Saginaw fell to -11 degrees. The coldest spot in Southeast Michigan was the city of Saline in Washtenaw County which fell to -23 degrees! The high temperature in Detroit on this day reached only -1 making it one of the coldest days on record for the city. Widespread wind chills in the -30s and -40s were recorded.
Also on January 7, 2008, record highs were set across Southeast Michigan. Detroit reached 64, Flint 61, and Saginaw 59. These temperatures were only 3 to 4 degrees off of the all-time January high temperatures. Later during the evening, thunderstorms moved across the region. Some of these storms were severe in Midland, Washtenaw and Monroe Counties! Since 1986 only two other January have had severe weather, 1990 and 1996.
SW Michigan Forecast
SE Forecast
Northern Forecast
U.P. Forecast
Forecast Discussion
- Several rounds of light snow possible through the weekend The light snow that fell over the northwest cwa yesterday has ended...for now. A few flurries remain over the eastern cwa that are drifting south from northern Lower, but that too is diminishing. Water vapor imagery shows the next short wave moving south toward Lake Superior. This wave will drag down another burst of arctic air tonight and Wednesday which will generate some lake effect snow. Bufkit omega profiles point toward moderate lift within the DGZ from roughly 08z-16z Wednesday. Moisture isn`t all that deep though, so that`s a limiting factor. However, the DGZ is saturated and flake size should be fairly decent. H8 temps near -15c will create delta t`s around 20c. Boundary layer winds will be nearly parallel to the lake shore, which is where the largest accumulations will be noted. This looks like a 2-4 inch event with locally higher amounts depending on where the bands develop. Winds will eventually back to the northwest Wednesday which will put some snow showers inland. Thus, we included PoPs across most of the cwa. The snow will diminish Wednesday night once the upper trough moves south. The next event will begin Friday when a longitudinal upper trough moves east across the state. Most of the energy will be at the base of the trough over Texas where significant snow may fall. Farther north across the Great Lakes, another light snow event is expected to begin Friday morning and end early Saturday. Bufkit points toward a couple of inches of snow with this trough. Given the lack of a surface low, I can`t see much more snow than that especially given specific humidity values around 2g/kg. Models are showing a clipper moving through the region Sunday accompanied by a decent short wave and a trailing shot of arctic air. This should provide some synoptic and lake effect snow to the cwa with accumulations possible. - Typical January temperatures Wednesday will be the coldest day of the week with highs in the lower to mid 20s. The rest of the week, we`ll see highs in the mid to upper 20s, which is pretty typical of early January.
What a winter! All signs still point towards the cold and snow to continue to pound West M! Let it Snow, let it Snow, let it Snow! wow, just wow, WOW!
The official H/L yesterday at GRR was 24/20 there was a trace of snowfall the day started with just 1” on the ground. The sun did appear and was out 33% of the time. For today the average H/L is 32/20, the record high of 63 was in 2008 the coldest high of 4 was in 1942 and 1912. The record low of -15 was in 1988 the warmest low of 58 was in 2008. The wettest was in 1907 with 0.59” the most snowfall of 5.4” was in 1962 the most on the ground was 20” in 1999.
Slim