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Yesterday we had a high of 34° and a low of 29°.  We have three inches of snow on the ground this morning at 7 am.


Winter Weather Advisory

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST
SATURDAY...

* WHAT...Snow. Additional snow accumulations between 1 and 3 inches.

* WHERE...Osceola, Lake, Mason, Newaygo, and Oceana Counties.

* WHEN...Until 7 AM EST Saturday.

* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
  conditions will impact the Friday morning and evening commutes.

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST
SATURDAY...

* WHAT...Snow. Additional snow accumulations between 2 and 5 inches.

* WHERE...Portions of southwest and west central Michigan.

* WHEN...Until 7 AM EST Saturday.

* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
  conditions will impact the Friday morning and evening commutes.

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST
SATURDAY...

* WHAT...Snow. Additional snow accumulations between 2 and 4 inches.

* WHERE...Calhoun, Eaton, and Jackson Counties.

* WHEN...Until 7 AM EST Saturday.

* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
  conditions will impact the Friday morning and evening commutes.

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST
SATURDAY...

* WHAT...Snow. Additional snow accumulations between 2 and 4 inches.

* WHERE...Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Manistee, and Wexford
  Counties.

* WHEN...Until 7 AM EST Saturday.

* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.


Weather History

1929: A month after the great stock market crash, it is the temperature that crashes in Lower Michigan. Record morning cold in the single digits is followed by afternoon highs only in the 10 to 15 degree range.

1960: A strong cold front moves through dropping temperatures dramatically and setting off lake effect snow showers. The temperature stays in the 20s during the day at Muskegon, after a high of 61 degrees the day before. The freighter Francisco Morazan runs aground off South Manitou Island in northern Lake Michigan during a heavy lake effect snow squall. All aboard are rescued by the Coast Guard in near white-out conditions.

1998: Balmy weather prevails during the final days of November, with lows in the 50s and highs in the 60s. Record highs today include the 65 degrees at Muskegon, Lansing and Grand Rapids.

On November 29, 2011, heavy rain fell across much of Southeast Michigan. The rain changed to snow during the evening and early morning hours of November 30. Between 1 and 3.5 inches of precipitation fell which help make November 2011 and Autumn 2011 the wettest on record in Detroit. This was just another round of heavy rain in 2011 which was the wettest in Detroit history and the 4th wettest in Flint history.

Also on November 29, 1998, Flint and Saginaw had a two-day period of record highs of the same temperature with the 29th and 30th both having a temperature of 64 degrees.


Forecast Discussion

- Lake effect snow showers through tonight into Saturday

WNW flow lake effect snow showers will continue today through
tonight with deeper moisture now in place through the dgz and with
h8 temps now down to -12 to -13 C yielding delta t/s into the
lower 20s. Some relatively stronger omegas in the dgz are noted at
times in guidance time height x-sections and current and fcst
soundings show inversion heights are more favorable now at around
7 to 9 kft agl.

Additional snow accumulations of around 2 to 5 inches are probable
in our favored wnw flow snow belt regions under the winter wx
advisory headline. This notion is supported by an overall
consensus of shorter range guidance as well as the 00Z HREF.
Localized higher amounts are possible where les bands are most
persistent. Our ongoing winter wx headlines look excellent with no
changes needed.

Lighter wnw flow les will linger into Saturday with light
additional accumulations of around an inch or so expected. Wind
speeds Saturday will be somewhat lighter than today so we expect
these lake effect snow showers to affect mostly our western two
tiers of counties as suggested by latest SREF pops.

- Cold northwest flow regime with lake effect snows through next week

High confidence in the overall pattern through next week with
persistent upper troughing across eastern Canada extending into
the NE CONUS. Cyclonic flow and occasional shortwave troughs
progressing through the mean flow will result in lake effect snow
showers of various intensity through next week.

Confidence is increasing that a clipper will come though with
synoptic and lake enhanced snows late Tuesday into Wednesday. Chance
POPs have increased to likely for that time range as models are
converging. It still appears likely the cold northwest flow regime
persists through the end of the week as the polar jet remains over
or just south of the Great Lakes.
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Nathan (Forest Hills)
Nathan (Forest Hills)

I crashed my dad’s car… I’ve been driving in the snow for years and take it very cautiously. Everyone is okay, that’s the most important thing

*SS*
*SS*

Oh no!!! Glad everyone is ok!!!

INDY
INDY

GR broke a snowfall total record today …. Who knew?? INDY

Rocky (Rockford)
Rocky (Rockford)

Incredible! Daily record and above for the season already! Who would have thought? Like I said a couple weeks ago it is going to be a wild winter! Mark it down and get ready to ROCK! Don’t worry the warm weather nuts will say we only got a dusting of snow! Too funny!

INDY
INDY

Current conditions SNOW …Above snowfall going into December is amazing lets goooo lets gooo lets gooo!! Roads are shi$$ be safe out there INDY

Kyle (Portland, Ionia County)
Kyle (Portland, Ionia County)

Sault Ste. Marie reported 23” of snow in a 24 hour period!!

Slim

Here is the web cam from the Michigan side of the bridge to Canada.
https://www.saultbridge.com/bridge-traffic-camera-south/
Slim

Slim

You can see the Canadian side by clicking on the wait times but here is the Canadian side web
https://www.saultbridge.com/bridge-traffic-camera-north/
Slim

Rocky (Rockford)
Rocky (Rockford)

Sounds and looks awesome!

*SS*
*SS*

We have 5 inches … Just north of Michael’s location.

Mark (East Lansing)
Mark (East Lansing)

Meteorological winter starts Sunday and right on schedule, winter-like weather is here. Hard to believe people were golfing this week. Just a dusting here – just enough to make the roads a bit slick. Be careful out there.

Rocky (Rockford)
Rocky (Rockford)
Rocky (Rockford)
Rocky (Rockford)

Wow, what a storm, what a transition to winter! Snow, snow, snow, cold, cold, cold and the winter forecast looks great! Fantastic! Keep it rocking till April!

INDY
INDY

Let’s goooo!! Snow and temperatures in the 20’s welcome to Winter I love this weather I’m going outside and making a INDY Angle in my shorts yeahhhh!! INDY

Slim

It had to come sometime. I had the 1st snowfall of over one inch overnight and there is 3.5” of snow on the ground here in MBY at the current time it is 26 with light snow falling.
Slim

Slim

He official H/L yesterday at GR was 34/28 there was 0.4” of snowfall. There was no sunshine the highest wind gust was 28 MPH out of the NW. For today the average H/L is 41/29 the record high of 65 was in 1998 the coldest high of 11 was in 1929. The record low of 6 was in 1929. The wettest was 1.19” in 1919 the most snowfall of 4.5” was in 1960 the most on the ground was 7” in 1940.
Slim