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DETROIT – The snow arrived on schedule late in the afternoon and evening on Monday and sometimes fell heavily throughout the night.
Monday late afternoon and evening the snow arrived exactly on schedule and sometimes fell heavily throughout the night. Snow reports are starting to arrive, and it shows we’ve had an overall 6 to 9 inch snowfall in the area.
Of course we get some reports outside of this range, and mainly because there is a lot of blown and drifting: there could be one or two foot deviations in one part of a parking lot, while another windy part of the parking lot could have the same lot only a few inches have snow on the sidewalk. It is difficult to measure fluffy snow in a windy environment.
As the snow comes down, today we’ll start to see some lake effect bands above the Thumb – some of which can extend south to as far south as between M-59 and I-69, so the ones that get below those bands have an inch of snow to deal with today.
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It’s going to be a cold day, with only high temperatures in the higher teens (-7 degrees Celsius), but a north to northwest wind of 10 to 20 mph, keeping the chills around zero (-18 degrees Celsius).
Today’s sunrise is at 7:28 AM and today’s sunset is at 6:08 PM
On Tuesday evening it will be mostly clear, which in combination with the fresh snow pack and the wind decreasing to below 10 mph, means that the temperature will crate. Lows range from -1 degree (-18 degrees Celsius) in the heart of our Urban Heat Island to -7 degrees (-22 degrees Celsius) or even a little colder in our coldest rural areas. Wind chills at night will be on average -10 to -15 degrees (-23 to -26 degrees Celsius).
Increasing cloud cover on Wednesdays, with peaks in the higher teens (-7 degrees Celsius).
Cloudy Wednesday evenings, with lows in the low teens (-11 degrees Celsius).
Today’s computer models are leaning toward less impact from the Thursday / Friday storm. If we get some accumulation, the best odds are on our east side.
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Keep in mind that the top-level disruption this storm will cause is just moving from the Pacific to the continent today, so our land-based weather balloon network can give us better data to include in the models later in the day. that will give us more confidence about the eventual course – which will be crucial for us again.
Any push further northwest will bring significant snow closer to us. Every push further south or east keeps all the snow away from us.
A system heading our way on Sunday night is initially on track to give us a more direct hit, so a few inches of snow then seems possible – stay tuned as changes could of course come this far.
Ready for some “normal” temperatures? What did you think about above normal time?
It will be gradual, but it is coming. Highs in the mid to above twenties (-4 to -2 degrees Celsius) Thursday through Saturday, then near freezing (0 degrees Celsius) on Sundays, and then in the mid to upper 30s (3 degrees Celsius) ) most of next week!
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