There is still some light snow to fall

DETROIT – The last major winter storm just grazed us on Thursday, as expected, leaving a fluffy inch or two over the area.

Light snow and snow showers will gradually recede and mostly cloudy skies (meaning some of us can get the occasional sun) will predominate during the daylight hours until scattered snow showers develop late afternoon into evening.

The peaks reach the mid-20s (-3 degrees Celsius), with light northwest winds from 5 to 10 mph turning into a westerly wind in the afternoon – it’s this shift west that will energize the Lake Michigan snow machine with lake effects and some snow showers later in the state.

Today’s sunrise is at 7:23 am and today’s sunset is at 6:11 pm

Snow showers abate on Friday evenings, with mostly cloudy skies. Lows in the low teens (-11 degrees Celsius).

The skies should turn partly cloudy on Saturday, with maximum temperatures in the mid-20s (-3 degrees Celsius) … a great day to get out and play in the snow!

Partly cloudy Saturday night, with single digit lows (-15 to -13 degrees Celsius).

Hopefully we’ll start our Sunday with some sunshine, but the sky gets cloudy as the morning progresses. However, the maximum temperature should reach the low 30s (0 degrees Celsius) – another great day to play in the snow!

The next storm is still on track to reach us on Sunday evening.

However, the highest-level disturbance that this surface system will generate won’t cross the west coast until Saturday morning, so only then will our computer models take advantage of the direct observations of our land-based weather balloon network (called radio probes). Until then, I can’t really be sure about a few details.

Snow will develop – that’s a certainty – but the big question is the thermal profile of the lower atmosphere. It still looks like some of us will see a transition from snow to icy rain and rain, but whoever gets that switch is still in the air (no pun intended – really – those words just got out – no way ‘Me don’t want to know what’s going on in my head).

But I see enough suggestions from the models to think there will be a switchover for at least the southern two-thirds of our area, so snow volumes look less impressive now – maybe an inch or so in total from Sunday night to Monday morning. If something changes radically and we all stay snow, the amount of snow will naturally go up.

And for those of you worried about making another return to the freezer, stop worrying. I don’t see anything quite like the temperature regime we just got out of for the next two weeks, which will take us to March, where those Arctic blasts become even less likely.

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