Another Taste Of Cold Shoulder...

Good Evening!

As we wind down with some clouds and a few flurries, you;ll want to settle in and get the extra blankets out, because we spend some time in the deep freeze for the next day or so!  Let's take a deeper dive and see what we have going on...

MORE NUMBING COLD:  The next 36-48 hours will see bitterly cold readings in Michigan, and our area is no exception.  Temperatures will be in the single digits for lows in plenty of places tonight and tomorrow night, with daytime highs struggling to claw into the teens.  In fact, looking ahead the next several days, when average temperatures are typically in the mid to upper 30's, good luck seeing anything higher than the mid 20's.  The really depressing part of it all?  The cold weather looks like it will hang on into almost Mid-March.  It will be around at least through part of the first week of March unless something radically changes in the next few days.  The models have our lows in single digits and even below zero, with the warmest readings at night right around 14 degrees!  Now that's cold!

A TOUCH OF SNOW...UNTIL THE WEEKEND:  Northwest winds will bring some lake effect snow back to the snow box, even with the cold air.  Additionally, an upper impulse may bring some flurries or even light snow on Thursday.  I don't really see us getting a lot of snow right now, it's just so cold, and there's not really a dynamic system to upset the atmosphere enough for heavy duty snow.  That will be this weekend, when we look at a storm coming out of the Plains.  I don't know how much snow or the exact timing yet, still too early.  It could be as soon as Saturday PM, or as late as Sunday PM and perhaps into Monday.  I'll have a better idea of what the timing of that will be, along with snow totals here tomorrow I think.

ANY WARMING ON THE WAY?:  Regrettably, no.  Temperatures look to run between 10-17 degrees below normal right through the end of the month, and into March.  I hope that this changes, but evidence to the contrary is in short supply right now.

Here's the forecast:

I'll have a complete look at the extended forecast and a clearer picture (I hope) on the snow threat for the weekend.  Have a great night!  Blessings.