Monthly Archives: February 2018

High pressure will drift through the Great Lakes region today and tonight bringing dry weather and mainly clear skies. Highs today will reach the mid 40s to around 50 degrees. Southerly winds kicking in tonight will keep lows in most areas near or slightly above freezing. Highs on Tuesday will be well above normal (roughly 20 degrees above normals) with highs pushing well into the 50s. Low clouds and small chances for rain showers are expected on Wednesday. Highs will remain above normal on Wednesday in the upper 40s to low 50s. A widespread rain is expected on Thursday with the potential for some heavier rain across Southwest Lower Michigan. Today Sunny, with a high near 50. West southwest wind 6 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Monday Night Clear, with a low around 32. South southwest wind 7 to 9 mph. Tuesday Sunny, with a high near 57. Southwest wind 9 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Tuesday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 39. South southwest wind around 8 mph. Wednesday A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. Wednesday Night A 50 percent…

A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON.  Wind gusts to 50 mph are expected into early afternoon.      A rapidly deepening storm system will bring very strong winds with some gusts near 50 mph this morning into early this afternoon. High pressure follows for tonight into Tuesday. That will bring well above normal temperatures to the area by Tuesday with highs in the mid to upper 50s. Then the combination of stalled frontal system and low coming out of the Southern Plains will bring showers Wednesday but a steady rain, possibly heavy at times, Thursday. That may end as some light snow Thursday night or Friday morning. There may be enough rain with this to cause additional river rises. Today Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 46. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 22 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 41 mph. Tonight Mostly clear, with a low around 30. West southwest wind 9 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Monday Sunny, with a high near 50. West southwest wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Monday Night Clear,…

FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR JACKSON.     Our next rain event moves through the area tonight with a few isolated thunderstorms, the heaviest rainfall misses us to the south and northwest. Enough cold air follows this system so that we may see some flurries or sprinkles during the mid morning hours of Sunday then skies should clear by mid afternoon. Mostly sunny and warmer than normal conditions are expected Monday into Tuesday. A weak cold front may bring showers later Tuesday into Wednesday. Then a system from the southern plains moves into the area to bring more rain, later Wednesday into Thursday. This may be enough to cause more flooding issues. Today A 20 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 39. East wind 6 to 13 mph. Tonight Showers before 1am, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm between 1am and 4am, then showers likely after 4am. Temperature falling to near 35 by 9pm, then rising to around 45 during the remainder of the night. East wind 13 to 17 mph becoming south after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter…