The storm systems are coming frequently now and for the next week. Let’s take each storm system one at a time. The next storm is an Alberta Clipper system that will give all of Michigan accumulations, but it will be heavier over the western third of Lower Michigan. The snow from this next system starts tonight.
Here’s the radar forecast from 9 p.m. tonight to 7 a.m. Saturday.
Let me show you the radar forecast for noon Friday. This says all of Lower Michigan will have widespread light snow. The darker blue along the Lake Michigan shoreline signifies moderate-to-heavy lake-effect snow.
By noon Friday we should have an inch or two of snow on all Michigan roads. It’s not a whopper snowstorm for Grand Rapids eastward into Lansing, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Bay City and the eastern part of Lower Michigan. I’d call it two to three inches of snow for most of us. Roads will be cold. Definitely expect slick roads developing during Friday.
For the western third of Lower Michigan it’s a somewhat different story, with a combination of the Alberta Clipper’s two to three inches of snow and the lake-effect snow of three to six inches of snow…