A winter storm watch has been issued for much of the southern half of Lower Michigan for the high likelihood of more than five inches of snow.
The winter storm watch timeframe gives you a great idea when hazardous winter road conditions will occur. The winter storm watch goes into effect at 1 p.m. Wednesday and continues through to 7 a.m. Thursday.
Here is the location of the winter storm watch, indicated with the blue shaded counties.
At the moment the southern two rows of counties over south-central and southeast Lower are not in the winter storm watch. The reasoning is six inches of snow is winter storm watch criteria. The zone from Jackson to Ann Arbor and Detroit will possibly have some freezing rain and sleet mixed with the snow, cutting down the snow accumulation. Some of the very latest data is just a touch colder in the Ann Arbor and Detroit areas. There could still be four to five inches of snow in those two cities, which would be just an inch too low to justify a winter storm warning. However, the freezing rain and sleet mixed with five inches of snow should eventually put the Detroit and Ann Arbor areas in a winter storm warning…