DETROIT – Good Thursday afternoon!
It was a record snowfall in Detroit with 6.2 inches falling at Metro Airport on Wednesday, which was the most snow we’ve ever received on Groundhog Day. But don’t worry, the snow story will not repeat like the movie did.
Snow showers moved back in this morning after a lull in snowfall overnight. Treacherous travel conditions will persist, so watch out for ice and areas of blowing snow all around Metro Detroit.
Temperatures have dipped into the upper teens to near 20 degrees with wind chills in the single digits, if not colder. Be sure to layer and bundle up, as the winds will be cranking today.
Our high temps later today will only get back into the low 20s. Winds moving N at 10-20 mph, gusting to 25 mph, will create dangerous wind chills that can cause frostbite in 30 minutes or less. Winds will also blow snow around, which leads to hidden ice, snow drifts and no relief from our terrible travel conditions.
We will likely see another 1-3 inches of snow today. Snow will be coming and going throughout the day.
You can check out an interactive radar below.
Today’s sunset is at 5:50 p.m.
Arctic air moving in
More arctic air will be moving into Metro Detroit as we head into the weekend.
We will be waking up to single digit temps on Friday, with a little bit of a biting wind bringing wind chills near zero degrees and even subzero. Mostly cloudy skies will become partly cloudy through the mid and late afternoon, as highs settle in the mid-to-upper teens. A lighter wind will move NW at 5-12 mph, and wind chills will stay in the single digits to low teens.
We’ll see a bitter cold start to our weekend on Saturday with morning lows in the single digits, or colder, under clear skies. Brrr! More and more sunshine is expected during the day with a balance of some cloud cover. Highs will hit the low 20s with a gentle wind moving SW at 5-10 mph.
Sunday will be a bit more cloudy, and that will keep our lows from dropping dramatically. We will wake up to temps in the teens and see highs in the mid-to-upper 20s under partly sunny skies.
There is some light snow expected to move in Monday, but it won’t likely stack up to much more than a dusting to an inch. Stay tuned.
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