4Warn Weather – We’re tracking the first winter storm heading for Metro Detroit after a mild start to the season.
In our commitment to keep you and your family ahead of impactful weather, the weather team has declared a 4Warn Weather Alert Day for Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, and Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024.
Here’s a breakdown of what you can expect:
Overnight Monday
Clouds will stick around Tuesday through Thursday, and we expect winter weather to develop overnight Monday night into early on Tuesday morning as snow.
The track of the low-pressure center that will bring this storm to the region will dictate most things in terms of precipitation type for most of this event. The snow that does fall will be a heavy, wet snowfall, which will cause some travel problem on the commute to work/school Tuesday morning.
Tuesday afternoon
As of right now, this low-pressure center will work directly over Southeastern Michigan, which will draw in some warmer air, changing the snow over to rain showers as we work through Tuesday afternoon, and into Tuesday evening.
It does look like there would be a decent amount of rain possible after the changeover from snow to rain. High temperatures heading out of the 30s, into the lower 40s by Tuesday afternoon.
Wednesday
As colder air works back into the region after that low pressure center works off to the northeast, the rain will change back over to snow Tuesday night into early on Wednesday. We will keep the chance of rain and snow into the forecast on Wednesday.
High temperature is dropping back into the upper 30s by Wednesday afternoon.
It’s also going to be rather breezy as we work throughout the middle of the week with the system as well, when gusting to at least 35 MPH can be expected, which also adds another part of this winter storm. We are going to be keeping an eye on this as wind advisories may be needed to go along with this system into the middle of next week.
How much snow should you expect?
There is the potential for at least a few inches of snow to fall overnight Monday night into Tuesday Morning before we changeover from snow to rain. This would be a heavy, wet snow as we are going to have plenty of moisture to work with as this system moves through the region.
After the system moves off to the east, we will keep the chance of snow showers in the forecast on Thursday as well. High temperatures heading for the middle 30s on Thursday afternoon.