The National Weather Service in Grand Rapids said areas of Michigan saw as much as 2 feet of snow this past week. Here's where the highest totals were.
Lake effect snow is expected to fall across much of Michigan this week as high winds sweep across Lake Superior, Lake Michigan.
Snow will continue into the overnight hours before winds bring in more lake-effect snow Thursday morning on a northwesterly wind.
In addition to the cold, lake-effect snow that began Sunday will continue through Tuesday night, creating icy, snow-covered roadways. Between 7 a.m. Monday and 7 a.m. Tuesday, a widespread 6 inches of lake-effect snow is expected along and west of US-131, with isolated higher amounts of up to 10 inches likely in Ottawa and Allegan counties.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Lake-effect snow and frigid wind chills will stick around West Michigan Tuesday. Cold weather advisories and winter weather advisories are in place. Accumulation will be slow, but steady through Wednesday. TODAY Very cold, snow bands, blowing snow HIGH 5° WIND CHILL -10° to -20° WIND WSW 5-15 G20 mph
Up to 10 inches of additional snow could fall from Benton Harbor north through Muskegon to Ludington, Manistee, Northport and Harbor Springs. Also notice our models are starting to show a two or three inch snow around the Saginaw Bay region.
Grand Rapids Public Schools, Grand Valley State University and Grand Rapids Community College are among those with snow days on Tuesday, Jan. 21.
If it feels like lake-effect snow has constantly been in West Michigan’s forecast for the last several days - it has. The National Weather Service (NWS) in Grand Rapids released a long list of 96-hour snow totals today.
Michigan residents could see winds as strong as 55 mph Monday, the National Weather Service said. The weather service said a wind advisory is in effect for most of Michigan from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday because of the potential for winds gusting between 45 mph and 55 mph.
More:Lake effect snow is in Michigan's forecast ... leading to hazardous driving conditions Tuesday morning, said The Grand Rapids office on X this morning. There is a winter weather advisory ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — As an Arctic blast continues to freeze West Michigan, schools have started to announce closures for Tuesday. This is the second day in a row that some schools have closed with several closing on Monday due to the weather or in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Indications from our forecast models show that we should end up around normal or average for temperatures as we head into the first week of February. See image below. Normal/average highs have us around 30 degrees.