Heavy snow falls tonight

DETROIT – A winter weather advice applies to Lenawee, Monroe, Washtenaw and Wayne counties from midnight, noon tonight to Sunday 10 pm.

Welcome to Saturday night, Motown.

Tune your snow blowers or get nimble to shovel snow. Snow is on its way before the weekend is over. This evening will remain dry and cold. Temperatures remain well below freezing throughout the region tonight. Snow arrives shortly after midnight. Roads and sidewalks get more treacherous on Sundays, with the heaviest snow during breakfast.

Saturday night will be cloudy and cold with constant temperatures in the upper 20’s. Our next blizzards will come to our southwest. The first flakes fall south of I-94, in Lenawee and Monroe counties, at 10 p.m. and beyond.

Saturday night will snow in Detroit and the rest of Southeast Michigan shortly after midnight and through Sunday morning. Nightly lows will be in the mid-1920s.

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The snow moves from south to north at night. After our South Zone, Detroit and Ann Arbor roads get smoother, the areas north of Eight Mile Road get snowier in the early morning hours of Sunday. The towns of Flint, Lapeer and Port Huron will drop snow at breakfast on Sunday.

It will snow and be cold on Sunday. Snow falls the hardest on Sunday morning. Light to moderate snow consistently falls late Sunday morning and most of the afternoon. The snow is spread a bit more late on Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening. The highs will be in the low 30s.

On Sunday evening it will be less snowy, but it will remain cold – so roads remain treacherous. Then the wind from the north comes through the counterclockwise circulation around the low pressure area. The wind at Lake Huron, which is mostly liquid, will cause snow showers and snow showers on Monday.

Accumulation will be greater where snow starts first. Neighborhoods south of I-94 will receive 10 to 15 inches of snow; isolates spots, more than fifteen centimeters. From I-94 (to the south) and M-59 (to the north), Detroit, Westland, Ann Arbor to Howell, Pontiac, Shelby Township and Mt. Clemens will gain five to ten centimeters. One to four inches of snow will fall north of M-59.

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The maximum temperature will be near 30 degrees Monday afternoon, as lake effect snow will add another one to five inches of snow over most of the area.

Tuesdays and Wednesdays are getting sunnier, giving Detroiters time to clean up and recover. Remember not to overexert yourself. Take the pace and take frequent breaks while clearing snow and ice. Highlights are in the low 30s, mid-week, with mostly to partially sunny skies.

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