The northern fringe of a weather system will start overnight across southern Michigan. Rain and snow will change over to all snow. It’s not a big snowstorm. It won’t produce freezing rain, but the roads may turn icy as Arctic air slips into southeast Lower Michigan.
Here’s the radar forecast showing the precipitation developing right overhead tonight. We’ve warmed to 35 degrees to 40 degrees this afternoon. The warmth at the surface and aloft should make it rain for the first several hours of the weather maker.
The latest data shows only a couple of hours of snow left once rain turns to snow. This limits the total accumulation which did look like two to three inches with earlier data. Now the total precipitation is half rain, limiting the snowfall.
The snowfall map shows this isn’t a snowstorm, but rather a light snow covering much of southeast and south-central Lower Michigan.
It should be a one inch to two inch snow from Jackson to Ann Arbor to Oakland County and the Thumb…