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Continued Cold with Snow Showers Near Lake Michigan

Light lake effect snow showers continue near Lake Michigan today. Temperatures will climb into the teens today but wind chills will stay near zero. Read More >

 

Temperatures averaged below normal across all of Michigan. The coldest departures from normal were over the Western Upper Peninsula where temperatures averaged more than 10 degrees below normal. 

 

Precipitation was below normal across all of the southern 2/3 of Lower Michigan.  The northern 1/3 of lower Michigan had above normal precipitation.

Traverse City had the greatest monthly precipitation of any NWS network climate reporting station in Lower Michigan with 6.57 inches. 

Snowfall fell in record or near record amounts across Iowa, Minnesota, and parts of Wisconsin and the Michigan Upper Peninsula. 

Marquette Michigan recorded  22.1" of snow in October, that now stands as there all time record snowfall for October.  The old record was 18.6" in 1979.