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Isolated Showers and Storms Today, Then Dry and Less Humid

A passing shower or storm is still possible today. Less humid conditions will develop this afternoon though as northwest winds increase to 10 to 20 mph. A stretch of dry and pleasant weather is in store through the weekend. 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.