Weather reporting

[Colonel Flagg]

Any thoughts on the Friday-Saturday system? Forecast discussion says winds could gust to 45mph. That could spell trouble for DTE.

[edj]

Any thoughts on the Friday-Saturday system? Forecast discussion says winds could gust to 45mph. That could spell trouble for DTE.

Could spell trouble? They can't handle 15mph winds!

[Mega Hertz]

We lose power here if the dog farts too hard. Fuckers.

[Colonel Flagg]

Funny, how only the metro Detroit counties are omitted from the Winter Storm Watch. AccuWeather says 4 to 8 inches, NWS says less than an inch. It'll be interesting to see who's right.

[bmw]

Gonna be an interesting storm here where I'm at in northeast Michigan as just like with the last storm, there looks to be some (relatively speaking) warm air that is going to wrap in from the east and probably mix some rain in with the snow, in particular overnight Friday night.

The slushy snow from the last storm is still fully coating the tree branches up here as we didn't quite get warm enough yesterday to melt it, and that looks to be the case today. Even a few degrees above freezing today would help. My concern is if those branches are still covered at the start of this event and we get more of this wet, heavy snow and then suddenly a temperature plunge while it is still snowing on Saturday that we're going to have very widespread power outages up here.

Here is the 7 AM Saturday morning temperature forecast map.



Then a 5-15 degree temperature drop within the next 6 hours.

[TC Talks]

Traverse City goes to 9⁰ overnight next week.

[SD45]

DTE has nearly 23,000 customers out at 7pm Friday.

[TC Talks]

3" and 15mph winds so far. Nothing special yet, but 13" on Saturday with 50mph may crimpy social plans.

[Radio Guy]

DTE has nearly 23,000 customers out at 7pm Friday.

At 8 PM 61K without power

[Mega Hertz]

Looks to be about six inches of heavy snow here in Brighton, which seems to have tapered off. No power outages yet in the area.

The schools called and said they were shutting their doors AT 5pm. Not a wise move, as not only do people have to figure out a way to get to their kids during heavy snowfall, but we already have too many people in an infrastructure that was outdated in 1970. Clusterfuck doesn't even begin to describe it.