Last Wednesday, February 22, 2023 I suggest there would be three significant storm between the 23rd of February and the end of this this current week. As it turns out, 5 days later the story as not changed at all. Clearly we got the storm on the 23th. That was a major ice storm from Kalamazoo to Jackson and as far north as Lansing. Below are the precipitation totals for that storm, snowfall totals and the ice accumulations.
Today we are currently getting the second storm I suggested would happen on the 27th. This has brought between a half inch and one and one half inches of precipitation to large area of Southwest Michigan. The has been 2 to 5 inches of snow from Mount Pleasant northward too.
Below are the maps for precipitation, snowfall and ice accumulation for today, as of 2 pm.
As for the storm I suggested would occur late this week, that still looks to be on track too.
The (thanks to Pivotal Weather) chart below shows the 24 hour total snow forecast from both the GFS (left) and ECMWF (right) between Friday at 7 am and Saturday and 7 am. It should be noted that the GFS has been very consistent with the track and snowfall over the past 5 days, while the ECMWF has had this storm tracking to our south. Only that last 24 hours has the ECMWF has the snow reaching our area.
The thing for us to watch with this storm is, will the models keep tracking it farther north over time? If so this too may be just another rain, sleet and ice event for us. Nonetheless this storm as the potion to bring significant impact to Southwest Michigan.
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