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Snowy, Cold Weather Blasts Great Lakes

August 14, 2017
UPDATED By WeatherBug Sr. Meteorologist, James West
The start of April has been anything but spring-like across the Great Lakes. Instead of pulling out the gardening tools out of shed, residents will need to grab the snow shovels instead today.

Pockets of snow will fall across Upper Midwest and Great Lakes today, with 1 to 4 inches of heavy wet, snow accumulating from the Minnesota Arrowhead into parts of northern and north-central Michigan through this afternoon.

Winter Weather Advisories extend from the Minnesota Arrowhead across Upper Michigan and into most of north-central Michigan. Included are Duluth, Minn., and Marquette, Flint and Gaylord, Mich. Travel may become slippery along parts of Interstates 35 and 75 at times through tonight.

Unfortunately, the storm bringing today’s snowy scenario to the northern Great Lakes will also open up the floodgates for another unseasonably cold outbreak from the Upper Midwest to the Ohio Valley and much of the East Coast north of the Carolinas late this week and next weekend.

High temperatures will average 10 to 20 degrees below normal from the Twin Cities on Friday to Washington, D.C., by Saturday afternoon. Not only will highs struggle to climb out of the upper 30s to middle 40s, but many spots will see snowflakes falling from the sky as well.