Wind chill advisory in effect from Thursday night through Friday morning
LANSING −Dangerously cold air will settle over southern lower Michigan from Thursday night through Saturday morning, forecasters said.
The National Weather Service issued a wind chill advisory for 11 p.m. Thursday to 9 a.m. Friday, saying wind-chill values could plunge to as low as 15 degrees below zero. People should dress warmly if they have to go outside over the next couple of days, forecasters said.
A fresh surge of cold and arctic air will produce lake effect snow showers beginning later today. The bulk of the snow will fall over the lakeshore counties. Some areas south of Grand Haven, and north of Muskegon could see 3-5 inches of snow with locally higher amounts. #wmiwx pic.twitter.com/xbmcZhEZLB
— NWS Grand Rapids (@NWSGrandRapids) February 2, 2023
Actual air temperatures will fall into the low single digits on Thursday and Friday nights, but gusty west or northwest winds will make it feel quite a bit colder than that.
Friday will stay cold all day, with highs of around 12 degrees, the weather service said. Warmer air will settle back in during the day on Saturday, with highs climbing back into the 30s.
This week's frigid weather is a reality check after weeks of unseasonably mild conditions.
Here is the January monthly climate summary. Highlights included it being in the the top 5 for warmest January on record. Very little snow fell during the first 3 weeks of the month and it was the cloudiest January in Grand Rapids since 2004. pic.twitter.com/Q7zyJ0GHv5
— NWS Grand Rapids (@NWSGrandRapids) February 1, 2023
Lansing's average temperature in January was 32.2 degrees. That's 8.3 degrees above normal and ranks among the five warmest Januarys on record, the weather service said. Precipitation was slightly below normal for the month at 1.94 inches.
Lansing city officials on Tuesday activated their Code Blue extreme cold weather plan, opening warming shelters from 5 p.m. Tuesday through 8 a.m. Sunday.
Contact Ken Palmer at kpalmer@lsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @KBPalm_lsj.
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