In South Haven a garage roof was destroyed by a falling tree. The heavy snowfall combined with high winds caused widespread power outages due to tree limbs falling and lines breaking. From three to seven inches of snow fell across Ottawa and Kent Counties in a six hour period. A tornado near Kingsland in Eaton County kills cattle and horses.ġ940: The Armistice Day storm strikes with hurricane force winds, producing blizzard conditions across Minnesota and mountainous waves on Lake Michigan, where five vessels are lost, claiming 66 lives.ġ995: A strong cold front passage is followed by high winds and lake effect snow. Another tornado hits southeast of Battle Creek in Calhoun County, leveling barns and taking the roofs off homes. In Michigan, a tornado kills two people and injures 21 others as it destroys five factories and 21 homes in the northern part of Owosso in Shiawassee County. Within an hour, survivors of the storm were digging out in near-blizzard conditions with zero degree temperatures. Nine people are killed as a violent tornado hits Janesville, Wisconsin. November 11ġ911: A tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest, killing more than a dozen people. A waterspout on Lake Michigan briefly moved inland near Muskegon, but rapidly dissipated and caused no damage. The high winds literally blew much of the water out of Saginaw Bay, with the water level dropping several feet and large sections of the Bay becoming dry land for a time. Over 167,000 homes were without power and cleanup efforts were extensive as many homes and businesses suffered roof and siding damage and thousands of trees were blown down. The cargo was to be delivered to Detroit, but the ship ran into winds of at least 60 mph and high waves and foundered at about 730 pm north of Whitefish Point.ġ998: A November storm lashes the Great Lakes with wind gusts up to 90 mph. The ore carrier left Superior, Wisconsin on November 9 loaded with 26,116 tons of taconite pellets. The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior during the storm, with a crew of 29 men. A tornado was spun up by the storm, damaging mobile homes and a barn in Allegan County. Outside of the lakeshore counties, 1 to 2 inch amounts will spread across Central Lower Michigan with an inch or less in other areas of Southwest Lower Michigan.ġ975: A powerful storm brought high winds across Lower Michigan, toppling trees and power lines. 3-5 inches of snow is forecast in these areas, with some isolated 6 inch amounts possible. The heaviest snow by far will be from Muskegon County up the shoreline through Oceana and Mason Counties including Muskegon, Whitehall, Pentwater, Hart, Scottville and Ludington. Snow will pick up in intensity this afternoon and continue both tonight and into Thursday morning. The big story are the snowfall amounts along the lakeshore counties shown below from the NWS. Yesterday our high was 24° with trace amounts of snow. "But right now, we have to get through typical Michigan.A balmy 14° this morning at 7am in Otsego with a feels like temp of 8°. “It's supposed to be 70 degrees this coming weekend," Harbin said.
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Ho, ho, ho," driver Jennifer Caddick said. Monday serves as a reminder that in Michigan, spring can feel like winter and summer all in the same week. That’s good news for drivers, but not good news for John and that potential snow day.Įven though the day after Easter feels more like the day after Christmas, there’s hope for warm weather ahead. “They’re fine," driver Nikki Goolsby from Lake Orion said. "I'm looking forward to a snow day.”īut as the snow fell during the evening commute, mostly wet roads were warm enough to stay that way. "When you looked outside and saw this weather, what was going through your mind?" 7 Action News reporter Brett Kast asked. But that didn’t stop teenagers from having high hopes. “It's beautiful, but I'm ready for it to be warm and done,” Sierra Harbin of Ortonville said.įor most of metro Detroit, only a few inches stuck to the ground. From Ann Arbor to Highland Park to Waterford, the snow kept falling.
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