Metro Detroit weather update: Snow chances this weekend, early next week
Brett Collar, Meteorologist
The Michigan weather radar on Jan. 20, 2022. (WDIV)
DETROIT – Here is the Metro Detroit weather forecast update for Jan. 20, 2022, afternoon and evening.
Cold sticking around
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Lows Thursday night will drop into single digits, and though winds are calmer, wind chills at times will be close to zero.
There’s a very gradual warming trend through early next week, but we’re only talking upper 20s by Monday.
Some snow this weekend
Confidence is growing that we’ll get a light snow accumulation later Saturday into Sunday.
That means a few tenths of an inch for most of us, but some spots could see up to an inch.
More snow early next week
The more impactful snow comes later Monday into Tuesday.
Long-range models are still a little split on the track of the low and, as a result, a little split on snow totals.
It looks like we’ll get a few inches that we’ll have to shovel, with the higher amounts likely being north of I-94, but still some fine tuning still needs to be done with this over the coming days.
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The National Weather Service likes to round up normals to whole numbers for climatological purposes, but when you look at the numbers down to tenths, the coldest is 31.8 degrees.
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