A few flakes today, more snow this weekend

DETROIT – As expected, the snow on Thursday night has been mostly insignificant throughout the area.

Many of us have seen nothing but a gust of wind, while some may have received a very light dust, especially near and north of I-69.

Once these light flakes move away, the rest of our Final Friday, as Brandon likes to call it, should be mostly cloudy, with highs perhaps reaching the mid-20s (-5 degrees Celsius). The wind will be blowing from the northeast at 5-10 mph.

Today’s sunrise is at 7:33 a.m. and today’s sunset at 6:02 p.m.

Mostly cloudy Friday night, with lows in mid-teens (-9 degrees Celsius). Some of us will develop light snow, especially in the south, late at night.

Snow is likely to loosen on Saturday, continuing until Saturday evening. This still looks like a 1 to 2 inch snowfall. Saturday highs in the twenties lows (-6 degrees Celsius) and Saturday night lows retreating to single digits (-13 degrees Celsius).

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Partly cloudy to begin on Sunday and then cloudy. Highs in teens (-8 to -7 degrees Celsius).

The core of this current Arctic wave reaches Sunday night and Monday, with Sunday night lows to single digits (-16 degrees Celsius) and Monday highs only among mid-teens (-9 degrees Celsius). There could be some light snow on Monday.

Models disagree heavily in Tuesday’s storm. They agree that we will get snow, but they strongly disagree about where the surface will be at low pressure and that makes a big difference in the amount of snow we receive. The GFS model provides us with maybe 3 inches of snow, while the ECMWF provides us with 4 to 8 inches.