Lake effect snow impacted the lakeshore counties of west Michigan as north northwest flow over relatively warm waters of Lake Superior and Michigan resulted in lake effect snow. Up to a foot of snow was reported across portions of Van Buren county, and there were several reports of seven to ten inches of snow.
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The episode as NWS GRR wrote it up.
Lake effect snow impacted the lakeshore counties of west Michigan as north northwest flow over relatively warm waters of Lake Superior and Michigan resulted in lake effect snow. Up to a foot of snow was reported across portions of Van Buren county, and there were several reports of seven to ten inches of snow.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 lake-effect snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Up to ten inches of snow was reported across portions of Allegan county.
The Van Buren county road commission reported that up to 12 inches of snow fell in Covert.
A trained spotter in Ludington reported that eight inches of snow fell.
A co-op observer three miles west southwest of Hart reported that 8.6 inches of snow fell.
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