Woke up and saw we have a coating of snow here. Nothing falling now though and band seems to be weakening on the radar. Actually looks like much more snow at the Snoqualmie Parkway/Hwy 18 exit on I-90 than we have here. The freeway is actually snow covered there.

It has been a mild overnight with the low and current temperature here in MBY of 49 it looks like it has officially got down to 47 at GRR with clear skies. The week will start off on the warms side with highs today and tomorrow in the low 60’s before cooling down with highs in the low 40’s lows with range from the upper 40’s before dropping down into the upper 30’s to upper 20’s there is a chance of some thunder and maybe some snow in the week ahead. KEY MESSAGES STRONG TO SEVERE POSSIBLE TUESDAY EVENING/NIGHT LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY LIGHT WINTRY MIX ACROSS CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN WITH SYSTEM CLIPPER MAY BRING ACCUMULATING SNOW THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY Detailed Forecast Today Sunny, with a high near 63. Southwest wind 15 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Tonight Increasing clouds, with a low around 47. Calm wind becoming east 5 to 7 mph after midnight. Tuesday A 20 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63. East wind around 9 mph becoming south southwest in the morning. Tuesday Night A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 8pm. Low around 39. East wind 10 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. Wednesday Rain showers before 5pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers. High near 43. East northeast wind 9 to 11 mph becoming north northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. Wednesday Night A chance of rain and snow showers before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Thursday Mostly sunny, with a high near 41. Thursday Night A chance of snow showers before 2am, then rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Friday Rain and snow showers, mainly before 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. Breezy. Friday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 24. Saturday A chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 41. Saturday Night Rain and snow showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 30. Sunday Rain and snow showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 44. The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 56/34 there was no rainfall and no snowfall. For the month of March there has not been any snowfall yet for the season Grand Rapids is still at 74.7”. The highest wind speed was 47 MPH out of the SW. For today the average HL is 42/25 the record high of 68 was in 2000 the coldest high of 14 was in 2003 the record low of -7 was in 1996 the warmest low of 54 was in 2016. The wettest on 1.35” fell as the record snowfall amount of 8.2” in 1998. The most snow on the ground was 16” in 2014. Some weather history for March 9th 1987, Gale force winds ushered arctic air into the north central U.S. Some places were 50 degrees colder than the previous day. Northeast winds, gusting to 60 mph, produced 8 to 15 foot waves on Lake Michigan causing more than a million dollars damage along the southeastern shoreline of Wisconsin. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1990, Evening thunderstorms produced severe weather in West Texas. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 71 mph at Lubbock, and golf ball size hail was reported at several other locations. Strong thunderstorm winds injured two persons north of the town of Canyon. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

Made it worse? Sunsets can't be bad... at the lowest level it's just unremarkable or neutral. No one says that was a terrible sunset tonight... it was done all wrong. But even a day with no clouds can produce a spectacular sunset with very thin cirrus that becomes illuminated and visible as the sun is setting. Sometimes those are the most incredible sunrises and sunsets of all.

Getting some hail here.