4F this morning at home. Nice dry commute but large flakes flying again up here at the work site. It looks like mid-winter. Not gonna lie, I think old man winter got p*ssed when summer-like temps snuck north a week ago. Kicked it out and slammed the door! Hopefully a plan to be downstate Saturday seeing some 60's works out. The ice is horrid too with many co-workers expecting to be out for the rest of the week. Businesses on the main hwy in Houghton Lake did have power this morning (priority ofc).

After a BN day today, looks like a very normal typical end to March coming up. Nothing too cold, and nothing too warm. At least for SMI. 40's and 50's. Blah, but hopefully some sun. Time to get seeds going indoors for the garden.

The snow depth at ORD was 1" yesterday and the official high of 24F makes it one of the coldest St Patty's days in over 8 Decades (1941). The avg high is 48F and Chicago only managed to get half of that yesterday! Oh, and there was an additional 0.1" of Snow that fell before midnight.

The overnight low here in MBY was 19, the current temperature with cloudy skies is now up to 22. The next 7 days will see a roller coaster of temperatures with chances of snow, freezing rain and rain. Highs will range from the upper 30’s to maybe the mid 60’s lows will range mid 20’s to around 40. Any snowfall could see light accumulations. KEY MESSAGES LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS TODA ICE ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING RAIN CHANCES FRIDAY, POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT WARMUP SATURDAY RAIN TO SNOW SAT NIGHT/SUN WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES Detailed Forecast Today Snow showers likely, mainly between 8am and 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 39. South wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Tonight A slight chance of freezing rain after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. South southwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 10%. Thursday A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly between 7am and 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 48. Light and variable wind. Thursday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. Light and variable wind. Friday A 20 percent chance of showers before 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. West southwest wind 5 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Friday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36. Saturday Mostly sunny, with a high near 59. Saturday Night A chance of rain and snow showers before 2am, then a chance of rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40. Sunday A chance of rain showers, mixing with snow after 8am, then gradually ending. Partly sunny, with a high near 54. Sunday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 27. Monday Mostly sunny, with a high near 44. Monday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 26. Tuesday Partly sunny, with a high near 49. The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 22/17 that high of 22 was the 4th coldest high for any March 17th at Grand Rapids and the coldest high since 1939. There was a trace of snowfall the highest wind gust was 34 MPH out of the W. For today the average H/L is 45/27 the record high of 75 was in 1903 and 2012 the coldest high of 17 was in 1939 the record low of 5 was in 1923 the warmest low of 54 was in 2012. The wettest was 1.06” in 1899 the most snowfall of 5.7” was in 1965 the most snow on the ground was 13” in 1904. Today the sunrise is at 7:49 AM and the sunset is at 7:52 PM. Some weather history for March 18th 1925, The great Tri-State Tornado occurred, the most deadly tornado in U.S. history. The tornado claimed 695 lives (including 234 at Murphysboro IL and 148 at West Frankfort IL), and caused seventeen million dollars property damage. It cut a swath of destruction 219 miles long and as much as a mile wide from east central Missouri to southern Indiana between 1 PM and 4 PM. The tornado leveled a school in West Frankfort IL, and picked up sixteen students setting them down unharmed 150 yards away. Seven other tornadoes claimed an additional 97 lives that day. (David Ludlum) 1971, High winds accompanied a low pressure system from the Rocky Mountains to the Great Lakes. Winds gusted to 100 mph at Hastings NE, and reached 115 mph at Hays KS. High winds caused two million dollars damage in Kansas. Fire burned 50,000 forest acres in eastern Oklahoma. (17th-19th) (The Weather Channel)

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Or like some protection layer in the atmosphere has been lowered. I don't think those far south aurora borealis is beyond this. The SW, US has been a hot spot for Global Warming for a while though.. people were always saying PHX's records were Urban heat island... but the whole SW, US is heating up the same now. Keep in mind, PHX is probably going to break its March record by +4F. This is before March, Dec-Feb: The difference between 1 to 2 is almost the same as 2 to 20! And number 2 is last year! lol Sunsets never used to glow purple on the horizon like that.