More snow headed for Ann Arbor: Up to 3 inches expected overnight Friday
5:30 p.m. update: The National Weather Service has revised its forecast and is now predicting less than half an inch of snow Friday during the day and 1 to 2 inches overnight Friday.
Despite the groundhog’s forecast, winter just won’t go away.
A fast-moving storm system could dump 3 or more inches of snow on the Ann Arbor area Friday and Friday night, the National Weather Service says. And next week will bring a chance of snow showers every day through Tuesday.
The Ann Arbor area is expected to get 1 to 3 inches of snow overnight Friday.
The precipitation could start Friday morning with snow and freezing drizzle. After 1 p.m., forecasters expect snow, possibly mixed with rain. During the day, accumulation will amount to less than one inch, the weather service says. The high temperature will be about 43 degrees.
Snow, possibly mixed with rain, will continue Friday night and will become all snow after midnight, forecasters say. Accumulation of 1 to 3 inches is expected. The chance of precipitation is 90 percent, the weather service said. An overnight low of 26 is expected.
Saturday will bring a mostly cloudy day with a high near 38 degrees. Sunday will be partly sunny with a high near 33.
Snow showers are possible Sunday night and every day through Tuesday.
For updated weather conditions and forecasts anytime, check AnnArbor.com's weather page.
Comments
JSS
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 2:45 p.m.
A2.com should really update the headline - especially if it's on page 1 - when the forecast changes so markedly. People don't necessarily feel the need to read a whole article about weather, but they see the headline, and may take the headline as accurate news, which is obviously not so in this case. Seems to me I've seen this situation more than once on A2.com.
Urban Sombrero
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 12:17 p.m.
I'm so ready for spring! I want to start my garden! I want to sit outside and complain about the mosquitoes! I guess I shouldn't be surprised. My first husband and I were married in early May. We had several anniversaries with snow on the ground, or cold weather. It is Michigan, after all. Still, bring on the warm weather! I am more than ready.
Urban Sombrero
Sun, Mar 17, 2013 : 2:02 a.m.
@Bertha, I refuse to put anything in the ground until Memorial Day or after. I've been burned one too many times.
justcurious
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 1:12 p.m.
Nononononononononnononono! mosquitoes. That was the one good thing about gardening last year...hardly any mosquitoes.
Bertha Venation
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 12:36 p.m.
I grew up here, but lived in Virginia for 30 years. We used to plant on April 1st. Here, it's more like the mid-end of May.
jns131
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 4:13 a.m.
So we get a snow day on what? Saturday? Maybe. All I know is that it has snowed on Easter. Not much but it has snowed. Maybe one more snow day before we head out on spring break. Now that would be nice.
huh7891
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 12:03 a.m.
A forecast of snow is better than last years weather...tornado. I rather be shoveling the drive...than be in the basement listening to my home be destroyed again.
brian
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 10:51 p.m.
Don't worry, it will come and go in the blink of an eye, well about 20,000 blinks of an eye. Come on summer.
Rick Stevens
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 9:54 p.m.
A2.com hype (again) - bet we don't see more than .5 of an inch.
tdw
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 1:12 a.m.
Fun governor
Cindy Heflin
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 9:05 p.m.
The latest prediction from the National Weather Service predicts slightly less snow than its earlier forecast. It now says we can expect less than half an inch of snow during the day Friday and 1 to 2 inches Friday night.
Terry Star21
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 9:37 p.m.
Vegas odds....1.68, maximum.
WalkingJoe
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 9:30 p.m.
Cindy, this time of year snow is snow and I think the consensus is, we're all just a little tired of it.
deletedcomment
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 8:22 p.m.
The title should read "More snow headed for Ann Arbor: Up to 3 crashes expected overnight Friday"
Bertha Venation
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 12:35 p.m.
HA! You're so right! Thanks for the laugh!
Kyle Mattson
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 7:50 p.m.
You can all blame this on me, I stopped at the car wash last to clean all the salt off my car. I should have known better and waited...
Bertha Venation
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 12:34 p.m.
hmmm. Thanks, Kyle...... GIT 'IM GIRLS!!!
jns131
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 4:15 a.m.
This is why you don't do anything until after April 1. It might snow in April? But rarely. Boy are you guys keyed up to get rid of winter. March is not done with us yet folks. So you better bring out those snow blowers again.
WalkingJoe
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 9:27 p.m.
Ok, we'll blame you and PittsfieldTwp. ;-)
simply amazed
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 8:11 p.m.
Me too. I'm sorry.
Top Cat
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 7:41 p.m.
I learned the hard way, when I first moved to Michigan, that Winter is never really, really, really over until April 7.
Chester Drawers
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 1:13 p.m.
I have seen snow in Ann Arbor in every month except July and August!
ShawnS
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 12:17 a.m.
We've had recent history of later snow than that: A2 had 3 inches of snow on April 18th, 2011
deeski
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 11:40 p.m.
I grew up in AA and it snowed on my birthday once...June 6!
Paul
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 10:59 p.m.
April snow is "fun" cause you know it will melt away in a few days
Redleg
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 10:10 p.m.
Why April 7th? Because the biggest single day snowfall (for this area) was recorded on April 6th-- Granted that was the 1880's , but an old Detroit news account reported that 24 inches of snow was recorded in 9 or so hours... Prior to this, Detroit (and I suppose Ann Arbor) was experiencing a nice week of spring weather......
Lynn Liston
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 8:07 p.m.
Not even then!
djacks24
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 7:57 p.m.
Why April 7th?
Bertha Venation
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 7:27 p.m.
Guess I'd better keep the plough on the old "you know what."
Bertha Venation
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 12:32 p.m.
OOOO! You're RIGHT! Thanks for the reminder, tdw!
tdw
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 8:08 p.m.
Don't forget to put the chains and snow tires back on
djacks24
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 7:21 p.m.
Definitely not the same weather pattern as this time last year, when all the climate change activists were claiming doom and gloom on the horizon because of the unseasonably warm weather and Tornado.
walker101
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 7:04 p.m.
Climate control, OK.
hail2thevict0r
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 6:49 p.m.
What this really means? Ann Arbor will get some rain and might see a dusting of snow....
djacks24
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 7:17 p.m.
...Or we will get a foot of snow.
PittsfieldTwp
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 6:15 p.m.
Question: What happens when over the weekend you drain the gas from your snow blower and put it away for the season? Answer: You get dumped on the next weekend.
Paul
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 10:58 p.m.
I just drain the gas and forget it..last winter left it in the basement all winter, this winter I just filled it with fresh gas/oil mix and to my surprise it fired right up. My blower is now in the basement also, if it snows, it melt sooner or later, lol
WalkingJoe
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 7:42 p.m.
Great, now I can tell my family it was you and not me this time.
dading dont delete me bro
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 7 p.m.
i think i found who's responsible for this...
tdw
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 6:59 p.m.
Seeing I've been living here all of my life I wait until we have a week in the 60's. BTW...you did run all of the gas out of it after you drained it didn't you ?
LindaJ
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 4:55 p.m.
Remember the St. Patrick's Day snowstorm of about 10 inches in 1973!
tdw
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 8:06 p.m.
Nope I was only 10.But I do remember the ones on Thanksgiving a few years later though
Matt Lang
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 8:05 p.m.
just earmuffs?
Kellie Woodhouse
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 8 p.m.
No, I wasn't born yet! What I remember is the blissfully warm St. Patrick's Day we had last year- I was wearing capris! Now that's a distant memory. This year I'll be wearing earmuffs.
WalkingJoe
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 7:41 p.m.
Was just thinking about it the other day. Afterwards I also thought "Dang, I'm gettin' old".
D
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 6:17 p.m.
No, because I wasn't born then!
jcj
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 5:17 p.m.
I remember! I was out taking people to the Chelsea High School on my snowmobile until 3am Sun morning. It was 19 inches. http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2010/03/peek_through_time_st_patricks.html
dading dont delete me bro
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 5:02 p.m.
no i don't
dading dont delete me bro
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 4:55 p.m.
i better leave for work now. wait, i'm already here.
operabethie
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 6:44 p.m.
okay, that was hilarious!
UpperDecker
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 4:55 p.m.
This is crap.
Tom Joad
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 4:22 p.m.
Winter's last hurrah
Chester Drawers
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 6:05 p.m.
You hope it's the last!
Arieswoman
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 3:51 p.m.
And here come the comments about the Washtenaw County Road Commission!
jns131
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 4:10 a.m.
I heard on Wednesday morning Wayne beat us by not having any trucks out at all. The Lodge was a mess and there more accidents on 696 then ever before. This included 94 and 375.
Paul
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 10:55 p.m.
More like here comes more crashes
bwp
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 3:39 p.m.
No, No !