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Hello everyone! Here’s your detailed forecast for today:
A quick-moving disturbance will pass through today, bringing the chance for light rain or mist, especially north of Ludington and Mount Pleasant. In the Upper Peninsula, colder air aloft may allow some of this precipitation to briefly mix with melting ice pellets or snow. Wind gusts will be strongest across the Great Lakes, where southwest winds could reach up to 25 mph. Inland areas will see gusts closer to 15 mph, with the calmest conditions generally found along and south of the I-94 corridor. Overall, precipitation amounts will remain light, with most locations seeing less than a quarter inch. The atmosphere simply isn’t set up for widespread heavy rainfall today.
The more orange you are, the worse.
Temperatures this afternoon will rise into the mid-40s across most of the Lower Peninsula, while many spots in the Upper Peninsula will struggle to reach 40°F. A few areas, especially east of Gaylord and the higher terrain west of Marquette, may not make it to 40°F at all.
A handful of locations may just break out of the 40°F “cage,” but most will stay locked into a cool, late-November pattern.
Overnight lows will range widely from the lower 40s to the 20s across the state.
As for drought conditions, they continue to persist across portions of the Lower Peninsula. Even though temperatures are cooling and we’re seeing more mixed precipitation, that alone isn’t enough to end a drought. As of November 20th, around 60% of Michigan is experiencing abnormally dry conditions or worse. Since our last drought update roughly a month ago, the southern U.P. has seen a notable increase in drought intensity, and the US-10 corridor remains stuck in severe drought.
Winter makes drought recovery even harder, as snow typically has an 8:1 to 12:1 snow-to-liquid ratio. In other words, it can take 8–12 inches of snow just to equal one inch of rainfall once melted. Current drought outlooks point toward continued short-term to long-term drought, meaning we could be dealing with these conditions for another 3–6 months into spring. Realistically, the only thing that can break severe drought quickly is a steady, multi-day stretch of gentle rainfall—something we simply haven’t seen in a long time. It’s always easier to fall into a drought than climb back out of one.
And finally, no severe weather is expected today.
That’s all for now!
But before I wrap up… something big is coming to this page tomorrow. As much as I love covering Michigan weather, MIchigan shoulDn’t and Won’t bE the only thing tracked here. Since the goal has always been To provide weather information across the state… well, why stop there? Let’s just say the future will cover a whole lot more than Michigan alone.
