Good morning, Northern Michigan.
And this is your cup of Traverse City
for
the 01/23/2026,
and it's cold
out there. I woke up. It was, minus
four this morning.
And, I'm gonna make this one a short
one. Just talk about the weather. Not a
lot of news stories going on other than
the weather. So
let's start with the forecast.
Today, snow showers widespread
blowing in snow or blowing snow
mainly before 10AM,
high near three.
It's a high three.
Wind chill value is as low as minus
20. Northwest wind
10 to 15 miles per hour with gust
as high as 30. Chance precipitation,
90%.
Total daytime snow accumulation, one less than one
half inch possible.
That's good news.
Although it's moving around and being as,
cold as it is, it's dry and it
blows around really good.
Tonight, a 40 chance of snow showers mainly
before 1AM, mostly cloudy with steady temperature around
zero. Wind chill factors
as low as minus 12, which is an
improvement over minus 20.
West wind are how five miles per hour
becoming calm after midnight.
Saturday is gonna be partly
sunny with a high near eleven. Wind chill
values as low as minus one. Calm wind
becoming southwest around five. So
that's not too bad. I mean, yeah, eleven
is the highest kinda bad.
We'll go through the weekend here. Saturday night,
mostly cloudy with a low around zero, calm
wind.
Sunday, a 20% chance of snow showers,
Mostly cloudy with a high near 15.
Calm wind becoming northeast
around five miles per hour. So that's kinda
weird. A northeast
wind,
but, hey. We'll take it. Lake effect doesn't
happen as much that direction for us anyway.
Sunday night, 30% chance of snow showers before
1AM, mostly cloudy with a low around four.
And,
Monday, we're getting into the double digits again,
high near 15.
So
that'll, cover the weather for the weekend. Just
some
tips.
I I personally, I have to go today
and plow some snow.
Luckily, I have a tractor with a cab
on it, so I don't have to, sit
out in the wind.
But I am planning it out,
as best I can to,
minimize the exposure to the cold and the
wind.
So my plan is to spend no more
than thirty minutes at a time out there
than
warming up.
Today is not the day to save fuel.
Idle your vehicle. If you're got if you
have to go somewhere,
just let it warm up properly. Make sure
all your windows are clear.
And, you know, just take it easy. Don't,
don't overstress
about,
you know, getting things done out
outside. You know, don't
shovel too you know, if you have to
go shovels, you know, do 15.
Go warm up. Do another fifteen minutes. Go
warm up.
You said if you're driving and
and, you know, just let your car idle.
It's,
it's it's a lot better to spend a
few extra dollars on fuel than,
for you to,
you know, freeze.
You know, just be careful. Holy crud.
We don't normally get this kind of temperature
here.
So just,
be careful.
Looking
right now at the absolute the current at
the Traverse City Airport
And, it's minus three degrees Fahrenheit.
Wind chill factor minus
25.
Holy crud. And,
of course, the wind is, you know, the
20 to 30 mile per hour gusts.
Yeah. 25 miles per hour, it looks like.
Yeah. West at 18 and gusting to 25.
So yeah.
It's it's brutal out there. And, I'm sure
it's the same
pretty much anywhere
here in Northern Michigan.
And, it looks like the rest of the
country, at least south of us, is gonna
get, quite
a quite an event.
Unfortunately,
some ice in the Kentucky and Tennessee area
is the latest I saw.
But, that's gonna happen more, you know, over
the
over the weekend.
And,
so yeah. It's, it's winter. It's January. It's,
Northern Michigan, at least in our case.
Or well, I don't know where you're listening
from, but know where I'm sitting.
It's cold.
And my little office here,
studio
is keeping up, but, yeah. It's a little
cooler in here than it, normally would be.
But,
well, I'm nice and bundled up. So,
anyway, be careful out there.
I will
talk to you on Monday.
Hopefully, we, we all
get to get through this brutal cold.
And, also,
gonna be doing a
a,
episode over at mikedell.com,
Mike Dell's World podcast,
about the blizzard of seventy eight. I know
I touched on that years ago in that
show, but,
I think it's,
it's relevant since we're experiencing
I wouldn't call it a blizzard, but we're
experiencing some extreme weather here. So
why not reminisce,
from forty eight years ago?
This weekend, actually, on Sunday, that will be
forty eight years,
since that storm started at least here in
Traverse City. I know it's a couple days
later
on the East Coast.
But,
anyway,
catch me
on Monday.