Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is your cup
of Traverse City for 03/06/2026,
and I'm Mike.
And I do have my coffee handy. I
hope you do too.
Let's see. Have you ever heard of a
slush cup?
I thought that was a pretty good name
for the events that are gonna be happening
at, Mount Holiday in Hickory Hills,
in the coming,
I don't know, I guess it's the fifteenth,
sixteenth, something like that.
The two local ski hills have announced closing
dates. Mount Holiday will be closed from the
ninth till the twelfth to preserve snow for
the annual slush cup,
which will occur on Saturday, March 14 as
part of the end of season bash.
You're gonna have, $10 lift tickets.
The slush cup itself starts at 11AM,
and they're gonna have a DJ and hot
dogs dogs and the and the bar and
grill there. The tea bar and grill will
be open,
before they shift into their
March 17,
change to spring
hours. By the way, that's, the t bar
over there has pretty good food, and it's
open year round.
So, go check it out. That's at,
Holiday Hill or how Mount Holiday, they call
it. I always call it Holiday Hills for
some reason, but that's the neighborhood it's in.
Hickory Hills will hold its own slush cup
Saturday, March 15 from one to 3PM,
and it's a tradition that
challenges skiers and snowboarders to make it across
to a pond of icy water often the
most outrageous
costumes,
and everything.
Yeah. I know Crystal Mountain does that as
well. But,
yeah, they,
it it looks like a lot of fun,
but if you fall in the water, it's
pretty cold. So hopefully, they have
have
done their their due diligence and they have
warm up shacks and people there to pull
pull people out of the water and all
that stuff. But, you you know, a lot
of times people go right across it.
It's kind of kinda interesting to watch.
You know, on YouTube, there's some videos of
the one at Crystal Mountain that I saw.
But
anyway, so the slush cup is happening soon.
It's,
just another sign of
March mudness
as, as I keep saying here.
Speaking of that, looking out my
looking out of my,
or through my
security camera on my driveway, and I'm noticing
that the mailbox looks a lot taller than
it did a couple of weeks ago.
The snow piles were all the way up
to the same height as the mailbox,
and now it looks like about a six
inch little pile left there, along
along the road.
So, the snow banks are melting. You know,
you know, of course, the parking lots,
you know, Walmart's
parking lot. They've got still mountains of snow
over there, but, and, you know, same thing
around Cherryland Center and and the,
Grand Traverse Mall, all that. But, it's melting.
And speaking of weather,
today's showers mainly after 4PM. Patchy fog, high
near 56.
South wind, five to 10 miles per hour.
Chance for
precipitation,
Friday,
is 90%.
New precipitation
amounts between a tenth and a quarter of
an inch possible. Tonight, showers. And notice it
didn't say snow showers. It said showers
and possibly
a thunderstorm
before 10PM.
We already had one this year, so that's
not out of the question.
And then a chance of showers and thunderstorms
between ten and 1AM and then showers and
possibly a thunderstorm.
Well, they're they're very verbose on this, weather
forecast.
But just just say, hey. It's gonna rain
and,
it's,
possibly thunderstorms. New rainfall amounts between a quarter
and a half an inch possible. So that's
quite a bit. That's gonna melt the snow.
Hopefully, the
ski hills will will remain snow covered,
because I don't think my yard is going
to be.
Saturday shower is likely possibly a thunderstorm before
1PM.
Mostly cloudy with a temperature rising near 58.
Wow.
58.
And,
then falling to around 40,
later on in the day. Southwest wind 10
to 15.
And let's see. We'll go through the weekend.
Saturday night, mostly cloudy with a low around
32.
So getting cold again.
Sunday's,
Sunday is a high near 52. Southwest winds,
10 to 15.
And then Sunday night, partly cloudy with a
little around 44.
And Monday's gonna be 57
and sunny. So,
yeah. I think spring has sprung. The groundhog
was wrong.
Let's fire the groundhog
or
or maybe barbecue him. I don't know. I
don't know what a groundhog tastes like.
Anyway, everybody have a great weekend. I'll catch
you on Monday.