Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is your cup
of Traverse City for
Saint Patrick's Day twenty twenty six.
I'm Mike. I have my coffee. I was
able to
shovel my way into the studio this morning.
Actually, I made it in yesterday as well,
but didn't record an episode.
It is what it is, but
it's
definitely
a snowy one out there.
No snow currently where I'm sitting, but
we've certainly had our fill of
snow.
Normally,
when they're hyping these
big storms,
you know, it's always, snowmageddon,
snowmageddon. Oh my gosh. You know, run for
your lives and, nothing really happens or, you
know, it's a big nothing burger.
So I kind of thought that might be
what was gonna go on,
as I think I said on Friday.
Kinda poo pooed the idea that it was
gonna be bad, but,
I was wrong.
It's crazy,
or it was crazy.
My neighbor's carport collapsed.
We have a storage
tent,
structure in our backyard, kind of a greenhouse
sort of thing, and
and, the roof on that caved a little
bit,
although it's it's probably salvageable
if, it doesn't continue to collapse.
But after
many, many years, I had to actually call
in a plow guy to get my driveway
open
and, you know, because the tractor and the
snow blowers just wouldn't touch it.
So
had a had a plow guy come in
and open the driveway up, and
now there's probably eight or 10 new inches
of snow in there, but, that I can
handle with the blower and the tractor. No
big deal.
Anyway, enough about me.
Let's see. Yesterday, the Grand Traverse County Sheriff
For Emergency Management
put out an alert. I'm sure if you're
actually in the area here,
you probably got that alert on your phone,
maybe even a phone call.
They definitely,
you know, came out with this shelter in
place thing.
It was,
in
insane. I saw it.
I mean, yeah. It's it's pretty crazy.
But,
yeah. Anyway so, yeah, the the sheriff definitely
said stay off the roads. It's life threatening.
Blah blah blah blah. I was gonna try
to find where that notice was, and I
was gonna read it to you. So give
me just a second to do that.
Yeah.
Let's see. It says Grand Traverse County, life
threatening winter storm. Three feet of snow.
Well, I don't know about three feet, but
it might have been close in spots.
But, anyway, three feet of snow and 40
mile per hour winds causing impassable roads. Travel
strongly
discouraged.
If stranded, responders may be delayed. Stay off
the roads and shelter in place tonight. That
was, issued,
yesterday.
I don't
know. Afternoon, evening.
And, you know, probably a good idea that
everybody
should have stayed
put. I noticed the traffic out in front
of my house has been pretty light
other than the occasional snowplow filling in the
end of my driveway.
So anyway, if you're out there moving snow
today,
be careful, take your time,
don't overdo it.
People tend to
overdo things
during these kind of storms and,
and and the aftermath.
This will melt.
At one point, I thought I saw
60 degrees in the forecast, but that has
changed.
So let me read that forecast.
Today's snow showers likely mainly before 2PM. Patchy
blowing snow up before 2PM. Mostly cloudy with
a high near 20. Northwest wind at 10
to 15 miles per hour.
Chance of snow, 70%.
Total daytime accumulation around an inch possible on
top of what we got, plus drifting.
Tonight, 30% chance of snow showers mainly after
2AM.
Mostly cloudy with low around thirteen.
Southwest wind around five miles per hour becoming
south after midnight.
And, usually when it turns to the south
or coming from the south, it's gonna be
warmer air. So we'll see.
Tomorrow
looks like high near 35.
So, yep, it's gonna
start warming up, but 40 chance of snow
showers.
And if I look the extended forecast,
the snow doesn't stop till Thursday night.
And oops. Wait a minute. Nope. Friday morning,
there looks like there's a, a bit of
snow as well, but the high is gonna
be 40. So,
yeah, it'll melt.
Like I said, I'm
I'm minimally opening up the driveways just to
make sure, you know, we can get out
and in and all that and the walkways
and whatnot, but I am not gonna do
a full blown clear everything
because it's all gonna melt.
And I've got about a eight foot pile
of snow in my front yard that's probably
gonna take till June to melt, but had
to call a plow guy.
Catch me tomorrow.