The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Watch, which goes into effect at 11 am on Tuesday lasting until 11 pm on Wednesday.
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National Weather Service Meteorologist Nathan Jeruzal says about 5 inches of snow had fallen on Kalamazoo in southern MI by Saturday morning.
The low pressure system driving the storm is in Canada Sunday, leaving more cold temperatures in its wake.
But almost 400 departing flights were cancelled at Chicago’s O’Hare worldwide Airport by Saturday night, and an equal number of arriving flights were also cancelled.
In the northern IN city of LaPorte, the storm had dropped about four inches of snow by noon Saturday. Snow fell at a rate of 2 inches an hour at times, Friedlein said.
“People who don’t need to drive don’t need to be out”, he said.
Chicago’s O’Hare global Airport had recorded 7 inches of snow by midday Saturday, which forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights.
The season’s first snowfall brought a few inches to 20 inches from South Dakota through MI over the weekend. The city of Tea in South Dakota, southeast of Sioux Falls, saw 18 inches; 16 inches were recorded near Bloomfield, Nebraska; Grayslake, Illinois, north of Chicago, got 16 inches of snow, according to the Weather Channel. The three snowiest Novembers were: 1940 with 14.8 inches, 1895 with 14.5 inches and 1951 with 14.3 inches.
Temperatures plunged behind the front.
Other parts of the Midwest were hit harder.
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U.S. Justice Department attorneys are expected to fly to Minnesota on Sunday to investigate the killing of a black man that has prompted protests and calls for the two Minneapolis police officers involved in the… The National Weather Service said the snow would continue in IL and in on Saturday and move into MI. “I was here at 5 a.m. but not much of the snow was sticking”. Madison, Wisconsin, could see 7 degrees and Des Moines at 12.
