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REGIONAL WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
900 AM EST SAT NOV 21 2009

...FOG WITH ABOVE NORMAL OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES...

HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED OVER THE OHIO VALLEY AND CENTRAL PLAINS
LIFTED NORTH INTO THE GREAT LAKES OVERNIGHT. DRIER AIR ASSOCIATED
WITH THIS FEATURE...SLOWLY PUSHED OVER THE NORTHERN LAKES EARLY
THIS MORNING. THE DRIER AIR DECREASED CLOUD COVER OVER THE
STATE...BUT HELPED GENERATE AREAS OF FOG AS ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE LINGERED OVER NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN.

VISIBILITIES VARIED GREATLY OVERNIGHT BETWEEN 1/4 MILE TO AROUND
5 MILES...DEPENDING ON LOCATION AND TIMING OF CLEARING SKIES. THE
MOST WIDESPREAD AREA OF DENSE FOG...WAS LOCATED GENERALLY FROM
GAYLORD TO HOUGHTON LAKE AND WEST TO THE LAKE MICHIGAN SHORELINE.

OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES REMAINED GENERALLY ABOVE NORMAL
OVERNIGHT...HELPED IN PART BY THE SLOW DECREASE IN CLOUD COVER.
LOWS WERE IN THE 30S TO LOWER 40S. THE COLDEST LOCATION THIS
MORNING WAS 33 DEGREES IN SAULT STE MARIE...WHILE THE WARMEST
LOCATION WAS 41 DEGREES IN EMPIRE IN THE SLEEPING BEAR DUNES
NATIONAL LAKESHORE.

THE CHART BELOW COMPARES LOW TEMPERATURES THIS MORNING...TO
FRIDAY MORNING ALONG WITH NORMAL LOW TEMPERATURES FOR THIS
DATE.

                LOW TEMP     LOW TEMP    NORMAL LOW   DEPARTURE
STATION       THIS MORNING    FRIDAY     THIS DATE   FROM NORMAL

ALPENA            33            38          25         +8
HOUGHTON LAKE     42            39          26         +16
SAULT STE MAIRE   30            35          24         +6
TRAVERSE CITY     41            43          29         +12
GAYLORD           41            38          25         +16

ON THIS DAY IN WEATHER HISTORY...IN 1985...HURRICANE KATE MADE
LANDFALL NEAR MEXICO BEACH FLORIDA. WIND GUSTS TO 100 MPH WERE
REPORTED AT CAPE SAN BLAS FLORIDA. THIS WAS THE LATEST KNOWN
HURRICANE TO HIT THE UNITED STATES SO FAR NORTH.

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SWR