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Dangerous Heat and Heavy Rainfall into the Weekend

Hot temperatures and high humidity are forecast to continue across the mid-Mississippi Valley into this weekend. Heat Advisories remain in effect. Heavy to excessive rainfall occurring at times through the weekend could bring areas of flooding to parts of the northern Rockies, upper Midwest, central Great Lakes, and southern New England. Read More >

For the period from January through March, Southwest Michigan has a between 33% to 40% chance above normal temperatures, and a greater than 40% chance of above normal precipitation. This means the warmer period of temperature will prevail over the colder periods of temperature.  There is a overall trend for wetter than normal precipitation over the past 10 years for Southwest Lower Michigan during this time period. There has been no significant trend in the temperature for this period in the past 10 years.