Major Winter Storm to Impact the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast; Inclement Weather in the Pacific Northwest

A major winter storm is expected to bring heavy snow, strong winds, and coastal flooding across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast that may cause impossible travel conditions and power outages. Blizzard conditions are possible along the Northeastern Seaboard. Wet weather and strong winds return to the Pacific Northwest and north-central California. Read More >

Temperatures averaged below normal across all of Michigan. The coldest departures from normal were over the Western Upper Peninsula where temperatures averaged more than 10 degrees below normal.

Precipitation was below normal across all of the southern 2/3 of Lower Michigan. The northern 1/3 of lower Michigan had above normal precipitation.

Traverse City had the greatest monthly precipitation of any NWS network climate reporting station in Lower Michigan with 6.57 inches.

Snowfall fell in record or near record amounts across Iowa, Minnesota, and parts of Wisconsin and the Michigan Upper Peninsula.

Marquette Michigan recorded 22.1" of snow in October, that now stands as there all time record snowfall for October. The old record was 18.6" in 1979.

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Major Winter Storm to Impact the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast; Inclement Weather in the Pacific Northwest

October 2020 Climate In Southwest Michigan