Severe Weather Across the Center of the Nation; Fire Weather Concerns for Southwest and California; Snow for the Central Rockies

Severe thunderstorms will continue to impact the center of the Nation through today. Very large hail, strong tornadoes, and damaging winds are expected from the Great Lakes into the central/southern Plains; Flash flooding is possible for portions into the mid-Mississippi Valley. Critical fire weather conditions for the Southwest and central valley of California today. Winter hangs on for Rockies. Read More >

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This shows the snowfall for each of the 3 days of this heavy snow event. Wednesday was the day with the most snowfall in the our Northwest Counties. Also note that on Thursday the area of heavy snowfall shifted southward along the lake shore. It was on Thursday when the snowfall was actually the heaviest.

This is this events grand total snowfall. Decatur was the big winner for the greatest snowfall with 20 inches. It should be noted that the area from Holland to Grand Rapids also had similar heavy snowfall amounts in the range of 1.5 feet.