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Heavy Rainfall and Flooding Threats in the Midwest and Ohio Valley; Heat Continues in the Plains and Southeast

An active pattern will continue to bring heavy to excessive rainfall and flash flooding threats to the Midwest and Ohio Valley over the next couple of days. Dangerous heat continues across the central/southern Plains and Southeast U.S. into next week. There is potential for record-tying/breaking temperatures with many areas forecast to see their hottest temperatures so far this year. Read More >

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.  

 

This map shows the actual snowfall reports from various sources during this winter storm event.

 

 

 

 

                                                                  

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