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Heat the Southwest; Fire Weather in the Central U.S.; Kona Low Impacting Hawaii

A rare March heat wave is ongoing with much above-normal temperatures over the Southwest U.S. through this weekend. Periods of critical fire weather will persist from the central Rockies to the central and southern Plains through the weekend as gusty winds and low relative humidity continue. A Kona low will continue to bring several rounds of moderate to heavy rainfall to Hawaii through Sunday. 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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