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Extreme Heat and Tropical Storm Bertha Impacts

Dangerous heat will expand from the Gulf Coast into the Southern Plains and Desert Southwest through week's end. Additional extreme heat impacting the Pacific Northwest will shift to the northern Plains by the weekend. Tropical Storm Bertha is expected to continue to impact portions of the northwestern Gulf Coast from south central Louisiana to the upper Texas coast today. 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.