Election Day Weather Extremes

Mostly Sunny Today. Showers and storms expected Wednesday evening. Snow Possible Thursday

After another nice day today. A weather system will move in tomorrow bringing afternoon showers with evening thunderstorms that have a marginal chance of becoming severe. Those storms will move through during the evening with a cold front in its wake bringing snow early Thursday. Heaviest snow is potentially 1 to 2 inches in and around the Ludington area. Read More >

Grand Rapids Radar Down For System Upgrade

Radar data from NWS Grand Rapids will be unavailable until Thursday, November 10, due to a scheduled upgrade necessary to extend the life of the radar into the next decade and beyond. Overlapping radar data will be available from surrounding sites, and no severe weather is expected during the outage. The first of four projects in the Service Life Extension Program, this step replaces obsolete signal processor technology with new digital equipment. The signal processor is the like the brains of the radar, and the upgrade will result in faster and more precise data processing, paving the way for new radar technologies and algorithms in the future. In the next several years, refurbishment will also be done to the transmitter, equipment shelter, and pedestal.