By Emily Lawler
Lansing, MI -- State of Michigan offices (click here) will resume normal hours on Tuesday, Dec. 29 after having closed early Monday due to severe weather.
According to a press release from the State Emergency Operations Center, a coordinated state and local response effort that Gov. Rick Snyder set into motion Monday afternoon, employees should report to work at the start of their shift. That information is cross-posted on Michigan.gov, where the Snyder administration told employees to look for updates.
While storms are still raging in parts of Michigan, current predictions show warmer air coming into Michigan and melting much of the ice before morning commute times....
By the time most Michiganders access mass transit the travel time defines a better reason to stay home than venture into work. The mass transit system in Michigan is lacking.
I have no idea what 'wet-solid' snow is. I think of it as slush. When warming trends attract heat transfer systems the trajectory of weather is predictable. First the frigid temperatures occur accompanied by 'cold weather' precipitation hence causing public warnings.
BUT, the frigid temperatures are mixed with warmed air and there is turbulence or vice versa warmed air can be mixed with frigid temperatures depending on where one is standing on the geographical match. THE STORM FRONT is what is defined by location and the weather expected.
But, after the frigid temperatures and the weather accompanying it, then there is a change to a more MEDIAN temperature after the hot air mass and water vapor frigid air mass. That median temperature can bring about rapid melting of ice/snow. If the frigid air remains there will be slush accompanied by freezing temperatures and a return to icing conditions.
These heat transfer systems are macroscopic, but, the way people COPE are microscopic simply because the land falls under turbulence and the outcomes of that multi-front temperature changes.
LOCAL MICROSCOPIC WEATHER COPING IS BEST. To achieve a generalized national picture is difficult. The USA Weather Service does a great job, but, ultimately it is the journalist on the beat that will have the most accurate picture. It is the local media that will bring about emergency response in areas not yet realized as effected.
Additional snow forecast overnight December 28, 2015. Most areas of
northern Michigan will get another five to eight inches overnight.
(source: NOAA/weatherbell.com) By Mark Torregrossa
...This current storm (click here) has always leaned a little more toward the crystalized forms of precipitation. When freezing rain has been expected, sleet mixed in and dominated at times. Where sleet has been expected, snowflakes outnumbered the sleet pellets.
Now the storm is doing the same thing in northern Lower Michigan and the eastern U.P.
Heavy snow will continue overnight in northern Lower and the eastern and central U.P. An additional five to eight inches of snow is going to be very common from Traverse City to Grayling to Tawas and northward.
You see some 10 inch to 12 inch additional amounts forecast in far northern Lower. That might be two inches too much, so plan on the heaviest spots getting another eight to 10 inches of snow overnight.
It will be a wet, solid snow - the kind that can start a base on northern Michigan snowmobile trails....
The 'idea' winter has arrived is grossly inaccurate with a troposphere that spawns heat transfer systems. There may be seasonal conditions in some elevations and latitudes, but, generally the USA will have very mixed weather through winter.
