Peak wind, cold and lake effect snow should occur overnight and Thursday morning. Here you can see what awaits you.

Everywhere except the southeastern quarter of Lower Michigan is expected to experience heavy lake-effect snow. Occasional snow will occur over southeastern Lower Michigan, but only for a short period of time as bursts of snow occur.

The exception Thursday morning in the Southeast will be a long, widespread band of lake effect snow coming from West Michigan along I-94 and/or I-96.

Here is the radar forecast for tonight through midday Thursday.

The radar forecast shows the long band of lake effect snow moving into the Ann Arbor and Detroit areas overnight. Snow will not be widespread in these areas by morning, but roads will be slippery in the affected area.

The lake effect will be strong and widespread throughout the Traverse City area and particularly around Gaylord. The snow may even extend southeast into the West Branch and Gladwin area.

The Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo areas will experience occasional moderate snowfall.

A big difference from today will be the temperatures on Thursday morning. It will be cold. In most places, temperatures have dropped to 10 degrees or colder. Any wetness on the roads beneath the snow Wednesday evening will easily turn to ice Thursday morning. Here are the expected temperatures at 8 a.m. Thursday.

The wind will be strong and gusty.

The wind gust forecast for Thursday morning shows gusts of 30 mph for most of us. Some areas around Traverse City and around Saginaw Bay may experience gusts of up to 40 miles per hour. The area of ​​heavy snowfall to the northwest of Lower will be very dangerous with these winds.

It definitely won’t be a pleasant morning to travel. In some areas it can be very dangerous. Join me here on Thursday morning to stay up to date on when the weather starts to calm down.