I made a video earlier today about this storm. Now I see the office has issued a High Wind Watch.
...HIGH WIND WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH MONDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 55 mph
possible.
* WHERE...Portions of Eastern Upper and Northern Lower Michigan.
* WHEN...From Monday afternoon through Monday evening.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down trees and power
lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
This is looking interesting…
10/28 – As mentioned in the previous post, the cold front began to form waves of low pressure along it. As they moved from south to north, they would bring more moisture. In this case, more light rain and drizzle. Temperatures remain warm enough that no snow fell during the day.
10/29 – We begin the march of the Alberta Clippers, which seems to really usher our winter. Of course, they aren’t the only lows we get, but they are the main low pressure systems that seem to affect us. So the clipper on the map, that is moving from NW Ontario, into Lake Superior helps to push the stalled front that has been over us for a couple of days east by the evening. High pressure then built into the region and cooled things off.
10/31 – So the snow that we got by the morning remained as we stayed in the cold side of the low pressure as it moved up into Lake Erie, and on into New England. This brought snow across northern Michigan, mainly in northern lower Michigan. While the snow map on the morning of the 1st is snow depth, it was pretty much the snow we got from the night of the 10/31.
11/1 – As the system from the day before left, the high pressure built into the region and lake effect snow continued, in some areas. Snow, overnight, wasn’t as big of of a deal as the warmer air during the day began to melt the 3-5″ from the night before, so that there were bare patches around the region, and roads were just wet.
11/2 – The rain/snow mix in the morning began to quickly diminish as the colder air began to move into the region. By the afternoon, a lot of the snow on the ground had disappeared. However, the air mass began to get colder, and the fetch over the Great Lakes began to lengthen. This lead to some decent lake effect bands that produced some significant amounts in the area, that in the office we call, “
11/3 -The winds began to veer through the morning from west to northwest, and we headed into our first real lake effects snow period. We did have some locations mix with rain, but overall, we got snow bands in eastern upper and northwest lower Michigan.
10/22 – During the morning, the dry slot moved over the region and even cleared the sky out for a time. At 530 am, when I arrived home from my night shift, I could see the stars overhead. However, the winds were already picking up again.
10/23 – The winds continued to gust to gale force on Lake Michigan in the morning. By the end of the day, the winds had diminished. However, the rain didn’t stop as lake effect rain showers continued into the afternoon. And just when you thought the rain was done, a wave moved up the front, and produced more rain over the region. Although, most didn’t fall in Gaylord.
10/24 – After the cold front went through the state, high pressure built in the state and the weather dried out. Temperatures warmed up a bit.
10/25 – The High pressure remained for another day, but things began to cloud up, as the next system started to move out of the Gulf Coast and north into Southern Plains. Not as warm, because of the clouds.
10/27 – By the morning of the 27th, the now extratropical low was occluding and beginning to move on. High pressure built into the region and the cold front to the west began to form waves on it, as an area of low pressure at 500 mb(~18,000ft) was developing over the Rockies. As the upper low moved out, the cold front began to slowly move to the east and into Michigan. The precipitation was mainly light rain from the morning of the 27th.
10/17 – The drier air finally won out by late in the day. The rain was light as is most lake effect rains. Eventually, there were some breaks in the clouds late, and the sky cleared overnight. 
10/19 – As the high retreated to the east, the warm air continued to move into the region, and brought us to above normal temperatures, approaching 60°. However, the cold front moved into the region, and brought a little rain to northern Michigan. 
10/20 – The cold front moves through northern Michigan in the morning, The front was rather dry, as little rain fall with it. When it went through. High pressure then quickly built in and the sky cleared out. Temperatures again were above normal. 
We have had a cold spring here in northern Michigan. Look at the March numbers 
We are just starting to see a bit of moderation this week, with high temperatures finally in the 40s. With the cold temperatures we had a very heavy spring storm that dumped about 8-12 inches of snow on areas north of M-72 last week. However, the April sun is strong and we have been seeing the snow sublimate/melt. The snow depths have been slowly sinking back toward zero. So when will see the snow leave?It looks like from a rough guess, and looking at the temperatures trends, if not by next week, definitely the following week. The only caveat to this would be that a storm could pop up again, but the later we get into April, that even our high temperatures will support rain rather than snow. We are all looking forward to that.