Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac MI
604 PM EST Thu Feb 17 2022
.AVIATION...
Snow, heavy at times, will continue this evening from KPTK south
with 1" per hour rates at times. Vsbys will be less than 1SM and
often 1-4-1/2SM with cigs into the IFR to possibly LIFR range. KFNT
(and especially KMBS) will see less intense snowfall on average.
Snow will taper off between 10 pm and midnight and end overnight.
Cigs will lift back to MVFR to lower VFR in the wake of this winter
storm. North winds will gust to 20-25 knots into the early morning
hours and then decrease and back to the west/southwest late in the
forecast on Friday.
For DTW...The heaviest period of snow will exist between 00z-03z
where snowfall rates of between 1 and 2 inches per hour can be
expected at times. Total snow amounts of 5-8 inches are expected by
around midnight.