FORECAST SUMMARY: Monday, March 20, 2023, through Monday, March 27, 2023

PM-2.5:
24-hour average Fine Particulate concentrations are expected to be mostly Good through the forecast period.

FORECAST DISCUSSION:

Winter is hanging on as demonstrated by the past weekend.  Daytime high temperatures should be in the mid-40’s but we struggled to get much above the freezing mark during the weekend.  Snowfall amounts for the first half of March exceed the totals of January and February, combined.  While we should see some 50-degree weather during mid-week, we will not see a breakthrough warmup that we can call a Spring tease.

Air Quality is expected to be mostly Good though the forecast period.  Monday will start the week under sunny but windy skies.  The clear skies will give way, late Monday, as a cold front drops down from the north and stalls out across the middle of the Lower-Peninsula.  It will lift northward during Wednesday as a warm front.

A surface low will be approaching the state during Wednesday from the west and be over northern Indiana by Thursday morning and over Cleveland by Friday morning.  Some precipitation is expected from this system which should be mostly rain.

While the weekend forecast might be a bit premature, it does not appear too threatening with the occasional chance of rain or snow showers and seasonable temperatures.

EXTENDED FORECAST:

Air Quality should be mostly Good to begin the next work week.

Next Forecast update: Monday, March 27th, 2023