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REGIONAL WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
900 PM EDT WED APR 2 2008

...FINALLY...A SUNNY AND NEAR NORMAL DAY...

STRONG HIGH PRESSURE FIRMLY IN CONTROL OF THE WEATHER ACROSS THE 
WESTERN GREAT LAKES PROVIDED SUNNY SKIES AND CLOSE TO NORMAL 
TEMPERATURES ACROSS MICHIGAN TODAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES PEAKED IN THE 
LOW TO MID 40S...WITH BREEZY WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS. 

HIGH PRESSURE WILL SLIDE EAST OF MICHIGAN TONIGHT...ALLOWING SOME 
INCREASE IN CLOUD COVER FROM THE WEST. A WEAK AREA OF LOW PRESSURE 
WILL CLIP UPPER MICHIGAN ON THURSDAY...RESULTING IN THICKENING CLOUD 
COVER ACROSS ALL OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN AND A FEW SPRINKLES OR 
FLURRIES ACROSS EASTERN UPPER MICHIGAN. LOW TEMPERATURES TONIGHT 
WILL BE MAINLY IN THE 20S...WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES THURSDAY 
AFTERNOON WARMING INTO THE UPPER 40S TO LOWER 50S.

DESPITE WHAT THE CALENDER SAYS...WE STILL HAVE LOCATIONS ACROSS THE 
AREA WITH SNOW ON THE GROUND. SOME OF THE MORE IMPRESSIVE TOTALS ARE 
IN THE TEENS...SUCH AS VANDERBILT...WHERE THEY STILL HAVE 16 INCHES 
OF A GLACIER-IZED SNOW PACK. THE EASTERN UPPER BOASTS EVEN MORE SNOW 
ON THE GROUND...WHERE MORAN HAS 15 INCHES. HOWEVER...THE AWARD HAS 
TO GO TO SAULT STE MARIE...WHERE THEY ARE STILL DEALING WITH A 22 
INCH SNOW PACK. THIS IS CURRENTLY TIED FOR SECOND PLACE FOR THE 
DEEPEST SNOW DEPTH ON APRIL 2ND. THE RECORD IS A WHOPPING 25 
INCHES...WHICH WAS OBSERVED ON THIS DAY BACK IN 1972.

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RUNYAN