"Winter Storm to Blanket Lower Michigan with Accumulating Snow and Freezing Rain"

A storm system is expected to bring a swath of accumulating snow to central and northern Lower Michigan on Thursday, with snowfall rates potentially reaching one inch per hour for a few hours. The heaviest snow is forecasted to fall in a stripe from Grand Rapids to Flint/Saginaw and northward to Cadillac and Houghton Lake, with 3 to 5 inches expected in the heaviest swath. There may be a sharp change in snowfall amounts as the snow could change to rain in some areas, causing a sharp cutoff from significant snow accumulation to no accumulation at all in just 10 miles across the southern third of Lower Michigan.