GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – As the Lakeshore shivers with the rest of West Michigan and much of the country in this early winter deep freeze, one of those who track weather patterns says that our conditions here are more in keeping with the central Canadian Plains than the Great Lakes.
WOOD-TV meteorologist Matt Kirkwood says that you have to go back nearly three decades to find temperatures this cold in December. “The jet stream has just done a full-steam buckle,” he explained to Ed Ver Schure during an interview today on “WHTC Talk fo the Town” program, “where it’s transported air that typically resides up in north central Canada and has displaced it right over Michigan.”
The National Weather Service office at Ford Airport in Grand Rapids is predicting snow to make travel difficult through the end of the week, especially near Lake Michigan, with sub-zero cold continuing into next week.
