GRAYLING, Mich. (AP) - Some parts of Michigan were snow-covered as an early spring storm moved across the state this weekend.
About 7 inches of snow fell in the Traverse City and Grayling areas by early Sunday afternoon with more expected later in the day, said Scott Rozansky, a National Weather Service meteorologist in the Grayling office in northern Michigan.
Such winter-like weather is not atypical in Michigan during the first week of April, he said.
“This is very similar to northern Michigan in April of 2007,” Rozansky said. “Gaylord had over 15 inches of snow in that period. Traverse City had 11 inches. Petoskey had 12 inches.”
Another system due to hit the state Wednesday will bring more snow, he added.
The East Coast also was battered a bit this weekend. Parts of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island saw up to 6 inches of snow Sunday morning.
The snow and rain was followed Sunday by high winds which downed trees, branches and power lines.
Utilities reported more than 9,000 power outages in Massachusetts, over 5,000 in Connecticut and nearly 600 in Rhode Island. New Jersey had about 46,000 outages, while Pennsylvania had more than 18,000.
In Michigan, winter storm warnings and weather advisories were issued for a number of areas in the northern Lower Peninsula.
Eight inches of snow was expected to fall late Sunday on some communities in the tip of Michigan’s Thumb region, the National Weather Service said on its website.
Areas to the south were expected to see smaller accumulations.
Temperatures in the Saginaw area were expected to drop below freezing Sunday night and struggle to reach the mid-30s on Monday.
Sunday night and early Monday temperatures in Gaylord were expected to dip into the teens.
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