SOUTHFIELD (WWJ) -- Another round of wintry weather is on the way that could bring up to half-a-foot of snow to Southeast Michigan later this week.
The National Weather Service says accumulating snowfall is possible across the state, beginning early Friday, with early estimates calling for 3 to 6 inches in the Metro Detroit area.
NWS Detroit said in tweet on Tuesday: "Impactful snow potential will be highly contingent on where the rain/snow line sets up. Monitor future updates as this system has the markings for a major winter storm."
AccuWeather forecasters say this same storm could up dump as much as 6 to 10 of inches of snow on Chicago, and 4 to 8 inches in Milwaukee.
Travelers should expect flight delays and cancellations in the major Midwest airport hubs, including Chicago and Detroit, AccuWeather added.
Ahead of this storm, WWJ AccuWeather Meteorologist Dean DeVore it's going to be mild day on Wednesday, with some sun and highs reaching the low 50s.
But it'll turn colder again in Metro Detroit on Thursday, getting back into the 30s for a low and 40s for a high.
When the storm arrives on Friday, DeVore said areas south of Detroit could see up to 3 inches of snow with some sleet in the mix, before switching over to rain.
Suburbs along and north of M-59, DeVore said, are expected to get 3 to 6 inches inches of snow. "Gotta watch for it to go back to snow in some areas and get icy Friday night as it gets cold," he cautioned.
The NWS says the heaviest snow appears to be north of the I-69 corridor..
This all comes after one week ago Lower Michigan was hit with an ice storm that weighed down and damaged power lines, leaving 680,000 homes and business without power, including more than 630,000 in Metro Detroit.
As of Wednesday morning, DTE was reporting more than 16,000 outages many of them scattered around Detroit. Some of the outages are not from the initial storm, but from freezing rain that came through on Monday.
