SOUTHFIELD (WWJ) -- Some communities in Metro Detroit saw over six inches of snow this weekend, while still digging out from a winter storm earlier this week.
With snow coming in waves, the National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory for most of Southeast Michigan, from midnight until noon Sunday. (The previous advisory expired at 7 p.m. Saturday).
The NWS had upgraded a portion of the WWJ listening area (including Macomb, Wayne, St. Clair, Sanilac and Huron counties) to a Winter Storm Warning from midnight Sunday to 4 p.m. However, the NWS later downgraded it to a Winter Weather Advisory and shortened the window.
Total snow accumulations were expected to be between 3 and 6 inches, on top of the snow that already fell Friday night and Saturday. This would have brought snow totals ranging from 4 to 8 inches for the weekend, with locally higher amounts possible. But the actual accumulations fell short of the highest predicted levels.
Snowfall totals within the past 24 hours ranged from over 2" to over 6".
Lake Orion: 6.4"
Richmond: 6.1"
Wyandotte: 4.8"
White Lake: 4.5"
Macomb Township: 4"
Berkley: 3.5"
Eastpointe: 3.5"
Livonia: 3.2"
Detroit: 3.2"
Grosse Pointe Farms: 3"
Ann Arbor: 2.3"
See more NWS snow totals here.
Even with this weekend's snow totals, Kevin Kline with the NWS Detroit told WWJ the listening area is still about 10 inches below normal for snow accumulation this winter.
During the day on Saturday, there were numerous spinouts and crashes reported across the Metro Detroit area.
Michigan State Police Second District said in a Saturday X post that there were “44 preventable crashes across the district since midnight.” Get traffic updates on WWJ. >>LISTEN LIVE
Tiffany Oliphant with the Washtenaw County Road Commission says snow plow drivers were ready to go after working a long day on Wednesday.
"Our drivers (do) a lot of overtime to get that, but that's a part of the job," she said, speaking live on WWJ Newsradio 950. "They take it on and they are very, I'll say, willing and excited to see the work that they do. And we just ask everybody to just move over and give them the room to work."
Several Metro Detroit communities remain under snow emergencies as of Sunday evening, requiring residents to move their cars off the streets to allow plows to safely clear the roads. Nearly 150 people in Sterling Heights were ticketed for violating the snow emergency orders during the storm earlier this week.
After the storm moves away, AccuWeather says Southeast Michigan will see a polar plunge into early next week — with temperatures below zero in the overnight hours, and only in the mid teens during the day.
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