(WWJ) – It's still early October, but earlier this week Michigan already saw the first snowflakes of the season.
While Metro Detroiters don't need to be worrying about snow in the area just yet, Isle Royale, north of the Upper Peninsula mainland in Lake Superior, saw some snow on Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
Webcam footage from Greenstone Ridge showed a flurry of light snow reducing visibility around 11 a.m. Monday, which AccuWeather Meteorologist Carl Erickson says is "not uncommon at all" this early in the fall, especially for that area of the state.
"That is just what we have to deal with. And if you don't like it, that's too bad," he said on this week's Weather Wednesday segment.
Though it doesn't look like we'll be seeing snow here in Metro Detroit in the near future, Halloween is just a couple weeks away and Erickson says he "can't put any bets" on whether it will be wet or dry on Halloween.
"But I am looking at the longer term trends here, and it looks like there's gonna be a chillier surge of air that comes in the second to last week of October," Erickson said.
He believes temperatures will be close to average for the end of October in Michigan – in the 50s and close to 60 during the day, dipping down into the 30s and 40s at night.
"At least we don't have to worry about any real extreme cold air, no big warmups and hopefully no big storms, but at this point it looks like a pretty typical weather pattern to round out the month of October," Erickson said.
As for this week, many Americans – particularly those out west – will be treated to a "ring of fire" eclipse. In Michigan, he says, we can expect to see about 35% of the sun to be covered by the moon.
