Overview
- The National Weather Service’s Northern Indiana office issued a Winter Storm Warning from 7 a.m. Wednesday to 1 p.m. Thursday.
- Forecasters expect 6 to 8 inches of lake-effect snow with locally higher totals and isolated one-foot amounts in the most persistent bands, driven by northwest gusts up to 40 mph.
- Conditions are forecast to deteriorate through Wednesday with the most hazardous travel Wednesday evening into Thursday morning, impacting both commutes.
- The warning includes Benton Harbor, Michigan, and South Bend, Indiana, with the heaviest snow favored along west and southwest Michigan shoreline counties such as Berrien County.
- Northwest Lower Michigan could see around seven inches and the eastern Thumb is under a Winter Storm Watch, as more than half a million residents are urged to delay travel and carry emergency supplies.