Wild Michigan Weather On Tap This Week

DETROIT (CBS Detroit) It's Michigan, which means if you don't like the weather, just wait a minute, it will change.

But this week is bringing a particularly erratic roller coaster mix of weather with rain, snow, wind, and sunshine all in the forecast.

"It's up and down, all over the place," said Accuweather Meteorologist Dave Samuel.

Temperatures are below average Monday, struggling into the mid-30s with partly cloudy skies; Tuesday will bring slightly warmer temperatures, with a high of 42 degrees.

There's a high of 57 degrees on Wednesday, but with an unpleasant mix of rain showers and wind. "That's ahead of the next cold front," Samuel said, adding wind gusts of up to 30 mines per hour are expected.

Thursday will bring a high in the mid-40s, and Friday and Saturday will drop back into the 30s, with sunny skies.

But those memes all over the Internet that tell you a foot of snow is coming this weekend? That's not happening. (Turns out you can't trust everything you see on the Web.)

It will stay colder than normal, though, for the foreseeable future, Samuel said.

When will the cold stuff stop? Not anytime soon.

"I'm looking at long-range stuff here and it doesn't look good," CBS 62 Chief Meteorologist Jim Madaus said, adding that into early April lower-than-normal temperatures are expected.

"The good news is no major show," he added. "We won't have to get the shovel out."

Heavy snow struck Chicago early Monday, but it's not expected to clip Michigan, which should stay dry today and tomorrow, and over the weekend, after a damp Wednesday. If you're tired of the cold in metro Detroit, keep this in mind: Chicago residents woke up Monday to up to 5 inches of snow.

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