Sunday Snowstorm Update: Radar, Temp Map show your safest drive

Here’s a look at how and when the snowstorm winds down. There is a small, important travel area in Michigan that will remain dangerous.

The snowstorm and the area of widespread snow will rapidly shrink in coverage between 9 a.m. and noon today. While this wind-down is the widespread “system snow,” a small and intense lake-effect snow area will develop at the very southwest corner of Lake Michigan. The data shows what we meteorologists call a “lake-induced, mesoscale vortex” will develop along Michigan’s Lake Michigan shoreline and blast the far southwest corner with localized heavy snow after most of you assume the snowstorm is over.

Let’s handle this in two parts. The first part is the winding down of the widespread snow. Here is the radar forecast from 7 a.m. to noon today. You should