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open lake forecast for lake michigan national weather service milwaukee/sullivan wi 852 pm cdt Fri apr 26 2024
for waters beyond five nautical miles of shore on lake michigan.
waves are provided as a range of significant wave heights, which is the average of the highest 1/3 of the wave, along with the average height of the highest 10% of the waves which will occasionally be encountered.
Synopsis -
low pressure around 29.2 inches over the central great plains will lift into minnesota tonight, with gusty southeasterly winds expected. A few gusts late tonight into Saturday morning may approach gale force, especially in the northern half of the lake as the low continues to lift into lake superior. Winds will then become light and northeasterly Saturday night into Sunday morning as the low exits and a weak cold front drapes across central portions of the lake. Sunday into Sunday night, winds will become breezy and southerly south of the front and will become breezy and easterly to northeasterly north of the front.
a few Thunderstorms are possible this evening into tonight across the southern half of the lake, lifting into the northern half Saturday morning. Additional rounds of showers and Thunderstorms are expected Saturday and Sunday. A few storms in the afternoon hours could produce locally gusty winds.
lmz261-362-364-366-563-565-567-868-270915- lake michigan from seul choix point to rock island passage 5 nm offshore to mid lake- lake michigan south of a line from seul choix point to the mackinac bridge and north of a line from charlevoix mi to south fox island 5 nm offshore- lake michigan from charlevoix to point betsie mi 5 nm offshore to mid lake- lake michigan from point betsie to manistee mi 5 nm offshore to mid lake- lake michigan from rock island passage to sturgeon bay wi- lake michigan from sturgeon bay to two rivers wi 5 nm offshore to mid lake- lake michigan from two rivers to sheboygan wi 5 nm offshore to mid lake- lake michigan from pentwater to manistee mi 5 nm offshore to mid lake- 852 pm cdt Fri apr 26 2024
sheboygan wi to pentwater mi north - .
Rest of tonight - Southeast winds to 30 kt. Rain showers likely through early evening, then rain showers likely with slight chance of Thunderstorms overnight. Waves 3 to 5 ft building to 5 to 8 ft occasionally to 10 ft. Saturday - South winds to 30 kt increasing to gales to 35 kt. Chance of rain showers and slight chance of Thunderstorms in the morning, then slight chance of rain showers and Thunderstorms in the afternoon. Waves 7 to 10 ft occasionally to 13 ft. Saturday night - Southwest winds to 30 kt diminishing to 15 to 25 kt late in the evening, then becoming west 10 to 20 kt after midnight becoming north 10 to 15 kt late. Chance of rain showers. Waves 6 to 9 ft occasionally to 12 ft subsiding to 2 to 4 ft. Sunday - Northeast winds 10 to 20 kt. Chance of rain showers in the morning, then rain showers in the afternoon. Waves 2 to 4 ft building to 3 to 5 ft. Sunday night - East winds to 30 kt becoming southeast. Rain showers in the evening, then rain showers with a chance of Thunderstorms overnight. Waves 4 to 6 ft occasionally to 8 ft building to 4 to 7 ft occasionally to 9 ft. Monday - South winds to 30 kt. Showers likely. Waves 4 to 7 ft occasionally to 9 ft building to 5 to 8 ft occasionally to 10 ft.Monday night - Southwest winds 15 to 25 kt diminishing to 10 to 20 kt. Chance of rain showers. Waves 5 to 8 ft occasionally to 10 ft subsiding to 3 to 5 ft. Tuesday - Southwest winds 10 to 20 kt becoming south. Waves 2 to 4 ft. Wednesday - Southwest winds 10 to 20 kt. Chance of showers. Waves 2 to 4 ft.

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Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Gaylord MI 1145 PM EDT Fri Apr 26 2024

KEY MESSAGES

-- Mild with showers returning overnight.

-- Low but non-zero chance for severe thunderstorms Saturday evening into the overnight, particularly across northwest lower Michigan.

-- Shower and thunderstorm potential at times Sunday into Monday.

SHORT TERM /THROUGH SUNDAY/
Pattern synopsis:

The larger CONUS pattern has ridging in the east and troffing in the west, with numerous individual impulses rotating through the base of the trof over the Four Corners region and ejecting out into the Plains and eventually the Great Lakes. At the surface, low pressure over southern Nebraska will move to northern Wisconsin by Saturday morning. A warm front extending from the low will lift through northern Michigan on Saturday.

Primary Forecast Concerns:

Elevated fire danger continues through sunset with low relative humidities and gusty surface winds. Rain chances begin this evening over southwest parts of the CWA, increasing in coverage as it spreads northeast through the rest of northern lower and eastern upper overnight. This convection will be mostly showers, but isolated embedded thunder is possible. The last several model runs have implied a break in the precipitation Saturday morning, but latest runs are not so clear on this point. What is clear is that once the warm front passes, temperatures will rise sharply. Highs on Saturday will be mainly in the low to mid 70s across northern lower, with the potential for some overachieving sites to make a run at the upper 70s. Highs will be generally in the 60s across eastern upper.

LONG TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/
Pattern Synopsis / Forecast: Decaying area of low pressure set to pass into the upper Great Lakes with time Saturday night, with attendant surface cold frontal boundary orienting itself parallel to a WSW to ENE shear vector, which will slow its south and eastward progression, and eventually stall over Michigan later Saturday night. This will bring about a window of shower and storm chances Saturday evening into the early overnight hours across portions of northern lower Michigan, with a non-zero severe risk to accompany it. Looking ahead, additional shortwave impulses are set to pass through the region Sunday into Monday, riding the stalled frontal boundary until more of a split flow regime builds and the baroclinic zone driving the convective outbursts upstream of us becomes disheveled. Surface high pressure builds in for Tuesday before another wave works into the region closer to midweek, bringing a return of rain chances Tuesday night into Wednesday.

Primary Forecast Concerns:

Saturday Night Severe Potential: At this time yesterday, an uncertainty riddled forecast offered myriad of solutions across the Northwoods as to how things evolved, ranging from minimal impact to higher end impacts. Can begin to say with a little better confidence that the forecast trend is leaning more toward the lower end of impacts across the region. Unfavorable timing and an overall lack of appreciable instability will likely be detrimental to any well organized convection materializing across the region. Moisture transport from the southwest likely fails to become rich enough to juice things up to the point of overpowering a capping inversion aloft, and thus suppressing deeper convective development. That's not to say things couldn't materialize without a stout forcing mechanism. In this case, the surface low and associated frontal boundary will be in a deteriorating state as it progresses toward northern Michigan. In addition, better instability and moisture looks to hold to our south and west where better synoptic support also lies. As of now, parameters for instability are still enough to potentially generate some storms, mainly over NW lower Michigan where slightly better surface dewpoints should be able to drive higher CAPE as the front advances, but latest CAMs are very bear-ish on initiating anything deeper and organized. At this juncture, best storm chances favor north and west of a Houghton Lake to Alpena line, with particular focus on the Grand Traverse Bay region south to Cadillac and Manistee. Any storms that do fire and become slightly more organized could be on the stronger to low-end severe levels, with primary hazards being large hail and perhaps some gustier winds, especially if any bowing segments manage to materialize materialize in an environment featuring 200+ SRH and 40+kts of bulk shear parallel to the boundary. In addition, lower storm coverage suggests that heavy rain potential will be highly localized into locales that actually manage to bag a storm, with training convection trending less likely.

Rest of the Period: Stalled frontal boundary will remain lazily draped over the Great Lakes State to close out the weekend. The front begins to be forced back northward as another low pressure center over the Plains advances north and east into Minnesota, bringing back rain chances later Sunday into Sunday night. Much like the previous system, this are of low pressure will become weaker and more disheveled as it pivots eastward toward the upper Great Lakes region, and will feature even worse timing for convective development, so severe potential is likely not on the cards at this time.

AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z SUNDAY/
Deep low pressure will lift NE out of the Central Plains and into the Upper Mississippi Valley overnight...thru Lake Superior on Saturday...reaching James Bay by Saturday night.
Deep moisture will surge northward ahead of this system...
generating waves of showers and embedded thunderstorms across all of the Western Great Lakes region over the next 24 hours.
Cigs will gradually drop to low VFR/MVFR overnight into Saturday as showers and storms develop across our area. LLWS will develop late tonight into early Saturday as low level winds strengthen in advance of this system. Surface winds will remain from the SE at 15 to 25 kts overnight...shifting to the south and eventually SW on Saturday and further strengthening to 20 to 30 kts.

APX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
MI...None.
MARINE...Small Craft Advisory until 2 AM EDT Sunday for LHZ345>349.
Small Craft Advisory until 2 AM EDT Sunday for LMZ323-341-342- 344>346.
Small Craft Advisory until 2 AM EDT Sunday for LSZ321-322.

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