ONTONAGON COUNTY - The National Weather Service has issued an Extreme Cold Watch for Thursday night heading into Friday. Here’s the report from meteorologists: Weather Event Onset 10:00 PM (EST), January 22 Description * WHAT...Dangerously cold wind chills as low as 32 below possible. * WHERE...Baraga, Dickinson, Iron, Marquette, Menominee, Gogebic, Keweenaw, Northern Houghton, Ontonagon, and Southern Houghton Counties. * WHEN...From Thursday evening through Saturday afternoo

MERRIWEATHER - Moderate to heavy snow is expected over the next 24 hours across the Western U.P. The National Weather Service out of Marquette says snow accumulations should total between 3 and 11 inches. The highest amounts will fall across the higher terrain “west of a line from Ironwood to White Pine, and from Mass City to Painesdale,” meteorologists report. The areas that are under the Winter Storm Warning include Gogebic, Northern Houghton, and Ontonagon Counties from 7