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KEY MESSAGES

- Quiet Weather into Early Next Week

DISCUSSION

Issued at 300 AM EST Thu Feb 12 2026

- Quiet Weather into Early Next Week

The quiet weather pattern continues through the weekend as a southern stream low tracks well south of Lower Michigan. The northern stream remains separate with clipper lows passing north of the Great Lakes on Friday and again Monday. Temperatures moderate as upper heights rise over the weekend.

The next chance for precipitation is on Tuesday as warm advection increases with enough moisture to bring a chance of rain or mixed precip with the highest chances across the northern forecast area. We will have to watch the placement of a cold anticyclone across the Hudson Bay region during this time as it will be a close call for freezing rain or frozen precip by Wednesday and Thursday especially across the northern forecast area, which has seen its share of freezing rain episodes during previous periods of milder temperatures this winter.

AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z FRIDAY/

Issued at 1124 PM EST Wed Feb 11 2026

IR loop shows stratocu over central Lower is making steady progress east with all but LAN/JXN clear at this point. Clearing should occur at LAN and JXN within the next few hours. VFR conditions are expected at the western terminals through the period. Scattered to broken MVFR cu is expected at LAN/JXN during the daylight hours.

GRR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

MI...None. MARINE...None.