Michigan is forecast a light round of snow, 1-2 inches, on Tuesday, March 17, as a major winter storm finally begins moving east.

TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Airlines are canceling flights at Traverse City’s airport today as a winter storm continues to bear down on Northern Michigan. Most of today’s arrivals and departures at Cherry Capital Airport are canceled amid snowfall and high winds,

Much of northern Michigan is under intense winter weather advisories as storms hit the state and upper peninsula.

More than 11.5 million people are under blizzard warnings, another 4.3 million are under winter storm warnings, and about 20.6 million are under an extreme heat watch, according to forecasters.

With a blizzard burying the upper Midwest, wildfires spreading across the Plains, dangerous flooding in Hawaii and triple-digit temperatures in the Southwest, we followed wild weather all across the country.

Now that the precipitation pattern and temperature pattern are a little more certain, the winter storm warning has been upgraded to an ice storm warning for 10 counties in northern Lower Michigan.

Winter weather slammed the Chicago area early Monday morning, with blizzard warnings in effect for some outlying areas.