375 FXUS63 KDTX 191653 AFDDTXArea Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac MI 1253 PM EDT Fri Sep 19 2025
.KEY MESSAGES...
- Dry today and most of tomorrow, with a low chance for showers starting late tomorrow night.
- Warmer Sunday with afternoon showers and storms likely, then cooler and wetter Monday and Tuesday.
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.AVIATION...
SE Michigan is influenced by both northern Ontario high pressure and a front stalled just south of the Ohio border this afternoon through tonight. Ongoing NE boundary layer flow is rich enough in moisture, especially with a boost from Lake Huron, for borderline MVFR/VFR stratocu as heating ramped up since sunrise. Coverage is projected to hold mainly north of PTK while trending more into VFR this afternoon. Otherwise, the stalled front occasionally produces mid level VFR clouds across the area with a component of Lake Erie MVFR stratocu also possible in a veering wind trend later tonight and Saturday morning.
For DTW/D21 Convection... No thunderstorms expected tonight and Saturday.
DTW THRESHOLD PROBABILITIES...
* None.
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.PREV DISCUSSION... Issued at 353 AM EDT Fri Sep 19 2025
DISCUSSION...
For this morning... The combination of prior day precipitation through the Tri-Cities and portions of the Thumb, coupled with weak moisture advection from Lake Huron with the light northeasterly flow, has brought a combination of low stratus and variable fog for these aforementioned locations. Some continued expansion of the above will be possible through the southern portions of the cwa fueled more by the calmer winds and radiational cooling. Daytime heating through the late morning and afternoon hours will aid in lifting ceilings and eventually scouring out cloud cover as an encroaching upper- level low over the Plains reinforces a shortwave ridge across the Great Lakes. This will promote dry weather, outside of a very low (
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