118 FXUS63 KGRR 080658 AFDGRR Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Grand Rapids MI 258 AM EDT Fri May 8 2026 .KEY MESSAGES... - Northwest Flow Regime Continues && .DISCUSSION... Issued at 257 AM EDT Fri May 8 2026 - Northwest Flow Regime Continues Upper troughing across the Great Lakes will persist into next week. Temperatures will run cooler than normal with Frost/Freeze potential or Saturday, Sunday and Monday nights. Clipper type lows will occasionally bring showers in a northwest flow regime. A shortwave trough moves through tonight with scattered showers into Saturday morning. The pattern repeats for Tuesday into Tuesday night. The Tuesday low should have deeper moisture to work with, but is moving fast enough to limit the chances of excessive rainfall. && .AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z SATURDAY/... Issued at 141 AM EDT Fri May 8 2026 VFR conditions continue through Friday night. There could be some shallow ground fog at JXN and AZO between 10 and 12Z if skies are clear and radiational cooling conditions are optimal. This was left out of the forecast because of uncertainty of cloud cover overnight. Winds will be near clam overnight then southwest AOB 10 knots on Friday. There could be some gusts over 20 knots at times this afternoon. && .MARINE... Issued at 257 AM EDT Fri May 8 2026 Held off on a SCA for tonight as conditions will be marginal but it is possible that south/southwest winds will gust to 25 knots this evening north of Whitehall where waves could also top 4 feet, especially around Big and Little Sable Points.Conditions improve Saturday night and Sunday as pressure gradient relaxes. && .FIRE WEATHER... Issued at 257 AM EDT Fri May 8 2026 Lowered NBM dew points for today given soundings showing mixing heights rising to 7500 feet. This yields Min RH to around 25 percent this afternoon. Deep mixing will yield winds of 20 knots at the surface as well, so we will have to monitor for RFW criteria being reached this afternoon, && .GRR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MI...Frost Advisory until 9 AM EDT this morning for MIZ037-038- 043>046. Freeze Warning until 9 AM EDT this morning for MIZ039-040. MARINE...None. && $$ DISCUSSION...Ostuno AVIATION... MARINE...Ostuno FIRE WEATHER...Ostuno

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