Metro Detroit Weather: Another Couple Inches Of Snow This Weekend

METRO DETROIT — More accumulating snow is on tap for metro Detroit this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

A clipper system will sweep through the metro Detroit area Friday afternoon with temperatures reaching the low 30s, according to the National Weather Service.

Forecasters expect the fast moving system to cross sometime in the late afternoon hours and leave roughly 1 inch of fresh snow on the ground, according to the National Weather Service.

A stronger snowmaker will roll through the metro Detroit area Saturday night and bleed over into Sunday morning with temperatures in the mid 20s, according to the National Weather Service.

Forecasters expect the system to dump between 1 and 3 inches of snow north of Interstate 94 and between 2 and 5 inches of snow farther north toward Michigan 59 in the metro Detroit region, according to the National Weather Service.

Here's the National Weather Service's extended forecast for the metro Detroit area:

Friday: Snow likely, mainly after 5 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 33 degrees. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 11 to 20 miles per hour, with gusts as high as 31 miles per hour. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a steady temperature around 29 degrees. West wind 6 to 11 miles per hour becoming south in the afternoon.

Sunday: A chance of snow before 1 p.m. Cloudy, with a high near 34 degrees. North northwest wind around 10 miles per hour. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent.

Monday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 25 degrees.

Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 20 degrees.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 25 degrees.