Weather - 1/1/08

Welcome to the new year (it will be hard getting used to writing/typing 2008)! The weather in the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan this afternoon hasn't been too overly exciting so far. The much hyped lake effect snow event has been nonexistent thus far. Only 1-2 inches of snow has fallen in certain areas in the central U.P. Snows are expected to pick up this evening and overnight; dropping as much as five to eight inches of snow in the favored snow belt areas. Temperatures have remained in the middle 20's for much of the day, but they are expected to drop as night time approaches.