Power Outages

Give yourself plenty of extra time for your morning commute as a winter storm will move through tonight into tomorrow bringing heavy wet snow, freezing rain, and mixed precipitation.

Watch the beauty and fury of Lake Michigan waves being pushed by strong and gusty winds as it pummels Ludington Lighthouse.

Wind gusts are forecasted to reach as much as 60 miles per hour tonight as a new weather system pushes in bringing storms and cooler air.

The Consumers Energy information system has been showing a changing number of affected customers, at most a few hundred.

Today, residents and businesses in several areas of Calhoun County are waiting for power, mostly to the west of the City of Battle Creek

Powerful storms brought strong winds, torrential rain, hail, and power outages to Battle Creek on Wednesday.

The United States National Weather Service in Grand Rapids is forecasting a powerful storm moving through Michigan beginning late Tuesday night through Wednesday, with a second potentially powerful system moving through over the weekend.

Four counties were under Tornado Warnings at various times.

A potentially dangerous situation is unfolding in areas of West Michigan, due to the combination of excessive heat and power outages caused by severe thunderstorms early Saturday morning.

If you happen to become one of the unlucky folks, hunkering down in the dark, you may want to have the Consumers Energy Outage Map bookmarked on your mobile device.