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Grand Traverse Emergency Management encourages people to stay off the roads

  Weather is likely to be especially dangerous overnight in the Grand Traverse Bay region. Grand Traverse Emergency Management asks people to avoid driving or going out unprotected, especially after midnight tonight through mid-Saturday morning.

If there's no other choice, they say to plan ahead layer your clothes and place a small emergency kit, including extra clothes, hats, gloves and blankets in your car.

Snow and winds are expected to intensify overnight, says Andy Sullivan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gaylord.

“After midnight really the wind’s goingto pick up. The snow could increase. Lower visibilities could create near white-out conditions, especially into Saturday morning with dangerously low wind-chill factors through the day, into Saturday night and  Sunday morning as well.”

Sullivan says those conditions will be worst in the Traverse City-area. Between three and six inches of snow could fall through Saturday afternoon.

An arctic cold front is expected to stick around through Sunday with wind chills at their coldest Saturday afternoon into Sunday. Some areas cold see wind chills as low as 40 degrees below zero.