Northern Michigan will have a low chance of viewing the northern lights Saturday night, with a G1 minor solar storm expected, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center. The stronger the solar storm, the farther south the aurora will appear.

A Feb. 21-22, 1971 outbreak claimed 121 lives from Texas to North Carolina, the deadliest February rash of tornadoes in recent times. One F4 tornado near Oxford, Mississippi, killed 58 and injured 800 others, the deadliest single February tornado since 1950.

So you might want to take this with a grain of salt, but the latest seasonal outlook for February, March and April that takes us through the end of winter and leads us into Meteorological Spring (which is March, April, May) has most of Southeast Michigan with near average temperatures and above-average precipitation.

A La Niña winter just started, but it isn't expected to last long. National forecasters are already looking ahead to the spring season.

On Feb. 9, 1934, Vanderbilt, in Otsego County, recorded the all-time coldest temperature in Michigan — minus 51 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

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The extended weather data continues to show a different weather pattern compared to what we've had in January.

A family of three played on shelf ice on Lake Michigan on Saturday as a drone photographer captured the scene.

Here's what the Michigan weather outlook for February, March, April says about temperatures and precipitation amounts.

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The next few weeks look quite a bit milder than last week, but still near normal on temperatures. The Great Lakes ice cover will continue to grow, but probably at a much slower pace. It will take a long-lasting deep cold spell in early February for above normal ice cover to occur on the Great Lakes.

Watch as the weather pattern realigns to a milder westerly flow that can bring a little more moisture our way, either rain or snow.