Marquette and vicinity: Today, cold. Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. Highs around 31. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 50 percent. Tonight, bitterly cold. Partly cloudy with isolated snow showers. Lows around 9 above inland to around 16 at the shore. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 20 percent. Wednesday, cold. A 50 percent chance of snow showers. Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming cloudy. Highs around 31. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Wednesday night, mostly clear. Lows 14 to 19. West winds 5 to 10 mph.

Extended forecast: Thursday, mostly cloudy. Highs around 36. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Thursday night and Friday, mostly clear. Lows 17 to 22. Highs around 40. Friday night, mostly clear. Lows 23 to 28. Saturday, warmer. Mostly cloudy. Highs around 49. Saturday night, a chance of rain showers in the evening, then a chance of snow showers, possibly mixed with rain overnight. Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30. Chance of precipitation 30 percent. Sunday, mostly cloudy. Highs around 43. Sunday night and Monday, partly cloudy. Lows 21 to 26. Highs around 42.

Lake Superior: Small craft advisory in effect until 2 p.m. today. Early this morning, west wind 10 to 15 knots. Mostly clear. Waves 4 to 7 feet occasionally to 9 feet subsiding to 3 to 6 feet occasionally to 8 feet. Today, west wind 10 to 20 knots. Partly cloudy. Isolated snow showers in the morning, then scattered snow showers in the afternoon. Waves subsiding to 2 to 4 feet. Tonight, west wind 10 to 15 knots. Mostly cloudy with isolated snow showers. Waves subsiding to 2 to 3 feet. Wednesday, northwest wind 10 to 15 knots. Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow showers. Waves 2 to 3 feet. Wednesday night, west wind 10 to 15 knots. Mostly clear. Waves subsiding to 1 to 2 feet.

Temperatures: The average temperature Monday at the National Weather Service office in Negaunee Township was 23 degrees, 10 degrees below normal. The high Monday was 29 degrees and the overnight low was 17 degrees.

Precipitation: Monday, 0.94 inches, breaking the 1985 record of 0.87 inches for the date. Year to date, 11.22 inches. Normal to date, 8.98 inches.

Snowfall: Monday, 9.3 inches, breaking the 1996 record of 8.2 inches for the date. Season to date, 204.4 inches. Normal to date, 196.1 inches.

Sunset: 8:37 this evening.

Sunrise: 7:02 a.m. Wednesday