Marquette and vicinity: Today, cold. Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. Highs around 31. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 50 percent. Tonight, cold. Mostly clear. Lows around 13 inland to around 19 at the shore. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Thursday, partly cloudy. Highs around 36. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Thursday night, mostly clear. Lows 17 to 22. West winds 5 to 10 mph.

Extended forecast: Friday, mostly sunny. Highs around 40. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Friday night, clear. Lows around 25. Saturday, warmer, cloudy. Highs around 49. Saturday night, a 30 percent chance of rain showers in the

evening. Mostly cloudy. Lows around 29. Sunday and Sunday night, mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and snow showers. Highs around 41. Lows around 25. Monday, mostly cloudy. Highs around 40. Monday night, partly cloudy. Lows around 25. Tuesday, a chance of rain and snow showers in the morning, then a chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Partly cloudy. Highs around 46. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.

Lake Superior: Early this morning, west wind 10 to 15 knots. Mostly clear with isolated snow showers. Waves 2 to 4 feet. Today, west wind 10 to 15 knots veering northwest 10 to 20 knots in the afternoon. Partly cloudy with isolated snow showers. Waves subsiding to 2 to 3 feet, then building to 2 to 4 feet. Tonight, west wind 10 to 15 knots. Partly cloudy. Waves subsiding to 2 to 3 feet. Thursday, northwest wind 10 to 20 knots. Partly cloudy. Waves building to 3 to 5 feet occasionally to 7 feet. Thursday night, west wind less than 10 knots with gusts up to 18 knots. Mostly clear. Waves subsiding to 1 to 2 feet.

Temperatures: The average temperature Tuesday at the National Weather Service office in Negaunee Township was 17 degrees, 20 degrees below normal. The high Tuesday was 26 degrees and the overnight low was 7 degrees, breaking the 2008 low temperature record of 9 degrees for the date.

Precipitation: Tuesday, trace. Year to date, 11.22 inches. Normal to date, 9.08 inches.

Snowfall: Tuesday, trace. Season to date, 204.4 inches. Normal to date, 196.6 inches.

Sunset: 8:39 this evening.

Sunrise: 7 a.m. Thursday