High Wind — Otsego, Michigan

2025-03-15 · Otsego, Michigan

Event narrative

Wind equipment at the NWS Gaylord, MI 9miles SSW of Gaylord, MI recorded a gust to 64mph.

Wider weather episode

An unseasonably strong low pressure system developed as it crosses the Upper Midwest through the day on the 15th, resulting in an area of widespread strong winds crossing the Upper Great Lakes. This system also carried with it large amounts of smoke from wildfires and dust from recent dust storms over the central and southwestern US that had lofted significant amounts of dust into the atmosphere, resulting in an unusually hazy day for mid March with reduced visibility at the surface, as well as dirty rain -- raindrops that had formed around dust particles, fell, and once evaporated, left behind a layer of dust on surfaces. Temperatures again reached into the 60s and 70s across parts of the area ahead of the cold front.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1272586. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.