The next storm with a target on Michigan is almost going to be a carbon copy of last week’s storm. There will just be a few differences.

Let’s split Lower Michigan into four quarters; southwest, southeast, northwest and northeast. The Upper Peninsula is easy to cover. It’s all snow in the U.P., with a widespread seven to 11 inches.

It’s the Lower Peninsula that will have the center of the storm track across it, and produce mixed precipitation.

Here are the current weather advisories for the Great Lakes region.

While the exact time advisories go into effect vary, all of the advisories and warnings start in the middle of the night Monday night. All of the advisories and warnings stretch through Wednesday morning.

The southeast quarter, including Detroit, Ann Arbor, Flint, Saginaw and Bay City are under a winter storm watch from tonight through Wednesday morning. The weather story here is again mixed types of precipitation. Freezing rain, sleet and snow tonight could change to a few hours of rain Tuesday. Then the cold air will come back in and all forms of precipitation will change to snow by Tuesday evening. When we have various forms of precipitation, it keeps any one type of precipitation from getting heavy. So expect one to two tenths of an inch of ice accumulation, and a few inches of snow. The farther north you are, as in toward the Saginaw area, the more snow you will have, with possibly up to six inches.

Southwest Lower, including Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Jackson and Muskegon, will also have a round of mixed precipitation of rain, freezing rain, sleet and snow. You are under a winter weather advisory from tonight through Wednesday morning. Expect one to two tenths of ice accumulation and two to four inches of snow by Wednesday morning. Also expect 40 mph gusts by Wednesday morning.

Northeast Lower, including Tawas, Oscoda and Alpena should have mostly snow. This will be the area that gets the heaviest snow in northern Lower, with six to 12 inches of snow. It’s another big snowmobile snow for northeast Lower Michigan.

Northwest Lower will have less ice accumulation than the last storm, but still a short window of mixed precipitation. Traverse City, Cadillac, Charlevoix and Petoskey can all expect mostly snow, with a light glaze of ice. The main focus will be snow, with five to eight inches by Wednesday morning. Wind gusts up to 40 mph will also hit northwest Lower by Wednesday morning.

So the time period of dangerous travel will be from daybreak Tuesday through noon Wednesday. We will keep you updated on any subtle changes. In general this storm is easy to understand too- everyone gets a round of dangerous travel again. The danger will increase late Tuesday and Wednesday morning, as the winds increase.

And get ready for a very similar moisture laden storm Friday into Saturday.