Associated Press

NEGAUNEE TOWNSHIP – Michiganians are shivering after a pre-winter cold weather system with gale-force winds broke temperature records and dumped up to 1 ½ feet of snow.

The National Weather Service reports a 49 mile-per-hour wind gust Tuesday in Charlevoix County in the northern Lower Peninsula. It says 6 p.m. temperatures statewide ranged from zero to the teens.

The weather service reports a record low high temperature of 16 degrees at its office in Marquette County's Negaunee Township near Marquette. The previous mark was 17 in 2005.

Detroit's low of 11 degrees Tuesday tied 1880's record.

The weather service reports 18 inches of fresh snow Tuesday in upper Michigan's Houghton and Gogebic counties.

Garden City police say they're awaiting autopsy results for a woman found dead outside a house in the Detroit suburb.