According to the National Weather Service, the East Lansing area can expect a shift from the 68-degree, springlike weather on Sunday to a high chance of snow or rain Monday and temperatures fluctuating between about 25 and 45 degrees for the rest of the week.

“The warm weather we’re having is being caused by really strong, gusty south winds out ahead of an approaching cold front,” said Brian Meade, senior forecaster with the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids, according to MLive.

Despite the looming cold front, East Lansing community members made the most of the warm, but windy day, as families and MSU students alike went for walks and caught a bite at restaurants with reopened outdoor seating, such as the Peanut Barrel, 521 E. Grand River Ave.

Doctoral student Andrew Woodson took advantage of the nice weather Sunday to swing by Starbucks and study in the library rather than at his home. He said in the short term, he is happy with the bursts of warm weather Michigan has been experiencing, but in the long term, he worries.
“I worry we might be experiencing the benefits of global warming,” Woodson said.

Both Woodson and political science junior Joanne Lee, an international student, both expressed some surprise and disappointment at the potential for snow to follow the nice weather of the weekend, but were happy for the warm weather anyway.

“I’m just thankful to have the warm,” Lee said. “The weather here always changes.”
For finance sophomore Shali Zhu, an international student from China, the pleasant weather of the weekend was surprisingly similar to her home region. Zhu said the weather in China is warmer this time of year than Michigan typically is.

She said although the erratic weather has seemed strange, she doesn’t mind it, as she likes both the warm and the cold.

“I’m just eager to see snow again,” Zhu said.