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If temperatures were low enough, this weekend’s weather forecast would bring a lot of snow to metro Detroit.

Dave Kook, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in White Lake Township, said the expected 2-4 inches of rain could have amounted to as much as 10 feet of snow given the right conditions.

But that won’t happen, Kook said. Because the nature of the system is more like a springtime scenario, the system can hold more moisture than it would if temperatures were colder. If the temperature were cold enough for snow, Kook said it would not be bringing in nearly the precipitation expected.

The heaviest of the rains will begin Friday and continue through Sunday with possible ice and snow in the mix, Kook said. The rain could transition into freezing rain or snow, depending on the area, by Saturday morning.

Kook said on the coldest side of this weekend’s system, at most it would be around 1 foot of snow. In general, Kook said the snow-to-rain ratio sits at 10:1, with 10 inches of snow for every 1 inch of rain, but can fluctuate anywhere from a ratio of 5:1 to as [much] as 30:1 depending on how wet the snow is.  …