Good morning.

I'm Cedric and This is your EM Morning Brief for Wednesday, 14 January 2026.

Arctic air pushes south and east today, turning lake effect snow on along the Great Lakes and dropping wind chills to single digits or below zero in spots.

The Weather Prediction center keeps excessive rainfall probabilities near zero and the Storm Prediction center calls for no severe thunderstorms today.

The Coast Guard restores full buoy tender capacity across Oceania as USCGC Hickory arrives in Guam, improving aids to navigation support in the Western Pacific.

Mariners there should expect routine servicing ops to ramp back up a magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck of Willits, California on Tuesday at 1:10pm Pacific Time.

Light shaking is reported.

FEMA meanwhile issued a new mapping update for Pima County, Arizona.

Local officials and residents should review preliminary flood maps and prepare for the appeal period.

Let's run through the States Northern California experiences a light but widely felt quake sequence near Willits.

USGS pins the mainshock at magnitude 4.4 approximately 9 km east south east of Willits at 1:10pm Pacific Time Tuesday.

Depth of approximately 7.8 km.

A reviewed magnitude 3.8 aftershock followed at 2:51pm no damage reports from local officials as of this morning.

DHS Maritime Enforcement the Coast Guard reports an interdiction of 15 suspected migrants about 24 miles southwest of San Clemente island on Tuesday morning.

Additional patrols are active off Southern California.

Indiana Lake effect snow intensifies today along and east of Lake Michigan.

NWS Northern Indiana maintains a winter storm warning for northern Laporte and St. Joseph counties through Thursday early afternoon with 35 to 40 mile per hour gusts blowing snow near zero, visibilities in bands and several inches of accumulation.

Michigan Arctic air crosses the lakes today with lake effect snow and falling temperatures.

NWS Gaylord highlights blustery conditions, blowing snow and single digit teens wind chills across northern lower and eastern upper Michigan.

Travel impacts persist into Thursday morning as bands waver farther south and west.

NWS Grand Rapids notes a winter weather advisory along the lakeshore with locally heavy bands and gusts to 40 mph.

Berrien Cass sit near the warning area bordering Indiana.

New York Two zones to watch in the Adirondacks North Country.

NWS Albany issues a winter weather advisory this evening through Thursday evening for Herkimer and Hamilton counties.

Light to moderate snow with slick travel on secondary roads off lakes.

Erie In Ontario.

NWS Buffalo keeps multiple winter weather advisories in place today into early Friday for Wyoming southern Erie, Oswego, Jefferson and Lewis with classic banding gusty winds and rapid visibility drops.

All other states have no significant updates in the last 24 hours.

We'll keep monitoring official alerts and update as conditions evolve.

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Stay safe.