News Photo by Crystal Nelson Penny Malenfant, of Alpena, shovels the sidewalk near her house on Monday at the corner of 2nd Avenue and Spratt Street.

ALPENA — Police responded to a number of early-morning traffic crashes as a mid-November storm dropped several inches of snow on Northeast Michigan on Monday.

“We responded to several accidents this morning that occurred within the city and the county due to bad road conditions,” Lt. Eric Hamp, of the Alpena Police Department, said Monday.

Hamp said no one was injured in those crashes, but reminded motorists to adjust their driving habits to the road conditions, leave extra time to get to their destination, and make sure the headlights of their vehicles are on.

He said drivers with automatic headlights sometimes think their headlights turn on automatically, but they don’t because it’s daylight out.

“With visibility not being as clear as it should be with deteriorating conditions from the snow, we would ask that folks just double-check and make sure that their headlights are on,” he said.

The storm also caused Alpena Public Schools to cancel all afterschool activities on Monday.

The snowstorm dropped 2.4 inches of snow on Alpena as of 7 p.m. Monday, according to the National Weather Service in Gaylord. Snow still was falling throughout the evening.

The Weather Service issued a special statement at noon Monday warning motorists in Alpena, Montmorency, and Presque Isle counties to be prepared for changing road conditions. A winter weather advisory was issued around 3:30 p.m., calling for another inch of snow, and remained in effect until 7 p.m.

Meteorologist Andy Sullivan said it’s “not totally unusual” to receive snow in November, but it is unusual to get the arctic air this early.

The cold weather will continue on Tuesday, Sullivan said. Meteorologists were predicted hundreds of mid-November cold-weather records to be broken across the country this week.

In Alpena, a high of 22 degrees is expected today, according to the Weather Service. Snow is forecast through Wednesday.

“Even though it’s certainly cold and it’s going to continue the next couple of days, there’s hope on the horizon,” he said, noting the weather will be milder next week.

Crystal Nelson can be reached at 989-358-5687 or cnelson@thealpenanews.com.