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Great Lakes ice coverage peaked at 54.8% this week. After a near average winter in 2024-25, this winter ice coverage is solidly above the historical average around 40%. Superior is now half covered, with Erie nearly 100% covered. I went down to a park this afternoon where the Detroit River turns into Lake Erie. The ice is said to be 12-28" thick. Seeing an ice covered Erie is beautiful, even though that stops its Lake snow machine. https://bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/ice-grips-great-lakes-with-erie-nearly-fully-covered/

Back in Minnesota, the thaw is on. Full sun and mid 40s today was awesome. Sad seeing these old historic farmsteads turn into suburbs, but such is the pace of progress

Even if this one mostly misses us, there should be more chances as the month goes on.

Pretty sick hour on radar. animated.mov

18z Euro AI & AI EPS both keep hope alive for southern PA as well.

Not really. Elevation only helps so much. You have to go 100 miles south of us to even feel it.

At this point I just pray for the dryness to stop. I don't care of it's rain, I just want 5-10" of qpf Sent from my SM-S731U using Tapatalk

Went to Lake Erie Metropark late this afternoon. Frozen Lake Erie is a beautiful scene.

I like where that 540 line is

Just like anything else in this world. Rush Rush Rush. I remember the days when we made threat threads two days or less before a threat.

And the system won't be occluded for another 2-3 days

11 inches in 1 hr in Newry where I was

Feb 5, 2001 was an incredible storm for its intense snowfall rates. Almost all of that fell in under 12 hours.

18z Euro keeps the hope alive for the Sunday chance for southern PA.

It isn't over ...til it's over!

I have zero recollection of this. I remember 06 pretty well.

we got a thread for this piece of crap?

I was supposed to get 24-30

I could only work up the energy for a cursory glance. I also was just damn happy to be out of one of Dante's circles. Sent from my SM-S731U using Tapatalk

The 1980s are pretty cold on that graph. The defining feature is really no huge torches of any kind outside of the super Nino ‘82-83 winter. So while they didn’t have utterly frigid winters post-82, they consistently were below normal on temps.

If they were using the AI model it would be higher totals earlier too.

Knowing you, you've probably already researched it. There's quite interesting history that goes along with opioids and opiates being used as cough suppressants that makes for some good reading while you're down. I've always found the history on opioids and opiates interesting to begin with. From Asia, Nazi Germany to the modern day streets of Kesington, Philadelphia, it has quite the interesting and horrifing history.

Damn I only got 13 and I was pretty stoked considering i was expecting 10-16

The Euro AI has most of our area in the .25-.5mm/hr average from 7pm Sunday to 1am Monday if I'm reading correctly

Feels like the peak of winter here. 11” from the clipper and following upslope. Just shy of 30” otg and over 100” on the season now. Deep deep winter and piles are getting large. Pic from last night.