dmc76

Came into this thread to say. That it is a strange looking radar around CHI.

Full Sun out today. It’s been a very VERY long time since we’ve seen a full sunny day in SEMI

It was very painful. Worst 9”-10” snowstorm of my life. It's like watching your stock drop significantly after you just put a shit ton of money on. lol. It was that feeling.

i’m pretty sure the day before it started it was showing actually 12 to 18 inches before the trends NW TWC forecast was 9 to 15 inches

That was a storm. I was trying to remember the other day in Lake Orion. We ended up with around 11 inches of snow. But just to my north towards Frankenmuth they had 19 inches from that system cause that was the other location that I remember that was close to 20 inches for a storm.

Jan 4-6th. 16.8” with that system. Do you want to take away the squalls that we had early morning on the sixth? Then It was 15.3 inches. That’s a big dog. Locally

Even if we didn’t get a 6 hour dry slot or pingers whatever it was. We would’ve still ended up with 10-16” area wide. We don’t have a second moisture source.

We did have 2 shots at 20” that come to mind. 1 was in April 2005. If it happened three weeks sooner, we would’ve had 20 to 30 inches of snow but of course it happened on the last week of April that year still had 16 inches but it only collected at night. The other. The other was a perfect set up. It happened in February 2013. We had almost 2 inches of QPF temperatures around 30 to 32° for most of the event ratios were between three and four to one. Ended up with 5-6” of the wettest snow ever.

I’m pretty sure Dayton has had several storms of near 18 inches or above it

Theres definitely is an expectations of getting 20 inches or more with some of these weenies. Every single year we go and have the same conversation. It’s likely not happening ever in our lifetime.

It’s not just a Detroit thing I mean, you don’t even hear about Grand Rapids (of course they get the 1-2 punch) or Lansing or Saginaw anybody getting 20 inches of snow out of a snowstorm in Michigan it’s just not a thing here. I just know or few spots. PHN got 21 inches during the Dec 2000 storm.

You still all about the big dog, aren’t you.?. In order to get 20”+ storm u need a 2nd moisture source. The one time in recent memory that we did have over 20 inches in 1974 I believe personally it was something similar to what happened in Toronto today. we were getting an East wind/feed right off lake Erie.as well as the Atlantic/Gulf. I could be wrong but that’s what I think may have happened. I think our winters are not bad. It snows literally almost every day in a cold pattern. I must’ve used the shovel or snowblower 6/7 times in the last 10 days. some of these areas like Boston/NY/Indy they can go weeks or even entire winter with barely any snow. I’m in my 40’s as well. There was times where we were very close. everything is gotta work out perfect here.

4” in 22 hours!!!! the other day. From a squall picked 1.0” in 17 mins. lol

Just a little off