WestMichigan

Ended up with the 4th cloudiest January in GRR with only 8% of possible sunshine.  It was a snowy month thought with 31.3" erasing at least some of the yearly snowfall deficit.  Temps ended up 2.3° warmer than normal.  It would have been nice to hold on the the middle of the month weather a little longer.

Does 1.99 or 2.00 really matter other than for classification purposes?  I don't think the atmosphere is going to say oh, it is only 1.99 so I need to behave differently.

4 minutes ago, sbnwx85 said:

We’re getting some unofficial reports in our newsroom of 2 feet of snow in Michigan City. 19” in New Buffalo.

Anything in South Bend?

6z GFS doesn't look too bad.  There is some ice, but nothing gets out of control.

16 hours ago, sethtoast said:

Lake Effect still ongoing from last Friday's system and subsequent cold air mass. Was down to 1/4 mile visibility just from falling snow until about 1 this afternoon. 22" IMBY so far and still going pretty strong. 

 

I pre-emptively apologize for having the best winter wx climo on the subforum

Similar here but not quite as much.  GRR is reporting 13" snow depth and a peak of 15" a couple of days ago.  28.6" so far this month at the airport which brings us to less than 9" below normal for the season.  Quite the turnaround for a sub 2" December.  Even the monthly temperature departures might go negative after today.  This has been a great week for the west wind favored LES areas for sure.

SE Ohio heading into WV looks to fare fairly well.

After 25+ inches for the month, GRR is now within 10" of the normal YTD snowfall.

Went from 12 to 1 with a strong south wind.  Not often that a S wind brings cold air around here.  Cold air wrapping around the lake does weird things at times.

11 hours ago, weatherbo said:

Ended up with close to 30 inches here.  Beast of a storm.

Is it still snowing up there?  We are still getting snow here.  Somewhere around 2 feet seems like a good guess but with the wind I feel like Hawkeye saying I really have no idea how much has fallen.

1 hour ago, Harry said:

Now to wait for the backside and lake effect.. 

need to really cash in on this part since the initial phase was lower than expected 

1 minute ago, Powerball said:

lol...

Do you actually think that is accurate?

Not sure how any of you are measuring snow.  Any flake that lands in my yard is melting in Lake Michigan about 30 minutes later with all this wind.

The lack of agreement between the models even this close to an event is surprising. 

Fighting virga here.  Every once in a while I see some flakes but nothing of substance yet.

51 minutes ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

Trends are not good for Minneapolis. Rug getting pulled again?

you need a good clipper

1 minute ago, Michigander said:

GRR says they will issue updated headlines mid afternoon. Any chance of Blizzard warnings?
 

 

Knowing GRR I would say probably not

Winter finally shows up in the UP

5 minutes ago, weatherbo said:

Nice!

GRR hasn't posted any maps yet.  I think they are too hesitant to make a call right now.  The days long LES after this should really help stack up the snow.  Might be time to break out the XC skis.

Not to interrupt the Chicago discussion but on the East side of Lake Michigan it is looking pretty good.

5 hours ago, dilly84 said:

Yep. Winter is dead here. Idk if it's a climate shift or what, but there's gotta be a reason we rarely get any storms of 6" or more any longer.

6z GFS says wait a minute, and it may be the kiss of death, but it looks like Central OH might get some snow.

1 minute ago, frostfern said:

I want a thing with a big blade to brake off packed down snow and ice.  Snowblower is kind of useless if you procrastinate and pack the snow down hard by driving over it.  With winters lately I’m used to just driving over the snow and waiting for it to melt.

I was not sure it was going to melt before the coming cold so I had to chip it all off manually so that it doesn’t become a skating rink.  I somehow injured my rotator cuff shoving the shovel into the ice.  Ugh.  Maybe should have salted it first to get it softer.

I have a 54" blade but a lot of the time a blower would be much better.

7 minutes ago, Stevo6899 said:

Dtw crew would take the 18z rgem and run. Not as wound up and east.

RGEM and ICON buth have less QPF and even with the RGEM east solution snow totals are much lower in MI.

GRR goes with a watch.  Now to see if they can actually go with more than an advisory if this pans out.

HRRR says warm air for the win across all of southern Michigan and Illinois.  Not sure how much I believe it but it is a different solution for sure.

3 minutes ago, madwx said:

Hoping for some sunshine with this bitter cold stretch upcoming. Definitely makes the days more tolerable 

You have a much better chance on that side of the lake than I do over here.