Lightning

What a truly wonderful day out today. Light winds, full sun and 50s

I hear you and you have good chance. Not gonna happen here. Plenty of 30s to go including tonight's 32F forecast. Shoot my area gets 30s at least once in the summer months (June and August last year)!!

Down to 24.6F. Now I will need to wait a bit to see what got damaged on the peach, apple and cherry trees I have. Always a problem when they bloom early like this.

Got 0.4" last night with April sitting @ 3.4"

Good garden type storm here. Winds at most 35MPH. 1/2" of rain. 1 awesome lightning strike.

Models tend to overdue the QPF for our area for sure with these large systems. I have learned to cut it in half instantly and even then know that might be the high side. Last weeks big system was forecast to be 1.5"+ QPF but I got under 0.5" from it. This area in SE MI (especially north of I96) does not do as well with these large systems. I believe it has to do with the convection to the south messing with the moisture transport or other dynamics. By the time it gets here it is a precipitation shield is a mess. My hope for 1.5-2" was shattered the moment DTX put this out

Pretty darn awesome

128 for me ; if I am around ...... ohhh forget it.

0.3" here since Sunday evening

What an incredible storm. A whole 0.15" of rain!! A shower or two to go an then 24-36 hours of dry slot!!

It definitely melted quickly but not that quickly. I recall the highest unofficial reports being 27" The storm was all over the UP news reports. https://www.weather.gov/mqt/May1990Snowstorm30thAnniversary I remember it well. It was on a Thursday. Friday afternoon/evening we were on the Breakers Beach playing Frisbee and volleyball and a bonfire of course. It was in the 60s.

Might as well. Let's do this and then move on to spring!!

I like to see this as it will help get the UP and northern WI with the Drought situation. It does seem like the some of the biggest storms lately have been Spring. 2 of the 5 years I live in the UP they had major Snowstorms April and May. Biggest was May 10, 1990 which closed NMU summer classes for the first time ever for snow. Driving home from MTU a couple weeks late we could still see snow piles.

I hate April's. This week is exactly why. I will be surprised if I get more than 0.5" QPF from last night (got 0") through Friday. Most surrounding area's will easily have >1".

The shift has been big that is for sure. What a kick in the pants. Last nights system to far S and now this one is going to far NW. April in SE MI

South solutions seem to be more likely. Hope the GFS is right but hard to ever put trust in the GFS!! It will like be caving today to the other models solution.

Nice event!! Should help at least a little bit with the current Drought situation.

Ignoring the Heavy Snow part the rest of it is pretty impressive for that line of 'storms'. 44mph gust with visibility under a mile!! Edit: Not surprised as I have seen snow reported from this site many times when it's not snowing. Alma does it too.

This morning was pretty sad here with a whole tenth of an inch. Now to wait for the line crossing lower Michigan right now. Hoping it holds together and has at least some CG with it.

Can't say I was thrilled reading this in the SPC write up: and much of the convection may not even deepen enough to produce lightning

Just using this list... Worst in my life was => 11.) 20.0" - 1982-83. This winter was pure evil. To go for the record low and have it swiped out in the end. Next would be => 20.) 25.1" - 1988-89. It was huge LES year. MTU neared the record; unfortunately it was one year to early for me. Then comes => 18.) 23.7" - 1999-00. In general that winter just sucked. Interestingly it was sandwiched between to incredible periods events. January 99 & Nov./Dec. 2000 16.) 23.4" - 1997-98 => This winter was so overly forecasted to be warm that it didn't really bother me. 19.) 24.1" - 2003-04 => Detroit bad winter; not the norther burbs!! Ones not on this list. 95-96 ... only saving grace was March!! 11-12 ... meh; very boring winter overall. Morch made for an interesting finish (but very bad for local fruit industry).

I know what you mean. April is when the GLs do a number on us in many parts MI.

The eclipse is way too far away to have a forecast with that level of definition. I am sure next week a thread will be going for it. I am also waiting to narrow it in what I will do. You don't have to lurk. It is mostly friendly bantering with a bunch of weather geeks here.

I am going to go as a C around here. Snow: Oct/Nov/Jan: all above normal snow. Dec: a bit below. February: nothing needs to be said. March is looking basically normal-ish. Incredibly I currently stand a bit over 50" of snow. Reason for this high of grade: Really did awesome during that January stretch. While February didn't do anything winter like there was lots of sun, several great dog walking days and 2 separate thunderstorm events. Yes this actually helped because if it was raw and cloudy it would have dropped my grade!! I actually might end up around my normal ~60". Reason for not a higher grade: Very poor snow cover. Absolutely horrid winter sports. Green Christmas. Unless something "major" happens this will likely be my final grade.

Back end was a bit lame here with about an inch. Fun snow day.