Lightning

Mostly they are pretty darn good with the outlooks. If anything they tend towards over forecasting (which is not a bad thing with severe weather). Just shows while we have gain a lot of knowledge there is a ways to go with the weather!!

Oh yeah I agree that turning them back on when over is not needed. They didn't do that here. I was really just referring/wondering why the were only on for ~3 minutes. In each case here, the past couple years, the warning was just as the storm was beginning or had just begun. Several years ago I had a couple with warnings that went off once the storm was basically over. I have seen significant improvement at the DTX office with storm warnings lately. Likely partially due to the radar improvements that were done in recent years.

That explains a lot. I was wondering why the turned them off seemingly so quickly during the warnings I had last couple years. Makes sense to me.

Yes it is

Grand Blanc one was about ~15-20 miles north of me. Lots of lightning and on and off brief heavy rains, with multiple rounds of storms, over the course of 2.5 hours. Thankfully I did not get anything damaging this time!!

This is why I love the weather. Always different from extremes to completely boring.

I too hate zzzzzz patterns. Luckily January around here was great. But February has been a complete zzzzzz fest so I will say I haven't minded the mild February as it has been sunny. It would have been horrible to be cold and zzzzzz.

Interesting. Outside of a stray box elder (which I see all winter long regardless of temps), there are no bugs out in my area.

For those who don't click on that link. That picture is from last year.

Climate Change is not in the news daily. Billions upon Billions of dollars are not being spent it. Weather events are never in the news. You are such a drama queen!!!

While that may be true for you and your area, it definitely is not for this area. There has been many spectacular March and April events in this area that I would love to see something similar again.

They definitely don't own my area at all. Yours sure but not here

Congratulations to our friends to the south

Nice heavy snow going through.

Always fun getting silver dollar sized flakes. I love it when you can look outside when it is dark and still see the flakes because they are so big!!

Awesome

The problem is your expectation for Clinton Twp MI are not correctly aligned with reality. You are looking for an event that would be a historic/record breaking event. Then you say because this record breaking event doesn't happen this winter sucks or that wasn't a real storm!! It has nothing to do with contentment. You can buy either Bud Light or Sam Adams at a store anywhere in the USA. Weather can't be bought and every location has specific weather patterns. If you are not going to move, you need to accept where you are and enjoy what you do get. Otherwise you are always going to basically hate the weather!!! EDIT: I know this is the B&M thread. B&M away, though I will defend Josh! You can ask Harry and Josh and some others on here. Years ago I sounded similar. I am just offering some friendly advice that has truly helped me. Not saying that I don't occasional get frustrated with the weather and will do some B&M; however; I do enjoy the weather a TON more now and I even get excited for the Chicago group (or any other poster) when they are getting blasted and I am not.

Exactly. We will have great ones and even worse ones. In 50+ years I have never seen a winter identical to any other. Going to the UP and seeing Superior is always worth it no matter the weather

Love your last statement. Exactly why I moved where I did in SE MI!!! Lost major$$ on my last house doing it too. This area gets the most snow in SE MI, greats thunderstorms (but not always) and I get to keep my kind of high paying job . If desperate for 2-3'+ event I can go to Buffalo or UP. If I want more/bigger t-storms I can storm chase and even travel to OV/MW.

We definitely have lacked good nocturnal/LLJ events in recent years. There was one really good event last year but it was down here and not up your way.

Did you have a t-storm year last year? After the dry June it changed an became active here as we were generally on the edge of the heat dome last year. Yes I do recall 1995

Do you dream of things that are a guarantee or dream of things that are infrequent and really want them???

You have to go back to 1915 with a max high of 89 degrees, at DTW, to be equal or less than last years 90F max at DTW.

Looks like 161.1 for the Keweenaw: