michsnowfreak

It would be so fun to measure snow there for a full winter season, every 6 hours lol. My NWS snow stick goes to 40" which is plenty for 99% of places...but not your area!

Picked up a light dusting of snow from squalls today (0.1"). Windy and cold now. As expected a very meh storm here.

I consider this a very good winter with a shitty ending (in southeast MI). But regardless, once we get to this point im fine either way. If its gonna warm up, fine, but ill never say no to snow.

Anthony. You MUST visit the U.P. in winter. Its incredible.

14-24" in marquette but 30" in ishpheming near marquette.

Im super jealous of this entire storm (well, the snow aspect lol)...but I am happy for you. This is WELL deserved and overdue. Enjoy! Here, we started with a T of snow yesterday morning, temps spiked to 70F (I think I mayve stayed in 60s), we got 0.06" of rain overnight and now temp is rapidly dropping with strong winds. Hoping for snow squalls later.

What do you mean they use 6+ as standard? Id say its subjective. Woth xmacis, you can see a locations avg 1+, 3+, 6+ etc. This winter DTW had 21 days of depth 6"+

DTW had a trace of light snow early this morning. It was 40° at 11am and has shot up to 70° at 4pm

Yup. 4 of the 5 were cold winters here. The huge exception being 1889-90 which was also warm and equally snowless. This year was way more extreme than normal, but let's not forget a general rule of thumb that relative to climo, a good winter east is usually meh west and vice versa.

"Pretty reliable" is an understatement. The least snowy winter on record there is 80" in 1930-31 & 2nd place is 100" in 1899-00. Since 1957, the least snowy is 2023-24 with 153.4". The snowiest is 390.4" in 1978-79.

Ive actually compiled data on SDDs ever since you told me what they were. Solid for DTW....DJF sdds were 297.

What was your peak depth? Detroit peaked at 9" Jan 26-29 and Feb 7.

Exactly. I remember feb 2015 so vividly because first we had the 16.7" snowstorm then the insane cold. My grandpa was near the end of his life so we went to celebrate his feb 19th birthday despite wind chill warnings to not go out, much less for elderly. But other than being a historic month, it caused no lasting harm. The two week march inferno in 2012 literally ruined the entire 2012 growing season for fruit growers.

Agree. When you talk march 2012 you aren't talking mild, when you talk feb 2015 you aren't talking cold. Youre talking historic on a local level. And theres no sign of that here. For the SW its even worse because they are getting their march 2012 now,.but they already average way warmer.

Not even close for the Great Lakes and northeast. The west is a different story.