michsnowfreak

Theres plenty of snow already on the ground ahead of the storm. Fly in sunday morning and you won't know the difference.

Wind chills hovering just above zero in the sun today for the last time for several days. Even the sun looks cold.

Sun came out today but the wind was biting and the slow decent of temps has been ongoing with falling continuing all day tmrw.

@beavis1729 I thought of you. This is deep deep winter. A thick drifty blanket of snow outside and I had to postpone a sledding promise to the nephews Saturday because its going to be TOO COLD to play in the snow!

Been a very solid winter here in southeast Michigan. And as we now hit the dead of winter, the cold is actually getting dangerous. Postponed plans to take nephews sledding Saturday because -35° windchills made even worse flying down a hill can literally be instant frostbite. Its been snowing near daily and we should even get in on the big storm to our south. Deep, deep winter. With many areas in the midwest/east (where 95% of this forum lives) facing a 2nd consecutive winter of below avg temps, it definitely is a buzzkill to a handful of posters in this thread. You can only talk about warm anomalies on other parts of the planet or snowless western mountains so much before its just time to hibernate until a torch comes.

I know right? Another dusting this morning lol. I will say though...there's definitely a sizable contingent who do like winter. I mean obviously still the minority, but a lot more than just us weather weenies.

I dont like to jump on ratios too much. Sometimes when its bitterly cold you get sandy sugar snow instead of fluff. Either way, good trends.

Let's reel this one in. Going to need to add MI to the title.

Jokes aside, it pretty much does at times. While the difference in annual snowfall is only about 7" more at DTW than ORD, the days with mood flakes and overcast skies is a big difference. My brother brings that up constantly. He lived in Chicago for a decade and this is his 2nd winter back in MI. This year has been a different animal. The roads are slick nearly daily, from the constant dustings in Dec to the surplus of blowing and drifting snow in Jan. Salt contractors are making a fortune.

Total snow today 2.4" DTW (27.9" season) and 2.3" here (28.4" season). After a very rough week of forecasts, DTX did a good job with this event. Most places saw 1.5-3.5" snow.

We always get lake modification here. But our forecast low Saturday of -10° would be the coldest since 2019. Nice thick blanket of snow is in place.

Over the past 20 years, Detroit has averaged 6.8" more annual snowfall and 5 more annual 1"+ snowcover days despite a DJF avg temp 1.3° warmer than Chicago. Obviously it isn't a huge difference, and it shouldn't be with the two places latitude and proximity. But the same thing goes for big dogs. It isnt like Chicago gets one every winter. Other than those few, the overall snowstorm climo is also quite similar.

I think he knows that and is poking you lol.. Detroit usually gets more snow than Chicago despite a few epic Chicago storms, and most here know that.

Been a good winter, why not!

Was worried about a bust with the hrrr moving everything north, but snowing and blowing nicely. Approaching 2" new. Very wintry out