michsnowfreak

Yeah deep winter here. Loving it but a thaw is overdue. Tons of nickel and dimes to keep the snow fresh. Two largest snowdalls here since mid January were 6.1" & 4.9".

After 24 consecutive days with snowfall, yesterday was the first day since January 13th that Detroit saw no snowfall.

Fantastic pics!

Omg I need that! I need an inhaler by the time I reach the top of a hill when sledding

Its been a fantastic winter for cold, snowfall, and snowcover. Just need the cherry on top (big storm). Would love to see that end of Feb or Mar.

Michigan is probably just as LGBT friendly if not more than Illinois outside of Chicago. Chicago obviously is where it's at for the gay pride. I actually met @A-L-E-K at a baseball game years ago while i was in town and explored boystown after the game.

I've been a weather observer for 30 years. I live in an area that would be considered quite cold and snowy to the average American. The fact that the 3 climatologically coldest weeks of the year this year were the 3rd coldest on record IS impressive. The AWSSI winter severity index has this winter as "extreme". It doesn't change the warmth in other places which is oh so predictably constantly being brought up, it doesn't change cc, but I dont understand why weather forums suddenly become climate change lessons during times of regional cold. Why every arctic blast has to be scrutinized for its longevity or regional coverage. The hey day of weather forums as weather forums is LONG gone.

I always tell my brother. You want a mild winter? Say goodbye to the sun.

Cold winter days feature some of the deepest blue skies.

Went to a party at a boat club yesterday. 2nd floor patio. Closed for winter. But I couldn't resist checking out the snow drifts on it.

https://x.com/wxjerdman/status/2019729810914992195 I knew it was cold but didn't realize the impressive nature of it. January 15 - February 4 is the coldest 3 weeks of the year on avg to begin with. 2026 now ranks 3rd coldest for that 3 week stretch at Detroit in 153 years of record. Only 1918 & 1963 were colder.

Wow thanks for posting this. I knew it was cold but didn't realize the impressive nature of it. @bluewave frequently mentions that cold anamolies are short in duration. This is the opposite. January 15 - February 4 is the coldest 3 weeks of the year on avg to begin with. 2026 now ranks 3rd coldest for that 3 week stretch at Detroit in 153 years of record. Only 1918 & 1963 were colder. Pittsburgh also ranks 3rd in 152 years of record. Cleveland 4th in 156 years. Toledo 6th in 153 years. And even NYC 17th in 158 years. @FPizz @mitchnick @MJO812

Our depths been hovering between 8-9" the last 10 days or so too.

Forgot to post these guys yesterday. Dusk at the park means chow time.

April is one of my least favorite months (Apr and Aug). I was recalling recent April snowfalls and frigid Opening Days moreso than the monthly temp departure. A closer look shows that in the last 10 Aprils, 4 were colder than avg, 1 avg, 5 warmer than avg. But regardless my stance remains. Calling for a torch month 2 months out with no basis other than a gut feeling is automatically wrong. I wouldn't have even responded if someone said "id lean warm for April". But torch? Ill wait and see.

Im the same lol, I want BN temps all year. Your area is undoubtedly beautiful...in fact...my mom and I always talk about a trip to Savannah but the heat is what turns us off....but you sound like you belong in the north haha. You would have absolutely froze up here in 2023-24. Like you said, everything is relative.

Recent Aprils have been cool more often than not. Looking back at La Nina Aprils, its a very wide variety of results, everything from near-record cold to near-record warm, although the colder ones outweighed the warm ones. CFS seasonal has a cold April. Euro seasonal has average. Cansips has cold in NE and avg to slightly mild midwest. Now, Im still waiting to hear what what we are basing a torch April on? I mean, torch implies at least what, top-10 warmth?

A clipper in some form or another for Friday has been on the models for a solid week but they have handled it TERRIBLY, even as we get closer. No surprise.

Solidly below avg temps, solidly above avg snowfall, and solidly above avg snowcover for Detroit. Been a great winter. But of course, the one thing missing is a huge storm. Im all for a March paste bomb.

Its way out, but I cannot see this as being a torch April.

Yes, everything is relative to climo. I take a 3-4 day trip to northern MI every year in mid-late February (usually the U.P., sometimes northern lower MI) and in Feb 2024 youd have thought it hadnt snowed at all the way the locals talked even though the area I was at was at like 80 inches on the season at that point. 2023-24 is my lowest snowfall since Ive kept track since 1995, at 21.4". After the gross 2023-24, 2024-25 was a good winter for MI in that it was cold and white, although snowfall was on the light side outside of the snowbelts. But 2025-26 has been a fantastic winter statewide with plentiful cold, snowfall, and snowcover. Today is the 50th day with 1"+ snowcover this season at Detroit. The depth is 8". The current 30-yr annual avg is 47 days, and the longterm avg is 49 days, so we have already eclipsed season avg in early Feb.

Today is the 50th day with 1"+ snowcover this season at DTW. The depth is 8". The current 30-yr annual avg is 47 days, and the longterm avg is 49 days, so we have already eclipsed season avg in early Feb.

Yup. I live the historic old buildings. I always cringe when they tear them down. My brother that lived in Chicago for a decade always lived in old apartment buildings. He moved to Denver for 2 years before moving back to MI last year. IMO Denver had no character (too new) compared to Chicago.

Its been such a steady cold winter locally, we forget that in DJF, warm anamolies are not a nail in the coffin here. In fact. If we can avoid actual torching and get an active pattern it can actually produce very well, but its of course a gamble. This would be the first time this cold season wed be in a more gambling type pattern. Its been solid cold and winter threats briefly interrupted by 2 well advertised torches.

I misunderstood, thinking the assertion is volcano is needed for any kind of cold anomoly winter. I feel very fortunate to live in the Great Lakes because our type of climate makes a complete winterless winter impossible. Warmer winters can see some real dynamic snowstorms ala 2022-23. A winter like the present one, 2025-26, is what I would call a classic textbook example of a harsh winter. Below avg temps, above avg snowfall and above avg snowcover. No standout storms but solid deep winter since late November with just 2 brief breaks. Today is the 21st day in a row snow has fallen. I dont ever really ever expect another 2013-14. Took this Pic this evening when dropping something off at the library.