michsnowfreak

@Mimillman, here's the graphic. Wonder when they will release 1991-2020.

January has been more the wild card. Certainly snowier tham Dec, but we are due for a snowy Jan. The theme hast been AN snow in November, February, & April and BN in December and March. But as hoosier said, we can't always count on Feb to be rockin. One of these years it won't be (likewise one of these years we will get a snowy December again).

The location is perfect, the price was beyond reasonable, and I have a view of lake superior from my backyard.

I'm staying in a vrbo near L'anse Feb 16-20. Can't wait! An additional mood dusting today but the LES is just dust here. At least it's a White Christmas!

It's a cold white Christmas in the Midwest, but whatever the weather, may all my fellow weenies and their families/friends have a very Merry Christmas!

Hmm where did I hear "anyone can paint brush their own snow map". That map doesnt include most of yesterday's snow actually. Not sure why you follow maps anyway. You are proven wrong time and time again with them and then when you are, you simply resort to a generic "we suck". Over the years youve managed to find something wrong with every snow record, snowstorm, etc that occurs, and usually your gripe is with the conditions. Well yesterday the conditions were legit. When it's pointed out how Detroit has had more 6"+ storms last 20 years and a higher average than most non belt Midwest cities, you have to go back to the big dog obsession which no one outside buffalo has had.

I agree. The constant drifting is just insane. While it's impossible to be precise due to the flash freeze and temperature drop, I'm thinking the ratios were less than 10 to 1 on the snow here. I got a total of 0.57" liquid snowfall of 2.4", but the rainfall portion was approximately 0.25-.30". Were going on 30 hours now where "blowing snow" has been a part of nearly every observation. Official totals were 2.2" at Detroit and 4.5" at Flint.

Per friend in Livonia it seems like you guys got a little less snow than here. But conditions were just brutal all day. Havent seen constant blowing/drifting like this in years. It definitely made for a "North Dakota" like day as was joked about earlier. Going with storm total of 0.57" precip on 2.4" snow here. Some very impressive drifts while driving around, Some of the roads that have been plowed have big snow banks that would make it look like a big snowstorm, but then you see the fields that are scoured of snow. Winds gusted between 45 and 50 miles per hour all day, temperature hovered right around 0 and wind chills hovered around 30 below. Again, give me a run of the mill 6 to 10" snowstorm any day over this, but it was definitely a fun and unique weather day. Snow blowed some of the drifting out of my driveway and ended up with icy facial hair.

Very interesting. Most of the roads here are snow covered/drifted/rutted and slippery

Bingo. My sister went out to pick up a piece of her mailbox that flew off in the wind lol, and discovered she had quite the artistic decoration in front of her house. Like I said. It is really cool to see the wind and the constant blowing snow, but next time just giving me an even deep blanket.

Grass would be poking through no matter how much snow you've got. It's legit outside. It's cool to see but I'm definitely more of an even blanket of snow type of person then these blizzardous winds. My backyard has grass tips in spots and 3 to 6" in other spots

I was out and it's brutal out, but i love it. Snow rutted streets and drifts everywhere despite around 2" of snow having fallen. Can only imagine the drifts if we had a few more inches of snow. The constant blowing snow and wind chills of -30 definitely give it a true tundra feel.

Nice you got some concrete. That will freeze up instead of being carried away in the wind. We went straight from rain to powder here.

Temp just keeps dropping. Snow swirling and drifting. Obviously model porn amounts in the days leading up were pathetically off, but the actual weather is pretty neat. If I can sit next to my Christmas tree on Dec 23 and watch mini snownadoes swirling out the window in a winter wonderland, it's not a bad thing.

It's already below 0 on Monroe County. The wind chills are already 20 below. Pretty much happened as I expected it would yesterday. We'll probably end up around 2" from the "storm" here and then you once again will probably get more lake effect tomorrow than you got from the actual storm.

Brutal outside. It was raining and 38 at 11 PM and now it's 5° and falling and the wind takes your breath away. Probably 1.5-2" of snow but it's a sea of drifting blowing and swirling.

Interesting. Winters of the 2000s/10s were far snowier that the 1990s in SE MI.

Yup. It was incredible. Even once the snow did melt in April the remnant piles were like something you would see up North by that time of year. And actually, although the main show started New Year's, don't forget snow was actually on the ground since December 8th. We had a horribly timed melt off down to patchy trace snow depth December 23rd through 25th and again the 28th through 30th, but we actually never were completely bare ground since December 7th.

It does look interesting. But I thought we would keep everything in the other thread. Doesn't matter to me though.

Nothing could go wrong that Winter lol (not thst there werent, amazingly, the usual complainers). We had a long duration 11" snowstorm December 31st to January 2nd, then a short duration 11" snowstorm January 5/6th. And it was only the beginning.

With the wind I would expect low ratios

Looking like some good banding of snow squalls into Saturday via Lake MI after the main event, but position of banding TBD. Either way looks like a fun but couple days. I probably won't get a liquid equivalent total til Saturday. Rain gauge can will likely freeze solid with flash freeze of rain to snow.

It's the hot hand for sure.

I'd love to see ANYTHING other than heresay that backs that up lol. Ie stats. Last time. We all get hits and we all get misses

Lmao. Actually we ARE talking about the start to this winter. That's exactly what was said to the new york city person who moved to Port huron. "Sorry for the slow start". Then suddenly we segway OT. There's a LOT more to weather than a big dog. And back to the original comment. Columbus hasn't had a 6"+ storm since 2015. Detroit has had about a dozen. We are about to get our 3rd Christmas snowstorm since 2017. Poor us.