michsnowfreak

Thundersnow reported near Toledo I'm hearing.

There's many different ways to rate a storm. In terms of rates, the best rates we've actually seen here in recent years we're on February 4th, 2021 when we saw that in the same band come through and give us nearly 3" in one hour, but the event itself only lasted 3 hours and dropped 4.2". Then of course, a few weeks after that we had an 11" snow storm on the 15th and 16th but it came over the course of 2 days and was a bit drawn out. Last Winter, the much maligned February 2nd and 3rd event came in 2 waves, a very underperforming 6" with wave 1 and 3" with wave 2. Then a few weeks after that we had another storm drop nearly 7". So we've had several different good events but each of them has their own thing to pick apart. With this event, I'd have to say the ratios would be what I pick at but it will be remembered for the consistency of the models and several hours of HEAVY snowfall!

It's beautiful out. Obviously I would have liked better ratios but that was completely expected with this storm. Next several hours should be fun

Already have 1.5" new and the puking snow is hours away. Gonna be a good day.

Oh wow nice. I was just going by whatever the official numbers were. My memory is foggy where the best stuff was, I just remember it was a good storm here, but epic somewhere to my south. Losing 2 feet in a week, that's east coast style lol.

I saw that lol

Ah ok. Basically, our "noteworthy" events this season have been Nov 12, Nov 19, Dec 23, Dec 25, Jan 22, plus the usual traces and random dustings. Since none of them were great, I couldnt remember what was what, I just knew the south burbs were "favored". Regarding the pre-Christmas 2004 storm, I think it was Indiana and southwest Kentucky that were slammed? Cincinnati had 9.4", Detroit had 8.9", & Louisville had 7.8".

I know you've had less than DTW but there's no way you've had that little. Officially thru today DTW is 11.1" and CVG 13.3". Fwiw in 2004-05 DTW had 63.8" and CVG 24.3". I looked for the heck of it. Since 1892, Cincinnati beat Detroit 12 times, most recently in 1997-98.

We are trying to reclaim the magnet.

DTX goes warning for Detroit south, 6-8"

Pretty pic but I actually was mad to see the sun today. I don't care that it's been cloudy 95% of the time this Winter or that more snow is on the way, I just can't stand to see sun melting snow lol.

December and January have been about 92% overcast in Detroit, an extremely impressive number, yet the sun decides to come out randomly on a mild day to try and melt snow ahead of the next snow.

00, 06, 12, 18z go to 48 hrs

Feb 1965 was definitely a good storm in a fairly boring decade, but I don't get the whole love affair with it from so many people. It dropped 11 to 12" and was fairly long duration. You hear about that more than here about 1974 with almost 20". The 17" storm in 2015 was from a bowling ball type storm though. Maybe that's why those are my favorites.

If it stays on track Monroe & Wayne County could easily see more than 5". We got 3.7" yesterday with a few good bands from a much, much weaker system.

Went to my mom's this evening and noticed that a snowman across the street was bowing down to me.

Total wild card at this point. One thing to keep in mind If we get a good burst and good dendrites it may not matter. Yesterdays snowfall, with temps of 30F-33F the entire time but very good dendrites/rates early on, produced 3.7" snow here on 0.23" liquid. On December 23, we had 2.4" of snow on 0.30" liquid with shredded flakes and temps near 0F.

Of course. It shifts back-and-forth. In the 1990s your area always had more.

Looking out my window at a Winter wonderland and seeing heavy snow in the forecast grids for Wednesday. Winter is back!

To be fair even the models had the heaviest snow in the South burbs. But I think we all exceeded expectations with this one.

The snow kept falling and as night approached it started to stick some more so actually ended up with a total fall of 3.6" here bringing season total to 11.7". DTW had 3.3" bringing season total to 11.0". The flurries tonight are adding a sparkle to the dense snow blanket. The scenery was top notch everywhere you looked today.

It didn't melt on contact, it melted a bit as temperatures climbed to 33 and the rates slowed down. What was interesting was that grassy areas the snow really collected well, but on the cement it was much wetter and the shovel and plowpiles look like a super wet snow. Wonderful appetizer, now bring on the main course. Oh and 85 and muggy sounds gross lol.

A little bit of melting here now but the grass tips are still fully covered. We did get the most as expected but it seems like the whole area did better than expected.

Very pleasantly surprised today. I honestly was expecting about 1" of slop instead got an absolutely postcard worthy 3.3" of snow. Sounds like around 2" fell to the North of Detroit but the East and South side had the most due to early banding.

Less than 2 hours in we already have more than I expected today. Hopefully it's a good sign moving forward!