michsnowfreak

Oooh good choices. Esp 1/2/99 and 2/1/15

It was basically 94 south. It was 5-1 ratio. A few degrees and I'd have had 2" instead of 1".

There's so many to choose from my honestly I have to go with: January 6, 2014. It's so hard to pick a favorite but I would say this is a very memorable one. It's easy to remember big snowstorms or favorite snowstorms, but the way this day transpired was so memorable. Started with the big 11" snowstorm winding down and a 17" of drifty snowpack on the ground. Temperatures started near 30 as the storm ended and the snow had a heavy water content to it. Then I saw one of the craziest post storm temperature drops ever and the roads literally were frozen over in greased snow. There was no way road crews could remove it so it was like driving on ice rinks surrounded by massive snow banks. The temperature got down to -14 by the sunset, and it was an arctic sunset which had sereal colors in the sky. Winds were howling and snow drifting, wind chills were -55 and I remember the biting cold was something I'd never felt. The inside of people's windows were icing. It's crazy to think now that at that time it was really only just the beginning of the historic Winter.

Snowy day today was a bit unexpected. Banded snow made its way to Southeast Michigan. Accumulations were from DTW south and east. Picked up 1.0" here on 0.21" liquid (first measurable precip of Nov). DTW 0.5". The jackpot was just South of me with around 2". North of Detroit there were no accumulations.

There was a snowstorm Dec 11th. The ground was covered basically from then to early March with 2 brief periods of avdew says bare (late Dec and mid-late feb).

I don't remember what happened on the East Coast I just know we had 70" of snow

I have been hearing the 2010-11 analog thrown around a lot. Which is not a bad thing.

Obviously this was in jest but quite a few great winters had big warm spells in November.

1974, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2017

I love white pines and red pines. I want a red pine but I have no room lol. Had a baby one that died. In my office I love looking out at my neighbors big white pines. I do my part lol. I have: 2 balsam firs 1 white pine 1 Norway spruce 1 Douglas fir 1 blue spruce 1 autumn blaze maple 1 birch 2 crimson maples

November is a tough one because on the one hand, I'm super ready for snow, but on the other hand we've had this trend the past decade or so that snowy november's yield mild December's and vice versa. So based on that I'm OK waiting a little longer

Interesting. I'm a conifer person myself. Palms don't do much for me.

How do you even grow a Palm tree in our northern climate? Meaning what happens to it from November through April? I'll pass

Last November was colder than normal but November 2020 was warmer than normal. Just because it's a triple dip nina doesnt mean it's gonna follow up specific pattern. Regarding 1975-76, December '75 was colder than average here with a lot of snow. November was very warm.

Did I read that right, that January 2014 was your least snowy January??? It was the snowiest January on record at Detroit with 39.1".

The 1st 10 days warmth in November is probably a big reason for the higher probabilities of a mild November to begin with, but yes, if you look at trends in recent years we've had plenty of cold November that have led to mild Decembers. So let's switch it up.

Halloween said "screw you" to one of the driest Octobers on record. I picked up 0.60" of rain which brought my monthly total to 1.04". And a trace of snow. DTW Finished with 1.06" which is just enough to make 20th driest October. Temp finished almost exactly avg.

Sometimes stuff like that just blends in with UHI and things like that. For instance, Detroit has not had a freeze yet with their low temperature being 33ﾟ(just missing it on the 8th), but Flint has had 7 freezes. On the other hand, Detroit has had 14 days in October with the low temperature in the 30s, but the average is 10.

I work remotely but I'm staying right here lol. When do you return?

The 1st 19 days of December was extremely mild and snowless at Detroit, then a switch flipped as you said, and the cold the last third of the month wiped it out. Christmas to New Year's was very cold. Monthly departure at DTW using today's normals -0.5°

Agree 100%. A cold dry Winter with constant snow cover, even with a lack of big storms amd below avg snowfall, would be remembered as a harsh Winter. Then the following Winter you could probably have twice as much snowfall but tons of thaws and people may even comment it was not as harsh as the year before.

I just checked our weather. It was certainly not balmy temperature wise but it was a piss poor start to the snow season until until early January. Just bits of snow beforehand, although there was a bit on Christmas. Despite the terrible start Detroit also logged 0.4" of snow in that Oct 30/31 snowfall. Winter kicked into high gear after Christmas.

Welcome back to the Great Lakes. But screw your rooting lol

Regarding the peak Fall color discussion, I think it goes without saying that each year both peak Fall color and Spring green up vary. As said, it was a beautiful but early peak this year, as we are already past peak and have been for a few days. Still some beautiful color of course but lots of bare. I think I am around hoosiers age, and I do remember some halloween's where most of the trees were bare but I also remember doing lots of trick or treating in fallen leaves. A trend the past several years has been late leaf drop and late spring green up green up, so it will be interesting to see if this early leaf drop affects the timing of blooming next spring.

It's not a bad idea to start November on the mild side, better favor for a flip towards colder the 2nd half.