michsnowfreak

Jealous Harry. Good luck!

I understand concerns about drought. And honestly it's been a long time since we've had a dry year like this, so I guess you could say we were "due" . I always stand by the fact that Winter is a different season. Storm tracks and what not are different. While there's certainly no rhyme or reason, an interesting stat is that 6 of the 7 driest autumns on record were followed by wetter than average winters. But then, of the remaining 13 driest autumns that rounded out the top 20, only 1 additional was a wetter than normal Winter. Fwiw, this autumn will absolutely be on the top 7 driest.

They never updated the map with final totals. But yes. THAT storm was downrivers best in our stretch of great winters. Wyandotte 16.5 DTW 16.7 Brownstown 17.0

What's the discord?

I legit thought about it but I just have too much going on the rest of this week. Also, with the bands always being narrow, how difficult is it to pinpoint where to go? lol Just for future reference.

It was actually tied for 4th latest on record Nov 15, 1946 Nov 15, 1915 Nov 14, 1918 Nov 13, 1916 Nov 13, 2022 The irony of this was: -The low on October 8th rounded to 33, was less than a 1/2 degree from what would have been an earlier than normal first freeze. Avg first freeze Oct 17. -the first snowflakes were earlier than normal on Oct 20 (avg Oct 30) -the first measurable snow was earlier than normal on Nov 13 (avg Nov 17)

So jealous!

I'm sure you did. I'm usually beating my sister in St Clair Shores.

I wonder what Canton got Feb 1, 2015?

Looks like a mild 1st half of December and a cold 2nd half

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".