michsnowfreak

It's part of the experience lol. Opening day usually seems to fall on a cold sometimes snowy day.

Snow flurries and snow showers all day today. Picked up 0.1" here and DTW however some of the northeast suburbs got as much as 1 to 3" in a heavy band last night. Very interesting scenes during opening day, must have felt brutally cold inside a ballpark with wind chills in teens.

When you posted that I would say not at all but just now I noticed the grass greening up some.

Feb was rocking but Mar has been as zzz as I can ever remember.

I know, very strange

I know, But still the numbers just look insane. I have said for years that Ann arbor radiates unrealistically. Just as Ypsilanti is the aberration for high temps.

What the hell...add one more day. Diurnal swings last 3 days Detroit: Mar 20 high/low 54/22 Mar 21 high/low 63/27 Mar 22 high/low 71/34 Ann Arbor Mar 20 high/low 56/15 Mar 21 high/low 65/19 Mar 22 high/low 70/25

Diurnal swings last 2 days Detroit: Mar 20 high/low 54/22 Mar 21 high/low 63/27 Better radiating spot...Ann Arbor Mar 20 high/low 56/15 Mar 21 high/low 65/19

The clear skies and dry atmosphere are really causing impressive diurnal swings in temps quite unusual for this region without aid of a strong front. forecast today 65. Even at the heat island..... Detroit: Mar 20 high/low 54/22 Mar 21 high/low ??/27 Better radiating spot...Ann Arbor Mar 20 high/low 56/15 Mar 21 high/low ??/19

the 1990s-early 2000s had lots of severe weather but snowfall was meh. The last 2 decades snowfall has really ramped up and severe weather is much more scarce. Which I'm ok with.

Exactly. It depends what is meant by green. The grass will green in April however green trees will probably be early may

So I guess Para gfs is still not the main gfs as it was supposed to be Mar 17th?

One month ago it looked like this, and now everyone's worried about drought. Crazy how quickly things change.

Picked up a few hundreds of an inch of rain this morning, the 1st measurable precip since February 28th. This is the 1st measurable rain falling on completely bare ground since mid December, that is how little liquid precip weve had this Winter.

Huge change from snowing nearly daily in February. February's deep snowpack did peak at 1.6" water content but once that slowly released itself into the ground we have had no measurable precipitation

Just a trace of precip and snow has fallen so far this month at Detroit, which makes it the driest March 1 through 15 on record. This is directly on the heels of February tying the record with 16 days of measurable snow.

Just a trace of snow, sleet, and freezing drizzle here.

wish we would see something here. don't know what I expect. 2021 in a nutshell Jan: nonstop gray Feb: nonstop snow Mar: nonstop sun

Stat padding season has arrived. Bring em on.

Actually...the deep snowpacks of 2014 AND 2015 saw slow, rain less melts too. only the deep pack of 2018 was melted accompanied by rain.

We hardly had any plain rain the entire winter, just very small amounts here and there. February's deep snowpack did hit about 1.5" water content (entirely from snow) that was slowly released as it melted without aid of any precip.

Detroit is at 41.3" on the season. The current average is 42.7", however the new 1991-2020 normals start in May. By my calculation the new average will climb to 44.6" unless they use some quality control (which we know they love to do ). The 20th century average was 39.1" (thanks to a sucky mid century) and the period of record avg (1880-2020) is 40.9". Anyway you slice it this will look like a pretty avg snow season (which of course was anything but from the grass tips of Jan to the 2-3 foot drifts or Feb) so I'd rather a nice storm to just safely bump us on the plus side.

After starting the day in the low 30s temps skyrocketed and Detroit tied the record high of 70. Had lunch at the park with a friend and it was interesting to feel how frigid the air coming right off the water felt then as soon as you walked a bit away it got so much warmer. I have a wide driveway and the one side of it gets no sunlight so I usually have a lot of snow piled. There's been at least some bit of snow there since November 30th but it should go tonight.

I have a few shaded piles but its mostly just in parking lots now.

There have been a few clunkers here as well, but they are definitely the exception. Least snowy Febs 3.) 0.9" - 2004 8.) 2.2" - 2017 Even these clunkers… 2004 had a solid snowpack until the last week of the month in 2017 had a solid snowpack the 1st week of the month before the torch took over. Feb snowfall since 2000 2000 8.1 0 2001 2.9 0 2002 6.7 0 2003 19.2 0 2004 0.9 0 2005 12.5 0 2006 3.8 0 2007 14.1 0 2008 24.2 0 2009 8.5 0 2010 27.0 0 2011 31.7 0 2012 10.2 0 2013 23.5 0 2014 23.4 0 2015 26.4 0 2016 10.7 0 2017 2.2 0 2018 21.0 0 2019 7.3 0 2020 14.7 0 2021 21.8