michsnowfreak

Happy early birthday! I wish I had a Winter birthday lol. Mine is May 8. Spring, my least favorite season of course lol. Although it did snow last year on my birthday for the 1st time I can remember.

Lucky for you that map is not happening lol

While I criticised the Chicago futility talk because it was so premature in my opinion, I have to admit I was really unsure what the season total would bring to Grand Rapids because of their insane deficit built up into mid January. Glad you guys are finally on a nice run. I personally did not hear thunder (it was reported by others) however I was in it and I can tell you it's some of the craziest conditions I've ever driven in, and I obviously have been in many much bigger snowstorms.

When is your birthday?

we have a solid base. the 4.2" of system snow the other night had 0.40" water so it's basically not budging. bring on some of those fluffed up snows we can get from low qpf lol

That's nothing compared to the actual westherbell one lol

you can fly home if you want tundra lol. The snowpack is frozen dense so everything on top will build it up. Definitely looks like deep winter. Next potential good one is next Friday. Only 2 of the past 20 winters have not seen a 6 plus inch storm and there were 36 such storms in that time frame. I think we will get one however I also have a funny feeling it will come in March. Obviously we remember the February 2015 bitter cold as having very deep snow, but some of the other infamous February cold snaps of years past have had very little snow cover and then we get a big March storm. In fact 2 of the more infamous cold snaps were Feb 1899 & 1934. During each of those cold snaps we only had around an inch of snow on the ground, then March brought a big snowstorm (12+ in 1899, 10 in 1934). It could be worse... Bismarck will be spending most of the next 2 weeks with wind chills between 30 and 50 below 0, dew points in the -20 's and no snow on the ground.

The other night we had some of the heaviest rates anyone in this sub has had this Winter (outside of a lake band I'm sure). 3" fell in 1.5 hour and it was dense snow too. Total accumulation for the 4 hour event was just over 4" so obviously not a big storm, but coming from someone who has criticised many big storms over the years for taking too many hours, you should have appreciated the weather porn aspect of it.

Thank you! I heard the elk are amazing. I will be exploring other things too, just wanted opinion of that park.

It's nice to see the entire state a frozen winter wonderland now. Will be in Gaylord Feb 24-26. Have you been to Aspen Park? I want to check that out.

Before you know it were going to be worse than the Eastern subs when it comes to making storm threads lol. I do like the potential tho

While I was counting down minutes to the blinding snow band with this storm, the general public just hear "Winter weather advisory", the same thing they issue when you grind out to 2-4" over 12 hours they issue when you go from dry to near 0 visib in minutes and 2"+/hr rates. I know people who were caught driving in it the other night that said they could not see anything in front of them. I know NWS recently started doing snow squall warnings but it still seems the advisory/warning system is quite flawed with the variety of weather we can see.

Nice winter sunset tonight. The cold has just begun.

How would you like to be in Bismarck North Dakota the next few weeks? No snow on the ground and 50 below windchills

Beavis is going to ban you for hikacking his thread. Beavis im sure you are loving this deep Winter, plenty of potential ahead

Flakes flying but I don't think we had any more accumulation. The dense wet snow froze as temperatures plummeted (peaked at 35F post snow at 1am). It's so much more fun using the snowblower instead of shoveling lol

Here's video I took last night.

Quite a mini storm tonight. Finished with 4.2" of packing snow in about 4 hours however as I mentioned the 1st 3" fell in the 1st hour and a half. At 24.2" on the season. Technically the biggest storm of the season is still the 4.3" on Nov 30/Dec 1st but it goes without saying that tonights storm was much more exciting. DTW was at 1/8 mile visib for near an hour, you often don't see that in many 8 to 12" storms. They received 4.1" which is their largest on the season so far (they had 3.9 Nov 30/Dec 1) and are at 23.7" season. I did not see thundersnow but there were lightning strikes detected over the river. Snow is actually compacting a bit now it is very dense and there's a little bit of dripping but the flash freeze is a few hours away. Deep winter returns to Michigan . Going to use the snowblower in the morning, it will be interesting to see what a heavy packing snow on cement turns into when the temperature plummets into the low teens.

Just awesome out here tonight. Heaviest snow rates I've seen in a while. Thundersnow in spots.

I did not see thundersnow but I was out driving it and you could not see anything. Picked up 3" in the 1st 1.5 hours as a 15 minutes ago

can't see anything driving. it's awesome. easily 2+/hr in that band

omg talk to text acting up

Snow literally came in like a wall of heavy snow just as models advertised. Snow literally came in like a wall of heavy snow just as models advertised. Sticking immediately to pavement and it's not even wet snow, looks more powdery.

Thanks! I was thinking northern lower since it's closer.