michsnowfreak

I imagine down there in open areas ot is bad. It's snowing and blowing all over the place here. Some roads are still treacherous even where plowed.

I did my driveway and my mom's. It was OK but had to run the snow blower over multiple times because of the icy layer. Plow piles are quite impressive due to the water content. Today is a beautiful Winter day with snow falling and blowing. Should tack on a few inches of powder.

Monroe had 5 to 6" and they could easily get another 3" today. Not out of the question for them to hit 10" in total lol. And pixie dust my ass, after that cement we dealt with this deserves to come in as pure fluff lol.

Sheets of ice where the snow has been cleared. Definitely treacherous going. 6" of snow fell but would have been 10" if the vaunted kuchera ratios panned out. Looking like today's wave will give us some snow as well, fingers crossed.

Not sure but if that's the case you definitely were in some sort of screw hole. Depth here is 5-6 and as said you don't even touch ground when walking on it lol. Most reports coming in are around 6" give or take a few tenths. I'm being lazy so I haven't thawed out my rain gauge yet but I'm definitely interested to see what the total liquid equivalent was. It will be easy to figure out because there was 0.10" of rain ahead of the switch to snow so I will be able to just subtract the 0.10 from the total. 1st order of business tho is to get this stuff cleared. This should be a very interesting task lol. 6z models inched North with some snow today. DTW 6.2, ARB 6.2", FNT 11.0", MBS 4.5"

We were a tad less than that at 1230. It was like an April snow, complete with a few hours of SN+ obs at DTW that just couldn't stack up, but then it definitely started adding up into a solid concrete slab as the afternoon wore on then took on a legit snowstorm feel by evening as temps fell and snow was blowing and drifting.

Picked up over 2" of powder after 7pm. It will be interesting to see what the total liquid equivalent of the snow was when I thaw out my rain gauge

You only got 4"? There was a time late this afternoon when you were supposedly between banding, but without an accurate radar who knows. 6" More or less here to Monroe

Frustrations with THIS storm aside, we've certainly been doing better than Saginaw with snow storms on the whole the past many years. Flint or Fenton definitely would be a better option storm wise haha.

Got 6.0" here, the top drifted and fluffed up nicely to give it that "marshmallow" look but the bottom is unreal. You don't even hit ground when walking on it (and I'm a big guy). Definitely a solid snow base. Will be interesting to see how hard it gets as temp continues to drop. Low 20s now.

The total snow from this system is definitely a disappointment, but the real lesson is don't get so caught up in kuchera snowmaps without looking at other factors (in this case warm nose). Obviously the QPF was overdone in this case, but I have noticed that many of the times that we either over or under perform it is tied to ratios. I probably had more liquid in this snowfall than I had in last February's 11" powder snowfall.

I hear lots of people's are clogging. That damn warm nose screwed us with ungodly low ratios. The heavy wet snow fell all day at quarter to half mile visibility and we struggled, now this evening it's stacking much faster. Glad we are fluffing up some tonight.

At least we're making a nice evening run of a snowy blowing night. The concrete blanket of snow that fell earlier is no joke. I hope my snowblower doesn't clog because it's a heart attack waiting to happen. I can honestly say I've never walked in more dense snow. An hour ago near 5", maybe closing in on 6" now. The first 3.5" or so were less than 5-1 ratio.

Moderate to heavy snow all afternoon at DTW yet we have about 2.5" of the lowest ratio cement I can recall. Prob 5-1 ratio. Wind picking up, temp dropping, finally should turn powdery. Roads a disaster of glued slush starting to freeze. Watch that warm nose toronto folks. It sucks.

Let's go

Not sure on that...latest hrrr now has it snowing at dtw straight thru til 5pm tmrw. Hopefully We can really start to fluff up after these terribly low ratios. Really coming down now.

When was the last time a storm "wrapped around" the 3 county metro area? It's clearly not going to be an epic storm but as nwohio has been posting...it seems many don't even follow timelines. I'm pissed that the old snow caused pudding on the frozen ground and also that we won't be getting epic accumulation, but it still should be a solid storm by tmrw. And looks like it'll be very scenic.

The snow is nowhere near over. It was a frustrating start but the goods are yet to come.

Most of the old snow, save for patches and piles melted last night ahead of this but with the frozen ground it pooled as standing water on top of the ground. Snowing nicely but low ratio is so far..need the temp to drop.

I'm pretty sure that's courtesy of no dtx radar

Dtx radar is down for maintenance so that's playing a part in why there's the gap in radar at times

Just see my previous post.. I was thinking the same thing. It's funny how frozen the ground remains despite the warm day.

It felt so warm it was crazy. Funny how your body does that. Now tonight with the moisture increasing it feels damp. Just a funny feel after it's been so dry cold for so long. Snow cover now ranges from grass to 2" and where there are grass patches the ground remains rock hard. Guess it's all part of the ingredients that make this storm come together.

We probably won't have much left ahead of the storm if it stays mild like this all night, but it really is a moot point.

Lol I never want it gone haha. Helps down the road for glacier. We have about 2" in shade and 1" in sun. Some bare and some 3" spots.