michsnowfreak

Milwaukee is -1.4° on December. Definitely an endless torch

A week of a scenic Winter Wonderland, centered right on Christmas, is being torched away by a warm start to January. It's comical in the fact that this is the textbook scenario that so many of the general public wish for. Hope it doesn't last long. I absolutely will be laughing at every flake that falls in March and April.

The weather is always changing. The weather being warm for one or two weeks has nothing to do with the rest of the season, which is months.

They are both fast growing tree species (norway spruce and white pine) however the fact that they were planted as bare root saplings in 2018 and they are this big through the 2022 growing season it's crazy.

I can't even imagine what it was like in Buffalo. Everyone here was so focused on the total amount of snow, but the conditions themselves were brutal. When I was outside the evening of December 23rd trying to blow snow drifts out of my driveway it literally was hard to breathe when I came inside. In Buffalo you had those conditions AND feet of snow. Whether it was people who were trapped in their cars and froze to death or medical emergenciesthat first responders couldnt get too, had to be a terrifying way to die.

Had a little bit of filtered sun today for the 1st time and I don't know when. DTW sky cover for December is a very impressive 9.3 out of 10.

The 1st week of January is going to be a torch there is no doubt about it. But that has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the season

There's been no sun here in a while. Christmas was overcast with snow falling most of the day. I don't mind the overcast

Definitely muted due to a number of reasons. Mainly lake influence and a constant low overcast/snow, but also timing of the front. The high end December 23rd was 34 at midnight. Temperatures hovered between 0 and 1ﾟ for most of the day into the overnight of the 24th.

I think it goes without saying that this was more severe than your November storm despite November being the epic total. Kudos for getting a measurement and not giving up lol. I had a hard enough time here with 8 to 10" snow drifts in my yard with other spots 1". It would be very easy to inflate or low ball snow in those winds but I know you take care in your measurements.

Season to date snowfall imby 8.0" (Nov 2.9, Dec 5.1) and DTW 7.5" (Nov 2.5, Dec 5.0). I'm thinking they finish right around to very slightly warmer than average for Dec. No surprise, it's been an extremely overcast December. Through the 25th average sky cover is 9.2 out of 10.

The high of 16 at Detroit made for the 5th coldest Christmas high temp yesterday. A winter wonderland for a week before the torch hits. Judah Cohen likes a return to cold after the first week of Jan.

Oh. I'm sorry I misread that. I thought you meant DTW was 79% of average. I have a friend in Livonia who can attest to getting less than DTW/downriver last winter. And again so far this year with the Nov and Dec events so far. I'm sure it's a blip though. You should not avg less than the small spot in Macomb Co or algonac which averages a bit less.

I went 2.4 on Dec 23 0.3 on Dec 24 2.0 on Dec 25

I was hoping that band would sink to the 94 corridor but was shocked to wake up to 2 fresh inches here. It was an even blanket covering the other drifty snow, it really was a Courier and Ives White Christmas. 3rd time in 6 years we wake up to fresh white Christmas morning.

Exactly. This was my mom's house yesterday

Merry Christmas everyone! It ended up snowing all night unexpectedly thanks to lake Michigan. Picked up 2.1" of fluff overnight into this morning. My mom said when she got out of midnight mass it was a Christmas postcard. The high ratio fluff covered up the low ratio sugar and drifts to make for a beautiful white Christmas.

What a nice Christmas surprise. After 2 days of nonstop blowing snow, the winds calmed down and we picked up 1.5" of snow overnight via Lake MI. The fluffy topping on the drifty snow makes for an absolutely beautiful white Christmas

DTW finished at 47.1" last winter. Not sure what you mean 79%. That is an interesting thought though, it condensed Winter. Winter lasts so long overall but it's not continuous. Would be interesting if we crammed everything into a couple months.

I think mimillman was being sarcastic lol. Last 3 winters have been around average at Detroit snowfall wise, and the last 2 near average snowcover. Just very Feb based (ie much snowier/whiter in Feb than avg to counter the dull parts of winter). I, like you am a snowcover person. There is no longterm decline in snowcover at all, but of course we are still fairly fresh off the record snowcover 2013-15.

@Mimillman, here's the graphic. Wonder when they will release 1991-2020.

January has been more the wild card. Certainly snowier tham Dec, but we are due for a snowy Jan. The theme hast been AN snow in November, February, & April and BN in December and March. But as hoosier said, we can't always count on Feb to be rockin. One of these years it won't be (likewise one of these years we will get a snowy December again).

The location is perfect, the price was beyond reasonable, and I have a view of lake superior from my backyard.

I'm staying in a vrbo near L'anse Feb 16-20. Can't wait! An additional mood dusting today but the LES is just dust here. At least it's a White Christmas!

It's a cold white Christmas in the Midwest, but whatever the weather, may all my fellow weenies and their families/friends have a very Merry Christmas!