michsnowfreak

With the magnitude of the arctic blast coming, fresh snowpack, stale snowpack, or no snowpack will likely be a moot point.

What's incredible with some of the arctic blasts weve seen lately, 2019, 2015, 2014… is the painful wind chills would look ungodly back in the days of the old wind chill formula.

I always say average wouldn't be average if it was always above average lol. Just not been Michigan's winter so far. I will be going up to the Gaylord area in a few weeks, they have probably between 7-12" otg which is far better than much of the rest of northern MI. I would say Detroit is probably realistically one of the only areas that could pull off an above avg snow season if the 2nd half produces, due to a decent start DTW is only 4.5" below avg to date. Many northern towns are so far below average that even a great run would leave them short in the end.

And that's the northern part. The southwestern part of the upper peninsula that borders Wisconsin has snow depths generally in the 1 to 3" range.

Went for a walk today and I have to say the ice on the Detroit River looked pretty cool. picked up 0.2" of snow today which puts me at 20.0" on the season.

It varies from place to place but some of the low spots of northern Michigan like mackinaw & Petoskey as well as the "banana belt" of the upper peninsula only have around an inch of snow on the ground. the deepest snows are just over a foot in the favored spots

The snowpack in most of northern Wisconsin, northern Michigan and northern Minnesota is terrible right now compared to what it should be.

Make that the past few decades lol. February has been where it's at.

This sentence says it all for me, this was exactly my gripe: "I get more peeved at the persistence pattern posts, that it's sucked so it will continue to do so". I like hoosiers stats because I'm the same way, I am always doing stats for Detroit. Even if you have a terrible start do not assume it continues in an area where it will snow through April. Winter may still be a shit winter but it's very hard to hit all time futility or all time snowiest in a region like ours that relies more on persistence rather than feast or famine. That's what makes things like the Winter of 2013-14 in Detroit or the Winter of 1978-79 in Chicago so extremely rare. None of us has seen the all time famine winters in our lifetime luckily.

One of the only interesting things about January here was the lack of temp movement. Max 45 Min 11 all month at Detroit. In 147 years of record, only 32 years saw a colder max for the month and only 9 years saw a warmer min for the month.

I like a new thread starter, it just seems like there's so many threads lol. We didn't let that short term discussion thread last long. Hopefully your mojo works Snowstorms. It's certainly possible to go a whole season without a 6"+ storm but it's become exceedingly rare. Only 2 of the past 20 winters did not feature at least one 6"+ storm here and only 1 of the past 20 if you include all of SE MI. So I'd imagine something gives between Feb and Apr. Bonus points if it's a big dog. 6 year anniversary today actually. And lol @ steve. When I said winters half over I didn't mean it in a literal sense. but checking, the snow season is statistically 55.5% over.

bad start for sure. no issue with posting about where that ranked. Especially me, I'm the fellow stat king. I mean Chicago was kinda due for a storm anyway. MY issue was the ones questioning all time season futility and acting like it was never going to snow there this season. bonus points for beavis 34 posts on Chicago's horrible climo yet he has more snow on the ground than most places well to his north.

Cleveland has had 29.0" and snow depth is 0. Definitely an interesting hobby

We essentially swapped Dec and Jan for the northern and southeast suburbs. The Dec events were better here.

I'm a near match to you at 19.8"...and I have 1-2" on the ground

It's very frustrating! Im annoyed that weve missed out on what the western part of the sub has had in January, mainly the past week. The ridiculous talk around Christmas about seasonal futility for Chicago, when literally 4 months of snow potential remained, kinda pisses me off because it was stupid talk then & salt in the wound now. Season total here is 19.8" but only 6.0" of it came in January (all nickels and dimes) and while the last week it has looked like Winter it has not been much. December was a far better month. There is certainly lots of potential in February so I won't say anything else now but if this keeps up in February I will be ranting more.

It better!!!! one probably will.

estimate 1.3" here, very drifty. another inch snowfall. So glad this shit January is over. 19.8" on season but only 6.0" in January.

Trust me, if some area is decently below average by mid December I'm sure someone will start discussing futility.

Kind of annoyed that this storm is sinking South of here but can't get them all. Hopefully this is just the beginning of an active period for our region. May Feb be the opposite of the zzzs that ruled most of January. This is why I always lol when people who are off to slow starts in December start talking about seasonal futility when snow chances last until April.

We saw 2 storms in the 7-9" range last Winter, and everyone knows im more about snow cover than the actual storm but I'm getting the shakes from not having a warning storm this Winter and were only halfway through lol. Idk how I would have survived the dearth of 6"+ storms this area saw mid century

This is definitely not spread the wealth from Detroit to Toronto corridor lol. Of course when that usually happens Chicago misses out. Indiana and Ohio are definitely more due for a 6"+ storm than anywhere north of I 80, but a true spread the wealth storm that would envelop all or most of this sub is extremely rare.

Lmao I heard that. Anyone have a twc map of their Feb forecast?

I had gotten used to your avatar lol

Welcome,I see you are new here. Are you closer to Detroit or Windsor?