michsnowfreak

lmao I was going to say the same thing, I'll allow you to do it but please for the love of the models, at least wait until it's 5 days out.

If I were you I would stay home all week lol. Clearly people there do not know how to handle winter. That said it'll be an incredible week. Dallas has not even seen a 1" snowfall in 6 years and they will have a few day stretch of legit northern winter conditions.

This is horrifying. I do not understand why people that live in an area that rarely sees any Winter weather think its ok to drive posted speeds.

Picked up an enexpected 0.6" of sugar snow last evening. Gives a fresh sparkle to the snowpack and keeps the piles clean and white.

Been pouring pixie dust for several hours, over a half inch and counting. Considering nothing was forecast I always take another layer of glitter to the snowpack

dust here as well. wasn't really expecting anything.

The Detroit river always mesmerises me during the Winter because it can look different every day depending on the ice floes & ice cutters.

A true snow weenie could get 500% climo snow one winter then be bitching up a storm by early December if it's a slow start the following season.

liking the extended. cold doesn't look to be retreating anytime soon. deep winter to continue.

its not often Dallas gets any snow let alone powdery snow. The likely over done gfs is ungodly for Dallas. temps 52 degrees below avg.

I will take the gfs please

The 2/4 underperformer in Illinois was over performer in Southeast Michigan with 3-5" and 2"+/hr rates, the 2/8 perfomred as expected here 1-3", then down in Cincinnati there was 9" In a heavy band the next night. These waves are all over the place so good luck in getting a model QPF field to verify but the bottom line is it's been active in it's going to continue to stay active

Definitely looks interesting for now.

I'm a nws coop observer since 2004 so i do the EXACT same thing!!!! I make notes due to the obs time.

Interesting. I notice the same for December. Shows 11.0" but we had 9.6"...it added November 30th 1.4. I wonder if they can fix it? Whenever you have snow on the last day of the month it will make the next month wrong lol. Interestingly, it still counts the snow properly for the last day of the month (ie Nov 3.5, Dec 11.0...should be Nov 3.5 Dec 9.6. And then Jan 6.4, Feb 7.5...should be Jan 6.4, Feb 6.2). So anytime measurable snow falls on the last day of the month, it counts it twice. Although that's only an f6 issue, climate reports remain correct.

Add DTW to the list. Show 7.5" but the monthly totals 6.2". Maybe it's some sort of nws glitch?

In both 2014 and 2015 we had record snowpack in southeast Michigan (especially 2014) and were lucky to have a slow steady melt in the Spring with almost no rain. If melt out is gradual and without heavy rain or torch it should be OK

Picked up 1.6" of fluffy snow here. 26.2" on the season. Snow depth 5-6". The diamond like sparkle of the snow was incredible in his very hard to capture in a pic. DTW also saw 1.6" and at 25.7" on the season.

Absolutely gorgeous outside with everything glistening like a million diamonds with this fresh fluffy snow.

I am not sure if it has much effect but there is very little snow cover in North Dakota with many spots bare. I wonder if more snow would have made it even colder

That's not necessarily true. Anything is possible. We will see several bouts of snow this week to add to our snowpack. Nothing significant at this time however the models are in pure chaos mode struggling with multiple waves. Just embrace deep Winter in the Great Lakes for now.

It is noticeable how the models are just all over the place. Best way to look at it is very cold with occasional snow chances this week.

Should add some more sparkle to the snowpack here tomorrow night. The question is, will this be a sugar snow or a fluffy snow?

This morning actually hurt the eyes to look at the snow in spots, the old "snowblind effect". Gorgeous deep winter though.

Yesterday I bundled up and took a walk in the park and downtown Wyandotte. we all love being out in a storm, but on a zzz weather day, rather than sitting inside and looking at long range models I highly recommend going outside. The coming cold is dangerous, but we know how to layer. Embrace winter!