michsnowfreak

After 61 on Sunday was our 1st 60+ since October 29th, we hit 63 yesterday and then stayed in the 50s overnight with high dew points. I have a shaded part of the side of my wide driveway, which gets no sun, and has had some form of a snow pile since November 11th (with exception of a few days after Christmas). It with huge just a week ago, it now completely melted overnight.

Without looking up the exact numbers, I would imagine so

Its blank...and I'm curious...

I agree. Lots of 6-10" snowstorms, the 12+ are more rare in the midwest. I'll take our more frequent snows in a heartbeat over a feast or famine climate, but always want the big one.

Only time will tell. Try not to get too jaded about this unusually winter-less winter for the eastern half of the conus. I dont think the annoyances of suppression or cold and dry will exactly be going away anytime soon anymore than "I wish we had more cold air to work with". FYI, I used 2010-11 thu 2019-20 for my "4 of the past 10 winters were colder than avg" but what interesting, if you count the "cold season" of NDJFM, it was an even 5 colder and 5 milder. Even more interesting....in the 10 yr period 2008-09 thru 2017-18, we actually had 6 of the 10 DJF's COLDER than avg here and 7 of the 10 snowier than avg! I used 2009-10 thru 2018-19 for "6 of the past 10 winters were snowier than avg", didnt count this snow season as it is not over. Regardless of what the pattern shows, we have another month and a half before we are out of the woods for measurable snow (and more than that in rare cases). At 36.6", DTW is 0.6" above avg today, but will fall below in a few days. If 5.9"+ doesnt fall before the end of the season, this will still have been a below avg snow season, though certainly not by much.

Not true. 6 of the past 10 winters here had above avg snowfall, and 4 out of 10 were colder than normal. The bottom line is long range forecasting is very difficult and with social media all over the place jumping on extreme model runs, there needs to be much much much more caution thrown to the general public when the seasonal forecasts are issued.

Bingo. Its miserable. I mean, I deal with it, but everyone has a least favorite time of year and that is mine.

Get well everyone. Lots of stuff going around unfortunately.

If we get one more storm, I'm fine with a pleasant April. April-May is by far my least favorite time of the year (with the exception of opening day and my may 8th birthday lol), so it is what it is. If Detroit gets 5.9" of snow between now and the end of the season, with all its up's and down's, we will hit average snowfall.

How about april 1886 redux? Fitting that a frustrating winter which started with a record snowstorm ends with one too lol.

March opened a Winter wonderland, and 4 days later it looks and feels like spring. At least you got one last snowstorm before you hit the road

Agree, but it would have seemed much better if we could have compressed it by swapping Nov and Dec 1"+ snowcover days at Detroit Nov- 9 (record) (avg 2) Dec- 2 (avg 10) Jan- 12 (avg 17) Feb- 15 (avg 14) Mar- 1 so far (avg 6) Apr- ? (Avg 1) 39 to date...seasonal avg 50

Excellent post and I do the same.

After I posted that...man the snow got nuked. Just some piles left. The rogue drift here and there.

Upper 40 temps and dews and a compact area of heavy rain moved through this morning, absolutely nuked the snow down to just piles and drifts.

A world of difference on this side of Lake Michigan compared to the 60s that hit Chicago on West. Nevertheless, you could feel the warmth in the sun (after a low of 18, high 43 today). Still some drifty snow remains, but allergy season (some call it "spring") is encroaching.

Just a warm Winter and some extra bad luck for Evansville and Paducah. These winters going to happen from time to time. Seeing as though they only average 8 to 10" for met Winter, I'm surprised this has not happened more often to be honest with you.

Interesting. So it seems around 1970 is when they went from the weather bureau to the nws.

Awesome pictures! You are indeed correct, while February did not place either in the warmest or snowiest top 20 list, it was definitely a milder and snowier than average February. Despite the overall mildness, 12 days had measurable snowfall and 15 days had 1"+ snowcover. Also 4° on Valentine's day finally eclipsed the record 7° on Nov 13th for coldest temp of the season. After the 13th coldest November on record, Detroit saw the 9th warmest DJF on record. Season snowfall as we begin March is at 36.6", a few inches above average to date, however it doesnt look too wintry coming up. This seems like the type of season that could definitely sneak in a good late season snowstorm, but who knows. Regardless, snowfall has been ok in what has been a frustrating Winter overall.

Saw a nice sunset starting while driving yesterday

If that's the case, then shame for overmeasuring if done intentionally). It's actually been a pretty easy Winter for measuring because there's not been too much wind with the storms, with the exception of Wednesday's storm having lots of wind. For what it's worth I can tell you that my storm total of 5.7" had 0.55" of liquid equivalent, and the snow depth was about 5-5.5 at the end of the storm. Current depth about 4.5. I notice in open areas all bets are off, drifts of one plus feet and spots with grass tips peeking out.

So I was lazy and my rain gauge was frozen yesterday lol, so i had initially est the water equivalent for my morning report while i brought the gauge can inside to melt it. I was a bit surprised to see the 5.7" of snow had 0.55" liquid equivalent. My guess would be that the initial 3 inches or so.were ratios a bit less than 10-1, as it got more powdery at the end.

Yesterday with winds gusting to 30-40 mph, blowing and drifting snow all day, and wind chills in the single digits, it was a legit deep winter day. We have not had much wind this winter, and this was the first real drifty snow we have had. I typically do prefer more even snow anyway, but it was nice to see the winter wind howling.

While I dont doubt some people over measure, some seem to lowball too. Measuring every 6 hours will account for a bit of compaction. Today was a lot of blowing and drifting too. Im not in Macomb county, but I've heard several people report they had 6-7". Just food for thought.

Cold and windy while shoveling snow this morning. A bit drifty, so I imagine very drifty in open areas. Storm total of 5.7" here brings the Feb total to 14.9" and season to 36.4" so far....storm total of 5.5" at DTW brings monthly total to 14.7" and season to 36.6". Finally November is no longer the snowiest month this season, however the November storm is still king. Beautiful scenery this morning, and some weenie shovel piles. Will probably go for a walk in a park later.