michsnowfreak

I hope next year has more cold air, I would be willing to sacrifice some actual snowfall for more sustained snowcover. We had a few good snowstorms here this Winter, but I like cold and white lol. One thing I will say about this snow season, it was not a short one from start to finish lol. A record November 11 snowstorm now we both MAY be looking at an April 17th snowstorm.

There are scattered spots throughout the northern tier states that also had above average snowfall, but not necessarily any one large swath. Surprisingly a lot of areas running close to average, a few inches either side, despite the mild weather.

I welcome it further north. Ive had a lot of spare time on my hands being couped up inside, so ive been perusing old weather data and newspaper stories for Detroit but also Chicago. Looking at past data is fascinating as always, and shows how most seasons have ups and downs. Most years, looking at the total snowfall or mean temp doesnt do the season justice (be it in a good or a bad way). Ive never been a fan of the term stat padding, but when I look at old data (ie, its ALWAYS been around and can apply to most seasons), I hate the term even more lol. Its interesting to hear you refer to this winter a a waste and awful down there....as both snowfall and snowcover were well above avg lol.

Let's nudge it a bit north.

Awesome. Not to mention, you get much more snow than negaunee.

I really highly doubt 4' as those models always have clown totals in big storms. However that said, I have no doubt your area will come in as the jackpot like often does. The strongest storms seem to hit your area outside the Winter months, and these strong storms which cause lower ratios for most folks pound you in the higher elevations with higher ratios. I was telling my mom about how much snow you are expecting, she still remembers the great time we had when we went up to your area, went to that cafe and everything. I forget, what actual town do you live in?

Exactly. Who's planting anything in the middle of April lol? Just people wanting to complain, probably the same people that complained that she waited 2 days too long to shut us down in the 1st place

We had a lot of graupel showers here on Thursday afternoon. They always remind me of dippin dots lol. Mlive posted an article about it, and I too did not realize what it was until they posted this. We ended up having regular snowflakes Thursday evening so there was still "real" snow lol, but now next time I see Fall or Spring graupel I will know that that technically is snow, unlike sleet or hail (even though sleet or even hail technically counts in the snow column of weather records). https://www.mlive.com/weather/2020/04/is-it-hail-is-it-sleet-no-its-graupel-falling-from-the-sky.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aanews_sf&utm_source=facebook

How much left on the ground there? Technically, graupel is snow. Latest I've ever seen snowflakes down here is May 20, 2002, earliest is October 12, 2006.

I was checking and current snow depths in the upper peninsula, and snow is for the most part gone except in the higher elevations. And those same elevations will jackpot this storm.

I used it once, can't remember when lol

So is their version of Winter Wonderland lol

Snow showers continued off and on overnight. I only a trace, but DTW picked up 0.2", and isolated spots got more. The highest total I saw was 1.0" in Ann Arbor. The sky last night was so cool to see the snow clouds dot an otherwise clear sky.

We had massive flakes March 22nd. Typically winter flakes are smaller when its colder.

72F yesterday was the warmest since early October, today off and on rain, snow, and graupel showers. Lots of dippin dots lol

Bring it on . Madison's 2 feet of snow forecast for Feb 26 turned into a 5.7" snowfall here.

The storms had continuous lightning here, heavy rain, and quite a bit of small marble sized hail.

Too far out to predict a big storm in my opinion, but several chances of snow seem on the table. This is the part beavis doesnt get why people gripe that Winter is long in the Midwest lol. Even in a mild Winter like this, the snow started before Halloween and 5.5 months later we still have possibly yet to see the last snow.

That ice storm was crazy. It was our worst ice storm in many years, on April 15th no less.

Today is the 134th anniversary of detroit's 24.5" April snowstorm. Reading the Wed, April 7, 1886 Detroit Free Press account of the storm is absolutely fantastic. It was truly a strangling of wet, damp extremely deep snow that caught a city at the beginning of Spring by shock

Weenie run of the euro aside, it's shocking looking at the GEFS ensemble mean for snowfall for mid April. It would be one thing if 1 or 2 members showed a freak snowstorm, but the mean has quite a bit of snow for the Great Lakes region.

Mid April looking unseasonably cold. Let's go for one more snowfall.

There are a lot of nice huge parks around here, like little patches of rural up North in the middle of metropolitan area. Getting fresh air, despite allergy season starting, is not a bad idea.

Oh it absolutely is in my area, same as you describe. I literally have not left my house in 9 days and that was just for a quick protected sanitize grocery trip. Do not plan to leave for some other time either. However word on the street is that everything is pretty empty. As was posted in a link above, metro Detroit is getting an A to B for social distancing. Not sure about Chicago but I think they're doing pretty good too. My comment was in reference to the widespread coverage that people outside of the heavily populated metro areas are not taking this as seriously.

Years down the road when we look back on this pandemic, it's going to seem so ridiculous that some Americans were willing to risk their lives because they could not stay cooped up in their homes were a few months. Stay home, stay healthy!