michsnowfreak

You know it's mid-March sun angle when...

Not often you see this. Through the first half of March, monthly snowfall sits at 15.7" for Detroit and a trace for Sault Ste Marie.

We're 3 years running now with late April snowfalls. If anything is hit or miss it's late season snows. 2005 had an incredible late season snowstorm Apr 23-24. Some years you get nothing. At Detroit the earliest last flakes were March 11, 1946. The latest was May 31, 1910.

Those maps were horrible.They had interns playing around with Co-Op data and the maps were extremely inaccurate. I'm fine with them stopping them.

If they mandated a rule that you can't start a dataset in the 1970s, these people would give up their day jobs. Locally spring snowfall actually has been on the decline, mostly because of March (even though this is a top ten snowy march lol). But of course Winter snowfall has been on the rise, as has the frequency of bigger snow falls and deeper snow packs. Change in snowfall at Detroit 1973-2022 Fall 3.0 to 2.2 Winter 31.6 to 37.7 Spring 9.6 to 6.5 Net 44.2 to 46.0 POR (1880-2022) Fall 2.8 to 2.7 Winter 26.4 to 32.9 Spring 10.4 to 6.6 Net 39.8 to 42.2

Considering we snow off and on from October through May, and snow averages are at all time highs for many great lakes cities, I don't think I'm going to grow pineapples soon.

Yes it went from very cold to hot. Not sure if you're area got accumulation, it was mostly east side. But we did have snowflakes 5 days in a row (May 8-12).

Actually...see the 11pm-1am heavy snow of May 10-11, 2020.

I remember you saying that when I originally posted it!

I was jealous of missing that one. We only had about a half inch here, just missed it to the south. But as mentioned we have been on a string of late snowfalls. April 18, 2022 April 21, 2021 April 17, 2020

I guess taken literally "dusting AT BEST" would imply to me T-0.4". But the weather observer in me doesn't use those phrases lol.

Meanwhile the last 3 April's at DTW 2022- 4.1" 2021- 3.6" 2020- 4.9" The April 20/21, 2021 snowstorm dropped 3.6" at DTW but 4.4" here and with things blooming early, the scenes on Apr 21st were surreal.

Mostly just flurries and light snow showers except 1.8" with the Nov 19 lake enhanced arctic front

It was very strange in that it melted in some spots of the grass in the afternoon and not other spots. Wherever old snow was present it did not melt at all. I have bare areas and areas in the shade with 3-5" currently lol. But the thread title event was for the day before. Dtw also got 0.7 that melted fairly quickly.

With the rest of march and april to go, it's now a realistic goal to see if DTW can hit 40 inches. Definitely did not foresee that a month ago

There's this huge complex that connects a lot of different stores and what not and they always plow the snow into several massive mountains. They all had that look today lol

Got 2.2" of snow yesterday, bringing the March total to 15.3" & season 36.7". DTW finished with 2.0", bringing the March total to 15.7" and season 36.9" (a tie with me, but got there differently lol). This is the 2nd snowiest first 2 weeks of March on record, only 1900 was snowier. If no more snow falls this month it will be tied for the 7th snowiest March on record. Quite the turnaround from February. Only complaint about this active March is it's just not the time of year to build a snowpack. Sun angle and marginal temps means lots of melting between snow storms. Few pictures from this morning. In the first pic you can see the snow glittering. The 2nd pic I thought was cool, massive dirty snowbanks covered in fresh snow looked like mountains.

Before today's new snow, we had several inches in full shaded areas and bare in full sun.

Another snowy March day. Although this time it was just like a gentle snow globe, only sticking to the colder surfaces despite temps near freezing.

This month has been a constant stream of snowing and melting, snowing and melting. If this pattern were in december, even with the mild temperatures, there would be a lot more left on the ground. You should've come 10 days ago for all the fun.

It melted very fast. This was the depth at 1pm and 8pm.

I was expecting the snow to pretty much go poof before it hit us so it was a pleasant surprise to see a fresh 0.7" this morning. Heavier to my south and west. Up to 13.1" in March and 34.7" on the season. DTW also saw 0.7", so 13.7" March and 34.9" season.

Very impressive. I'm at 34.0" not counting the snow thus morning. Can't complain tho with the type of winter it's been for most.

Just curious. Did you measure, or are you going by what was on the DTX storm summary? The reason I ask is because I know the person who called in the 2.5" for Canton (Aaron, he posts here sometimes) and that report was from like 7am. His final total was 4.2". It's always annoying when they use reports from midstorm in the final summary. @AWMT30 @AWMT30

Temps hovered in the mid 30s all afternoon and the snow depth compacted from 5" to 3", which is now freezing up and crunchy. Saw this big snowman tonight.