michsnowfreak

1.4" of pure powder this morning. Quick hitter, didn't expect that much. Brings season total to date to 21.5". DTW also had 1.4", season to date 21.1". This was our 6th shovelable snow of the season Nov 19- 1.8" Dec 23- 2.4" Dec 25- 2.4" Jan 22- 3.7" Jan 25- 6.2" Feb 25- 1.4" Then another 4" total of non shovelable snows. Here are some ice storm casualties covered in snow.

January 30/31, 2002 was a snow to ice storm that dropped over 9" of snow followed by very heavy freezing rain. It was an insane storm. For me this is the worst ice storm since that. I know for some of the northern suburbs they really got hit bad and April 2003. There was also a pretty big ice storm in March 1997. But the grand daddy seems to be March 1976. DTE keeps calling this the worst widespread ice storm in 50 years

It was a day of chainsaw sounds in the air. I cannot believe how many trees and tree branches were down. I just realized my neighbor's white pine lost a huge branch on the alley side. Most ironic of all I did not lose anything, not even off of my big balsam fir which lost 3 big limbs during the January 25th snowstorm. Hehe now the city will pick them up when they get all the other branches in the alleys. Also, took some white birch limbs from a few blocks down, put them in the garage to dry out, and they make great decor pieces for fireplaces or Christmas decor. Made this ice storm work for me.

Cromartie will be disappearing.

That's because the extremely cold 1970s make their mark known everywhere. I know some people hate doing it, but we are allowed to look at climate data before 1970. Nashville January 1931-1960: 39.9 1961-1990: 36.2 1991-2020: 39.1 Detroit January 1931-1960: 26.8 1961-1990: 23.2 1991-2020: 25.8

I know nothing about Nashville so I did not realize that but I know UHI can be a problem. But regardless, this region has been on a run of cold snowy Februarys so a mild February is not so surprising. Not fun for Winter lovers, but not surprising.

Toledos avg temp would still be -3.5° for a Nashville January. 2 years ago in February Toledo was closer to Green Bay. If any month was well overdue to be a stinker it was February. Ready to turn the page to March.

That's the city over from me. The damage is crazy and it's everywhere.

I just lost power because they had to shut it off to replace lines down the street where a huge tree fell. Driving around last night I just cannot believe the damage. It's crazy what an ice storm can do. I had 1.05" freezing rain fall (T snow/sleet). If temps were 29-30 instead of 32 it would've been catastrophic.

It's incredible how almost always the NWS MQT sees so much more snow than surrounding areas. But I've seen it twice with my own eyes now how much deeper it is in that localized area. Imo its not really representative of the marquette area as a whole to keep the official numbers there but I sure as hell know where I would move if I lived in the area lol.

What's funny is that while this was undoubtedly a bad Feb, it doesn't feel AS bad as the snowfall number shows since the first week had snowcover and now the ice storm. Likewise, the first 3 weeks if January were so torturous, when the month ended it was like, wow how did we get a foot of snow in that sucky January?

Detroit has only had 0.5" which also would be 2nd least snowy Feb if it holds. It's absolutely the other shoe dropping after an incredible run. 9 of the top 14 snowiest Febs have come since 2008 (records date to 1880)! The month does seem a little wintrier than that since the first week was blanketed in snow and we had the big ice storm.

I've heard about that!

With this wind it would have been a disaster if Ice was still on the trees

I can't upload videos from Facebook here, but I took several videos. This is a screenshot of one where the sky is lighting up blue green from transformers blowing in the distance. The left side is the normal view, the right side is while the transformer is blowing

It was closer to a half inch or a little more here but the hardest hit area was around Ann Arbor. As crappy as this Winter has been, this was our third "picture postcard" event in the past month (Jan 22 & Jan 25 snowstorms). The beauty of ice is incredible but I'll take snow all day everyday. When you hear the cracking of ice laden tree limbs all around you; it's a different feel than being outside in a snowstorm or thunderstorm. There seems to be more ice storm signals on the extended GFS which of course means anybody is game.

The southern 3 rows of counties in Michigan had a bad ice storm yesterday. Worst ice storm in 50 years in Detroit. The beauty is incredible but the destruction sucks. I lucked out with my trees, others didnt.

While we've certainly had some ice storms since then, the news is calling this the worst widespread ice storm in Southeast Michigan in 50 years. The ice has now melted but there's still tons of clean up to do.

It was so beautiful I wished the ice wouldnt melt off the trees as it is, but I know better. Last thing we need is more destruction from this storm. Whats crazy is, as crappy as the winter has been overall, this is the 3rd storm in the last month that has provided absolute postcard scenery (Jan 22 snow, Jan 25 snowstorm, Feb 22 ice storm).

It's almost comical how you can bank on any graph showing warming/less snow/etc starting in the 1970s. But even in doing that, this graph is absolutely wrong in Michigan. Ran the numbers for Detroit, Flint, and Grand Rapids and all had somewhat of an INCREASE. I'd imagine they used Coop data. Missing data that comes with many coop stations would really help bring down the curve.

This was the worst ice storm here since 2002. Walking around this morning and hearing tree limbs crashing to the ground was crazy. Lots of tree limbs and lines down. But SO beautiful. A part of me wishes the ice would stay on the trees for tomorrow when it's cold and sunny, but another part of me realizes that would make things even worse with the wind.

Quite an Ice Storm in southeast MI. Power flickering, more than half of Wyandotte is without power but I have it so far. Tree branches falling and transformers blowing. I can't think of anything more love/hate for a weather enthusiast than an ice storm. The inconvenience is huge but the beauty is incredible. The last pic is a transformer blowing in the distance. I videoed and screenshot it. You can see blue/green frequently lighting up the night sky.

I never realized they had a webcam. I would much rather be up there but the ice storm is pretty cool. After being up North a few days ago though I can't tell you how desperately they need that snow brown ground in st ignace/mackinaw.

Lots of power outages, trees down, and transformers blown in Wyandotte but so far all is good here.

We just had thunder ice too. My white pine is really sagging, hope its ok.