michsnowfreak

As I highly suspected and noted weeks ago....with cold entrenched over the Great Lakes & northeast, we would undoubtedly hear more about warm anomalies elsewhere.

Ive loved it...though I do want a big storm.

Indeed a strong El Nino would usually be a torch December in Michigan, and likely the warmest month of an overall mild winter. This December was 4-5° colder than avg.

Picked up another half inch of fluffy snow last night and another 0.2" this morning. So sparkly. At 18.0" on the season now, DTW at 17.5".

The New Years Eve snow dropped anywhere from 1.5-3" in southeast MI. It was glittery and beautiful. Both here & DTW picked up 2.1" last evening. Its incredible how well we do the nickel and dime. Now time for a big one. December snow totaled 11.6" here, season to date 17.3". At DTW December snow totaled 10.9" with 16.8" season to date.

The extraordinary warmth in the mountain west is impressive and thankfully far away. 90+ percent of the people who post on this forum had a solidly colder than avg December.

Agree. If we can kick off cold with a big storm than get a cold clipper pattern, that's all good.

0.3" of snow then some freezing drizzle. Second round of snow this afternoon/evening looks better. We are nickel and diming like a boss so far this winter lol.

Definitely can't say the storm was boring here. 0.77" of rain. Temps shot up to 60 with dewpoint of 59 (dtw 61/59) late sunday evening, then crashed to the low 20s with wind chills near 0 by sunrise Monday. Snow squalls and nonstop blowing snow all day yesterday, gusts 45-55mph, snowfall amounted to 1.8" here. So snow had been on the ground continuously from November 29 to December 20, melted 5 days before Christmas, and white ground returned 3 days after. Can't make it up.

Snowin and blowing away. Winter quickly has returned.

DTW peaked at 61F at 9pm. Temp fell from 59F at midnight to 23F at 8am. Wind chills are currently around 0F with snow squalls approaching.

Nice! Im staying in Newberry Feb 18-21 but will be going to different areas.

Weeklies continue to show cold in the Great Lakes the entire run. The widespread cold signal for Jan 19-26 is very stark for so far out.

Lol hey! Seriously though, no one should care about anyone's backyard but their own. I was actually a bit surprised how quickly Chicago lost their snow, as evidenced by the mid-december appearance of beavis. Despite season to date being 17.4" at ORD & 12.9" at DTW....ORD has only had 15 days with 1"+ snowcover vs 20 days at DTW. These type of winters typically give a big storm or two to DTW, so we will see what the season brings.

DTW was 43 at 6pm and 57 at 7pm

That's what im hoping. Just need to get snow back and then it can stay cold cold cold. We had snow on the ground from Nov 29 thru Dec 20. Now the ground has been bare a week and those high dews with tonight's storm will even nuke any remaining piles til the arctic front and snow squalls tmrw.

Weeklies continue to show cold in the Great Lakes the entire run. The widespread cold signal for Jan 19-26 is very stark for so far out.

I would kill to be by Lake Superior in the UP for this one. What an incredible blizzard it will be. Heading up there in mid Feb so at least a good base is being laid!

Now that you bring that up I do remember that about the depth. Couldn't remember if it was from big dogs or just back to back great storms (we spent 2 straight months in 2014 between 14-21" depth with the biggest single storm 11"). Being the climo guy its so easy for me to look up anyone's data in the US, but Canada is way more difficult. I have an environment Canada bookmark, as im other interested in peaking at Windsor or Toronto, but its definitely nowhere near as user friendly as the NWS. And yeah they hand out advisories like candy in lower MI lol.

They've issues some WSW that other offices would call blizzard warnings. Just like GRR with their advisory for a lake squall or 4-7" synoptic snow. I put little faith in the nws offices decision on what to issue

Yes this year we've not had any sweet spot tracks. Just accumulated the nickel and dime like a boss per usual. Im antsy for a good 6"+ storm. BTW when did Toronto get 2? Its harder to look up their data since they're Canada. I remember they had 1 within the last few years after some unusually low winters...mother nature always evens it out...I gave the warning years ago that we were gonna pay for our above avg snow seasons here....and I feel we've done that so time to turn it back around.

Yeah. But its also about climate. The east coast gets way more big dogs but way less snowstorms overall. Completely different climates. I too wish white lake had longer records

Thats a good threshold imo. And yes the hills definitely get more. I just dont like this nonsense worrying about 18"+ that some expect. Since records began at DTX office in 1996 there have been 12 storms of 10"+ and DTW has had 10. However of those, 7 were 12"+ at DTX and just 2 at DTW. That said, the biggest at DTX was 15.5" (Nov 2015) and DTW biggest was actually greater (16.7" - Feb 2015).

Im so frickin jealous of the UP. They are going to get crushed with this blizzard. At least the snow base will be building up for when I go in mid February. Been a while since our region has seen such a wound up storm...perhaps a good sign for the lower Lakes at some point in January or February?

Weeklies continue to have average to below avg temps all of January.