michsnowfreak

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.

Ratios here were actually 10-14:1 per dtx (didn't finish melting mine) but the cement was warm so that's why it was so slushy

I noticed that too. Spots of the pavement had very little snow/slush depth and other spots had more. Under trees had less. It also got up to 36ﾟ here so that helped with melting/compaction. Still a nice solid blanket of white several inches deep that should freeze up nicely tonight with temperatures going into the 20s.

MKE got 10.1".

Really enjoyed this one. It was awesome out this morning. The snow has compacted some and fallen off the trees for the most part now but there's still plenty of white gold around. This is the 3rd snowfall since January that I could not use my snowblower because it was clogging lol. I do miss powder but these wet snows make for incredible scenes. Unlike last friday's storm where I missed the heavier amounts of snow to my north and west, this one seemed to hit the immediate metro/south burbs the hardest. I finished with 5.3" which brings my March total to 12.4" and season to 34.0". DTW had 5.2" bringing March to 13.0" and season to 34.2".

We got a very drifty 2.4" Dec 23 then another 2.4" christmas eve/day. It was indeed gorgeous and perfectly timed.

We have been killing it with scenery since late Jan. It's gorgeous out! Jan 22 snowstorm Jan 25 snowstorm Feb 22 ice storm Mar 3 snowstorm Mar 10 snowstorm

It never gets old waking up and opening the curtains to a fresh Winter wonderland. It's really coming down and it's absolutely gorgeous outside. Nearing 4 inches already.

Downriver doing good so far

The winters of the 1940s were terrible snow years in the lower Great Lakes, but obviously in those examples you mentioned there is missing data. I'm just curious what you mean "techniques were different" back then. At 1st order sites that measured snowfall and depth without missing data, there is nothing to show that anything was done differently back then than is done now.

DTX is talking 12-1 ratios here. Will be interesting to see if that transpires

There was so much carrying on about snowfall amounts falling short with the pre-Christmas storm, I kept thinking, were you guys actually out in it? Road conditions were terrible.

What a way to run a morch

DTX calling for 11-13:1 ratios.