michsnowfreak

I estimate 4-5" of my 19.8" is lake effect or lake enhanced.

I don't pay close attention to Chicago but I would assume there's been less on the lakeshore than ORD.

Chicago has already passed their futility record though

There's been signs for a while that it will turn colder at the end of February. There's a lot of cold building in Canada and then the warmth to the south is going to create quite a contrast of airmasses. Potential is definitely there.

And yet we've not come remotely close to a Morch since 2012. It's actually pretty sad that anybody in a northern climate like this would wish for that when so many in our states make a living off of growing fruit. Morch was a year long disaster for crops.

I only pointed that out because rogue mentioned a model trend in recent years of snow to the north and snow to the south of us, implying that south of us had more snowstorms

Nah. I just like to troll the troll once in a while when the weather is boring (and it's definitely boring right now). It would be too exhausting to do all the time.

Wishful thinking again.

Not really. We've gotten far more advisory and warning criteria snowstorms than Indiana and Ohio. It's the model fantasy storms that turn to dust that annoy us all. One of these days a storm is not gonna shear out and it will be like the boy who cried wolf. No one will believe it and someone will get absolutely buried.

One thing I will say is I definitely made the most of being outdoors when there was snow. Especially since I love nature photography. I know somehow in SNE around the "let's go for futility" bandwagon but I'm telling you, if you get a snowstorm it's good for the snow weenies soul to go out and enjoy it.

The seasonal average for Detroit is 45.0". The 19.8" is my backyard in Wyandotte, MI. DTW officially is 19.3", average to date 29.9" (so still 15" more to go on average). There have been 25 days with 1"+ snow on the ground and average for a winter is 50. One side note, we are a little less feast/famine out here than you guys are due the differences in climate. We see more frequent snow but less huge storms. So the chances of 100" in a month or a single digit Winter such as Boston has seen each of recently, just does not happen here. I've been measuring snow in my backyard for 28 years, and the snowiest winter I've had was 96.2" in 2013-14, and the least snowy was 25.5" in 2011-12.

I think the entire eastern half of the US south of at least 45N has had a sh*t winter. It's not been as bad in SE MI as in SNE, but still. I'm at 19.8" season to date. There was a period of winter in mid November, Christmas week, and late Jan to early Feb. Snow blanketed the ground for a few days in mid Nov, for a week at Christmas (perfect timing) and for 17 straight days Jan into Feb. That's it. I spent lots of time outdoors the previous several weeks enjoying the snow and with it being sunny and dry this weekend I said "now that the weather is awful and sunny, I can get stuff done indoors" lol

Good post. Frustration for most is understandable but acting like everyone knows what's going to happen is just silly. None of us know what's going to happen but I do know that we have over 2 more months before we are out of the woods for accumulating snow potential.

2011-12 was the lowest snow season in my now 28 years of measuring snowfall. I finished with 25.5". It was certainly a terrible Winter but March was really the difference maker. Had it been even an average March the season would have blended in with just other subpar winters and not the stinker it is remembered for. While the final snowfall number is certainly what we all look at, a lot of other factors come in to play, like days with snow on the ground, how deep did the snow get at its deepest, what was the biggest storm, how cold, etc. I'm at 19.8" so far so technically I could still fall below 2011-12 but there really is a long way to go. Plus I've had a bigger storms and more days with snow on the ground than in 2011-12.

Meaning I have an 8 hour drive (staying in L'anse near the Keweenaw) And some sort of storm looks like a certainly statewide later Thursday into Thursday night.

Not sure how well it was in Toledo, but we had a 17 day in a row stretch here with snow on the ground (Jan 22 - Feb 7) and it was quite scenic most of the time. I spent tons of time outdoors. Now that the weather has turned awful and sunny, I'm getting stuff done inside

UP should add some snow in the coming weeks as well. It's a mild Winter for them too but the trails will be fine. I'm excited to head up there Thursday. Definitely a crap winter for Chicago but it certainly won't end up as the worst, New York actually has a legit shot at that though.

Thursday is my travel day to the UP. I may be leaving early in the morning

It's nice of you to be so active this month. You did not post at all the last few Februaries. I wonder why? You must have missed the post from a meteorologist explaining that the CFS site does not match up with weatherbell or other sites. I don't like palm trees unless I'm on a tropical vacation. I have plenty of conifers in my yard, more suited for the northern climate I live in. I would never waste my time to try and grow something thats suited for a climate with an annual temperature 20°+ warmer than my own.

We had accumulation here May 10, 2020

No, only for snowcover retention

Ready to be buried in March

With Detroit being at 19.3", even though it's only 5 more inches than Chicago, it really makes a difference in that there's a lot of years that we're at that point or lower by mid February. So it's not even worth looking up those stats for Detroit. However I did double check the Chicago stats just to see what years they were and I actually came up with 24 years not 22, And 3 years in the past 60 (you forgot 1997-98).

On Jan 25, Detroit got 6.5" of snow with a high/low of 33/32 and Toledo got 4.7" of snow with a high/low of 34/33. April powder storm incoming!

In 142 years of record, there have been 35 storms of 6"+ on/after March 1st at Detroit.