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Rain will move in this evening, until then a cloudy, cool, breezy day.  Will only manage mid/upper 30's for a high. Reached mid-60's yesterday with a few showers.

5 hours ago, Brian D said:

About 3/4 - 1" of rain around here so far with scattered showers in the area. Next round slated for tomorrow into Monday. My deceased son's b-day tomorrow. Getting together with family. Going to be an ugly day, as winds will be running 30-40 off the Lake with the rain starting around midday.

Similar weather on tap over this way. At least it’s warm today, mid 60's. 
Tomorrow will be 17 years since my Grandpa died. He was more like a Dad tho. 

19 this morning.  Should be a fairly nice day topping out in the mid-50's.

Cold night in N Lower with some single digits.

A chilly late April day across the sub.  Still in the low-30's here with full sun at 1 pm... a northeast breeze to boot.

Low this morning was 25 as clouds held on longer than expected.  Coldest temp I could find was Ironwood at 17.  Point tonight has 21, n lower could reach mid-teens.

32, windy with snow showers this afternoon after a very nice morning high of 60, even a couple claps of thunder... first of the season.

Pretty nice day here.  Sunny, light winds, 48 for the high.  Tomorrow looks like a warm spring day with a high in the low 60's (haven't had many), then turning a lil rainy Monday night.  Tuesday will see a morning high around 48 with temps falling to around 30 for the afternoon as rain changes to snow with an inch or so. Upper teens possible Tuesday night.  Maples have some buds but other than that, the green up hasn't begun here.

7 hours ago, Brian D said:

Snow showers moving through today. Already seen a few flakes early this morning. More convective stuff slated for the afternoon. Could see a little white on the grass, if I get hit good.

Spittin some snow here as well this morning, mid-30's. Cool, seasonal weekend on tap but should see a fair amount of sun by tomorrow afternoon and Sunday. All in all, not bad.

Made it to 56 here today with light winds, full sun...felt really nice.  Opened the windows for some fresh air. Hopefully done with the white stuff.

Nice day albeit a bit breezy, 49 for the high.  Snow cover becoming patchy.  Should hear the swamp peepers any day now.

16 hours ago, bowtie` said:

I bet your chickens would flip your pros and cons.

A chicken needs two things to be happy, food and water.  A rooster needs three.

1 hour ago, Met1985 said:

I give this winter a D. Some cold weather but too little snow. 

How much did you receive vs your average?

I'll go with a D+.

cons:

100" below avg

brown Christmas

persistent thaws

pros:

30+ inch storm in January which had a blizzard warning (55 inches for the month)

Blizzard a few days ago

Sunny with a forecast high of 50 today should accelerate the melt, still a dense 14 inches otg.  Interesting to see most lakes in the UP are ice free with the exception of Marquette County and the tip of the Keweenaw.  That could change today.

11 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

What was your deepest snow this season?

31 inches during that 2 week stretch of winter in mid January.

Here's some bigger totals I've been able to find so far.  I'm sure MQT will post event totals later today.

Eagle Mine co-op 9sw Big bay- 33" 

My house- 28"

Herman co-op- 28" (2.10 LE- average ratio 13:1) a little sus with that ratio.

Ishpeming NWS employee 24"

Nat'l Mine NWS employee 24"

MQT office 19" (3.25" LE- average ratio 5.8:1)

Champion co-op- 17.5" (3.27 LE- average ratio 5.3:1)

Just now, Stebo said:

How are the chickens handling all of this?

Snug as a bug.

4 hours ago, Stebo said:

Marquette yesterday ended up with 14" of snow on 2.40" of liquid. Talk about a complete cement job.

MQT's total as of this morning 7 am 19" 3.25 LE

Got dumped on here last night.  

Haven't been out yet but getting ready to start clearing snow.  Just looking out, it's deep.  Snowed all night.

Solid band of snow has been parked here along the higher terrain ridge for a few hours now. Should do well tonight. I do notice it’s a bit west of the weather office so idk how they’ll fare.

1 hour ago, michsnowfreak said:

Beautiful. The storm sure was a dud outside of the higher elevations/huron mountains (and even there, much lower than forecast).

For sure. Herman over to Eagle Mine to my area received a foot overnight, with me seeing another 8 today. Herman and Eagle mine will report in the morning their totals for today. South east of here Mqt received 8.3 overnight and 6.1 today with a LE of 2.5”.

if in fact I see 6-8 tonight I will exceed the 2 foot mark so still a great late season storm. MQT might break 20” as well. Had ratios been the 10:1 expected, the bigger totals would have panned out here in the higher terrain. Marquette the city was just a bust all together. 

Blizzard warning replaced this afternoon with a wsw for 6-8 inches tonight as snow has picked back up the past couple hours after a lull this afternoon.  Ratios today were closer to 6-7:1 so totals will be much lower than forecast but the snow is extremely dense.  A couple pics from earlier today.

Went out for a quick measure on the drive.  Most models have another 15-18".  Looking at webcams down in Marquette, there's little to no accumulation.  Same from talking to a friend in Big Bay. Snowbelt here getting hammered.

8 hours ago, Brian D said:

Didn't you have a big one last year on Mayday? Record snow for May I thought.

Yes, May 2nd and 3rd just under 3 feet fell.  It was a very damaging storm tree wise.

Been coming down heavy all night.  Just glancing out, from what I can see looks like at least 10 inches has fallen.  Point has up to 24 more in total with the morning AFD stating another 10-12 possible by early afternoon. Winds have been gusty but nothing out of hand, at least here. 

Stoked the fire, gonna go back to bed for a while lol

12 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

Post lots of pics.  Would love to find a good webcam up there.

There’s several in Marquette, use to be one in Big Bay at the motel but none that I’m aware of up this way. This area and the area where the heaviest snow will fall is pretty remote