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With the lack of vegetation in the winter, especially leaves on trees, to impead and dampen the sound shouldn't thunder be heard better in the cold season vs warm?

Two days later and all bombs cancelled. Talk about big swings.....and misses

Marquette back at 0 with today's watch. The streak of the lack of severe weather in lower mi is really quite remarkable

With the ground being so dry barren and hard during those years I wonder if it acted almost like asphalt and retained the heat longer allowing for the warmer lows? Just like a natural heat island effect but on a huge scale.

It would be really something if dtx and grr could break the tornado watch drought thanks to a remnent tropical storm on may 30th of all things

Gusted to 68 mph here in bad axe mi with the front. Good thing the trees are still mostly bare

http://upnorthlive.com/news/local/waves-damage-property-near-lakeshore-in-manistee Just another thing to write home about for this storm.

Mostly sleet here as well today. Granted roads are a mess and the winds yesterday caused some power outages but in the end nothing close to what would have been if the freezing rain would have materialized.

Mostly sleet around here now. Flooding ongoing around bay city mi as the wind forces the waters of lake Huron into Saginaw bay and up the Saginaw river.

Don't trust some of the observation. I can tell by stepping outside that it isn't snowing in bad axe. sleet freezing rain mix with trees that are icing up despite temps right around freezing. It isn't even dripping anymore off the trees pretty much all freezing on contact. Winds are at 40 so this isn't looking good...

Seen a story out of Saginaw that both home depot and manards were sold out generators this afternoon.

Locally this is reminding me of April 3rd 2003 when a few days before the forecast was for 70s only to end up with an extended ZR and sleet event. Seeing the latest gfs shift the ice threat further south towards a euro solution makes me only think of that more

Dayton hit 90 in the obs today.....

C man station west of grand haven gusted to 91mph

To quote Chicago storm: lol