josh_4184

Not all snow belts have had the same results as the Keweenaw unfortunately, my area is almost 3' down for the year so far, lot of businesses hurting pretty badly right now, but looks to perhaps turn around the next few weeks we shall see.

Definitely a possibility, do you not have a house generator? I bought mine the second year in my house after we kept losing power, best investment i made in quite some time.

To each their own, but in my case I wouldn't mind a PV to setup shop somewhere near the Hudson bay, but I think I would be in the minority in the subforum.

Nothing like 4'+ of snow and 100mph winds in the Sierra's

Picked up 3-4" of fluff today, combined with the synoptic snow over New Years Eve have about 12" otg, feels/looks more like winter now albeit maybe early December but I will certainly take it given the rough start for all.

Im at about 10" on the ground, might eek out another 1" tonight not a bad storm for the way this season has gone. The next couple weeks looks like were right back in the crapper again.

Almost 8" on the ground so far,may hit 12" by the morning as the deformation passes through going to fire up the sled tomorrow morning.

LOL atr the APX Afd this morning, been a little bland and boring uncharacteristic for them until today.

Agreed, both Euro and GFS are trending towards a less phased solution and stronger southern stream which would leave the Midwest with a pretty week disturbance with not much moisture to work with, if we get a decent phase, then yest Wisconsin, Michigan are back in the game. Either way looks like the LES belts may get some LES on the backside regardless.

Yea I was watching that myself, North flow does nothing for my area unfortunately, what I would give for a 24 hour sustained NW flow with great moisture, high inversion heights, and 20 degree temps. Don't think its going to happen this winter, haven't even had 6-8 hours. I have picked up about an inch since the switched over a couple hours ago.

Don't forget us Northern Mi folks

Im hoping the Ne Years Eve/Day storm stays further SW which seems to be the trend on latest guidance, but the way this year has gone I have low expectations.

Lol yea I saw that in their AFD, I think everyone around my area especially the businesses are more shocked then anything regarding how bad the snowfall has been. I think my biggest event so far has been around 7-8" but max snowdepth has been only around 6" so far this winter which has to be close to record territory. At our current rate we would be lucky to see about 70-80" for the winter which is half of the annual average. I knew the winter would be a challenge as El-Nino's are generally not very good for our Lake Belts but certainly wasn't expecting 30" at this point. Regarding the LES coming up it does look decent but even after that looks dismal, this looks to be more of a glancing blow from some Arctic Air as the it moderates pretty quickly again a few days later, the Pacific zonal flow is just to strong this year not sure how that is going to get beat down by any strong arctic influences for sustained periods. hopefully the strat warming event does something do help dislodge the PV to give us some cold but even then seems pretty skeptic. How are the businesses/residents fairing up in the Yoop so far as I know it hasn't been much better?

You know its been a bad year when our LES thread only has 2 pages worth of posts and its almost January.

Us Western Lakes Peeps would love that setup as well, heck at this point I would take a clipper with 8" of snow lol.

Merry X-Mas All Last week I thought my area was going to be brown but we did eek out one as well with about 4-5" otg. Average for my areas is around 15" otg during X-Mas, haven seen anything close to that so far this year.

I noticed that as well, for almost week they have been showing a strong cutter and now shifted quite a bit south which is a welcome site. Although certainly dont think this will be the last move. Also note is the GFSV3 which ha sbeen consistently further south for next weeks storm is now where the GFS has been so basically trey flipped. Anyone care to share what the Euro doing no longer have access?

Preaching to the choir my friend, all northern areas are hurting. Hopefully this progged pattern change brings better opportunities. You know its been bad start to the year when Southern Minn and parts of Iowa have more snow on the ground then in Northern Michigan.

Eh, I don't live near a lake, so wouldn't get much use, SxS's can be used on my property for plowing, hauling, and even trail riding granted not as fun as a sled, but if I was in a heated cab would complain to much. Grasping at straws but GFS V3 long range has some snow at least for the UP. Wont verify but at least it looks better then the GFS and Euro showing the monsoons...

Yea sucks to lose 1/3 of the riding season at least before any meaningful winter weather could arrive. I haven't even had to snowblow/shovel my property yet and probably wont have to for quite some time which is unheard for my area. Glad I didn't buy a new sled or spend any money on gear etc this year. I keep saying it every year that I am going to sell my sleds and buy a couple side x sides, this season I may actually go through with it. I then can get use 12 months a year. Hard to justify buying a 12k+ sled to use only 4 months a year if that.

You definitely picked a great year to head south as Hell week this year is not going to happen (feel bad for the businesses) , maybe small portion of the UP but if their is any snow will be toast with every rider heading that way. Hopefully Mid-Jan we can get some snow, but EL-Nino winters are historically pretty bad for Norther Lower.

Man you sure are not kidding, what a dumpster fire run that was, might not even have a white X-Mas for my area which is pretty much unheard off.

At about 35" for the year, but almost all of that came late November, have about 5" on the ground but will probably be gone by next week. Long range looking pretty ugly for the next couple weeks horrible pattern.

18z GFS at least showed some life after 240 hours which is pretty useless but its "something", previous runs were showing zilch for pretty much everyone. Hopefully its a trend in the right direction and would coincide with the much talked about cooling trend for end of the month.

Not looking all that great for the next couple weeks, hoping it turns around towards the end of the month or Xmas-New Years may be a wash. Haven't even fired my sled up yet....