josh_4184

Been that way up here until recently, about 45" under average for the year so far.

Really ripping now for the past couple hours, 1-2" per hour rates. If this keeps up will have 12-16"+ of LES by morning. Little surprised APX hasn't upgraded the surrounding areas to warnings. This is where using LES advisories and warnings are more suitable then using winter storm warnings etc. Still don't like that they dumped those headlines a few years back.

Picked up another 4" today, another 4-6 thru tomorrow. Definitely feels like winter up here.

Have about 13" OTG now, deepest of the season, starting to look like winter around here again for the LES Belts.

Been snowing very heavy past hour l snowflakes size of silver dollars. 2” per hour easy right now.

Picked up about 5" overnight, looks like another 5-9"+ thru tomorrow.

Yea you area has been a better track for synoptic snow its mainly missed our area. Plus no LES equals bad snow depth, my house is about 2 miles from LON same here obviously. We do have about 7" OTG but trails are shot. This LES shot incoming should help a little along with the snow later in the week.

Cadillac as of this moment, will probably change after this week to somewhere around my area.

Look's like one of if not the best LES setup of the year albeit in Mi Jan lol. APX calling for 1-2" per hour, somewhere around my area will see a 12"+ easy.

Hopefully the upcoming potential change will improve for everyone especially the LES belts.

I'm holding you to this

Coming up on what is normally our coldest period of the year will be anything but the next couple weeks.

if I recall one of the reasons why NWS chose the location it did 9 miles SW of Gaylord was due to its elevation. They were able to get the Radar beam in a higher location compared to the city, due to the elevation differences nearby, especially were I am its almost a plateau it would certainly have negative effects on the radar beam performance. Kind of a similar issue that NWS Marquette deals with due to the Huron MTNs and they beam not able to pick up the low level LES in the Keweenaw area very well.

APX moved SW of gaylord about 15 years ago, before that most records were kept at the Airport in Gaylord I believe which sees about 15% less snow then its current location yearly.

I would think APX should have good records for my area since the NWS is only about 8 miles east of my location , although their website isn't the best they do have some pages for snowfall etc.

I would be curious to see if Northern Mi and and UP have had similar climate changes in the same period. I have had relatively limited time up here about 8 years so don't have much to base my own experience.

Yea Gaylord City area is a little less, they missed out on the recent LES, it stayed south of town towards my area. In a WNW flow Southern Otsego does better. Regardless all areas are in a sad state, and I agree about the sport. Although I will say I was an avid snowmobiler until I moved up here then the fun kind of dwindled away. Maybe part because you get a little burned out of shoveling. driving. looking at snow from Nov to April (Normal years) although I love it it does take some of the fun away. also the sport is very expensive for as little as you can enjoy it versus Summer/warm activites such as Sxs/ATVs etc which can be used all year.

Been a long time, we usually cash in on clippers with extended period NW Winds doesn't seem to be the norm the past few years. My first couple years up in Gaylord area we were hitting 175"+ year ever year, the past 3 or 4 not even hitting the average around 140-150. Again sounds pretty petty when other areas cant even muster 40" but when living in snowbelts you just get used to heavy yearly snow.

Such an odd winter with the majority of our snow being synoptic so far, usually 70% is from LES. We haven't really had to many synoptic events in the past few years besides a few clippers here and there. Next few weeks look pretty tough for everyone regarding storms and Cold/LES chances. As you said at least the lakes will not freeze. Still about 25" below normal on the year around 40% deficit doubtful we hit average this year among most everyone.

Yea, it was coming down at 1-2" an hour for a while in that band, definitely has settled some already. I was at about 12" otg at my house which is about 14 miles SW of Gaylord near LON on C38.

Picked up another 3-4" overnight of Fluff, finally looks like winter around here. Not LES related but looking like upwards of 6" of cement for tomorrow and another decent look for Friday/Saturday. Nice to be able to use the new Snow Plow (probably why the winter has been so terrible :))

Ripping LES right now picked up another 4" since this morning, starting picking up again around 7, could pick up another 3-4 before it shuts down later this evening as winds veer form the south with the approaching system. Looking like 3-6" of cement followed by another couple inches of LES from tomorrows system. Friday.Satruday may be another shot at some synoptic. Slowly gaining from the slow start.

Ended up with about 10", looking at a few more the next few days but nothing significant.

Ha tells you all you need to know about this winter. The thread is only about a week old, normally we have a thread around mid-late November. Last years thread was only a few pages long the whole season as well. LES just hasn't been very good the past few years.

I couldn't imagine if your area actually had decent elevation, I'm at about 1500' if you were close to ne you would be your own Tug.