RogueWaves

He's elsewhere - busy trying to nail down this weekend's LES blast

Legit thought it was our moment as well. Was somewhere public with a monitor on a wall and was shocked to see their wx map with 15-25" painted across most of SMI. My thought was "finally - a real deal monster bliz" Got the winds, flakes were pixies, but the ULL got separated from the SLP when it came flying up towards SMI - ULL kept going and didn't make the turn the SLP did as forecasted to do. That's how I remember it anyways. Huge disappointment for me. Thought for sure Christmas '09 was coming our way too, then it made that stupid hard left turn and looped around for places like Nebraska and MN, then finally Chicago even scored some on the rear end.

Sorry, but where's PHN again?? I know Jackson scored an even 20" in that Dec '00 bliz. I really come to AmWx for the entertainment value! @Stevo6899 shouldn't be faulted for wanting to see a 20+ Big Dog, but to look in the corner of Michigan least likely to get one is the odd part. Much of the balance of The Mitt has had several, but its usually not widespread, just a localized area. 30+ even more so falls into that camp. I was there for '67 with 23" and drifts to roof tops. Only problem was my age (two yrs) so can't remember a single flake, lol. Been fortunate to see (4) 18" Big Dogs at my addresses but I'm also still hoping for that unicorn 20+ hit for mby. Kzoo hit 20" in GHD-2, SWMI scored 20+ in the PV Bliz of '14 and Jan '99 Bliz. I don't think GHD-1 delivered 20" for anyone in Michigan tbh. We (Michiganders) need another golden era like '65-'85. The era of Big Dogs.

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Wayne cnty/DTW cashes chips in these over-whelming cold patterns. Even when OHV gets the best far SEMI is invited to their party. 12/23/04 comes to mind and March '08

Had my car 4 yrs and this morning's -23F was easily the coldest I've seen it. The last time I'd seen such cold, cars didn't have thermometers lol

36 hrs and under does p'good

Just gonna pretend I didn't see that ICON map

Detroit gettin all kinds of winter action! Poor Chicago - at least they've had the Bears to follow

Solid 3-4" at home today. Brushed 4" off the car in Grayling. Kinda fluffy but freezing drizzle in the lower elevations was making the roads horrible and stuck to your windshield making it hard to even see ahead. Worst winter stuff!

I remember quite a few busts like this but ofc that was back in the 80's Canton finally did well too.

It's sick how much snow they're getting even Moscow has like 26" otg. And they have a slightly warmer climate than Detroit. Worst since 1970 per the news.

07-08 Nina was a parade of 8+ inch storms coming and melting off for me. So far, 25-26 Nina has been a parade of 3+ inch storms coming and melting off for me. I know which I'd rather have. But, the drum beat continues this weekend here. Should be a wintry period. Pulling for the NAM's outcome

Congrats on the surprise over-performer. Rumors are you can thank NWS budget cuts for the "miss" by forecasters. I wouldn't mind a similar surprise tbh.

I've had two nice hits of 3.5 and 4.5 inches right up the hwy here in Harrison this month - hopefully something will come along soon that hits Mt Pleasant.

This was a lot like Jan '78 but further west track straight up over Kzoo! I'd stumbled on this years ago reading old newspaper clippings. Glad to see some confirmation that it was a beast of a storm west of the track. With cold era, this stuff used to have a chance. Can't buy a latitude bomb lately.

Had that last Friday morning at work up in Grayling. went outside in my shirt - 2 hrs later flakes were flying. 2 hr spring

That's not even concrete - more like slop! Ground was too warm but otherwise a nice storm here with 10". 9.7" this month so far. I do like seeing snow every day.

These peeps NW of here that get a lot of LES don't know what real concrete snow is (this is wet but not 6 or 8:1 concrete by any means lol) Preliminary Local Storm Report National Weather Service Gaylord MI 527 PM EST Sat Jan 10 2026 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0520 PM Snow 1 N Wellston 44.23N 85.95W 01/10/2026 M4.0 Inch Manistee MI Trained Spotter 4 inches of wet heavy concrete like snow. Still snowing at observation time. 12hr total.

M4.0" with the first round - gorgeous wet snow sitting on everything. Mild temp at 30F but just cold enough to stay frozen as the chilly air sweeps in. Future radar brings 2nd round in between midnight and 1 am. Not expecting much if anything with that feature. Seems to skip over for some reason - guessing its mostly lake enhancement and I'm just too far inland.

Absolute dumpage! Best straight-down dendrites I have seen in quite a while. 1.5/hr easy.

After the hype, I was kinda hoping this winter could go BIG with real-deal storms and deep snow pack. AN for snow but its come in mostly bite-sized chunks similar to last winter here. Glancing back at my daily data for 2013-14 (which just happened to be the season I started keeping such) and in that incredible winter I had SEVEN warned storms (Marshall's not in the LES belt just to be clear). Totals for the 7, largest to smallest: 18.0", 10.5", 8.5", 6.3", 6.0" 5.5", 5.5" (plus 3 top-shelf WWA's). In the last 2 winters I've only had two events reach exceed the 5.5" threshold - neither got a warning. Still paying the bill for 13-14 is how it feels at times, lol

50F and .67" of warm-ish rain made for a bunch of parking lot puddles. BUT! Thx to frozen ground and night time temp spike we only lost half the 5-6" glacier leaving us with 2-3" otg heading into tomorrow's odd system. Can I get a headline upgrade? APX says its on the table.

Pouring here - prolly have flood puddles everywhere by morning if this keeps up. 44th straight day of snow cover - streak may be ending.

Nice little storm delivered 3.5" here over night making for a very snowy commute. Most of NMI is well AN in the snow fall dept. East side such as Alpena is just barely so due the lack of traditional storms bringing moisture up from the Gulf. Trails are excellent now that 99% of the tourists are back to work/school. Could've used this for the holidays but at least it wasn't another rain-off like last December 29th or the year prior with no snow.