RogueWaves

Last March it was more N Central and NEMI (NWMI was spared). This time its a coast-to-coast battle zone of ice that I will be commuting thru in the morning. Latest map (7 pm)

Just got the backside winds (50+ gusts) and squalls plus 1.5" of lake stuff that fell today. Could barely see across the street. Less than a week ago I was swinging my clubs in short sleeves. Since then 9.5" of snow and at least 0.25" of ice with some short-term bliz conditions for good measure. Happy MET spring!

APX has chosen 6" as the min depth to tally-up on their snow page. They don't break it down lower. Most including West Branch already have more than a typical season total. Hope this explains.

I'm likely getting a "storm day" off of work tomorrow. Grayling may be taking it hard again in the ice storm dept. Preliminary Local Storm Report National Weather Service Gaylord MI 1051 PM EDT Sun Mar 15 2026 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 1040 PM Freezing Rain Houghton Lake 44.30N 84.76W 03/15/2026 U0.00 Inch Roscommon MI Amateur Radio Trees and large limbs are being downed by ice.

I'd say yes to the 3+ question. Stations in NMI use number of days with 6+ as their standard. The nearest station reporting such is about 20 miles due east of me. All NMI stations are AN season to date, even non-LES locales such as my own. Big storms (warning level) and deep snow are my key winter likes. Deep cold that may excite you and others, I actually deduct points for, lol. Lake has been iced since early December. I haven't had a daily high at or below freezing since March 1st yet somehow I have solid snow cover here from back to back storms. Meanwhile, DTW hit 70F today. It's pretty wild.

Anyone else reminded of Oct 19th?

9.5 in December right before the pull-back. Nearly that (9+) later in Feb again right before the final thaw-off. Windy storms have made measurement a challenge but Harrison has had 8.5-9" since Friday, and I went from a bare balcony to now a 10" drift. Looks like mid-January again out there and I was ready for spring tbh. This from APX is not nice - so glad to miss this round of ice. 32F attm here at home. Unfortunately, whoever gets into the heavier freezing rain will likely see significant impacts...to include power outages and tree damage...with both of these being exacerbated by increasingly gusty winds during the day Monday. And, unlike last years historic ice storm, the ground temperatures are several degrees colder with this event...supporting very icy driving conditions as well.

For mby? 4+ melting down to puddles, then the backside blasting thru making a frozen mess of everything for several days. Then spring happens next weekend. The Robins are not too pleased with back-2-back storms greeting their arrival.

Other than Nov 28-29 big storms have avoided us completely here in Mid-Michigan. One the worst stretches of my life in that regard. Midland's climo history is not that great for Big Dogs fwiw. Harrison is marginally better but still kind in-between the target zones.

I've had more snow than most on this sub, including a white Christmas. But, another year of just an avg season (fail), and no warning-level storms (fail), and depth never reached dbl-digits (fail). But I did have 99 consecutive days of legit snow cover (I don't count "T" as snow cover days). How do I score this one?

Hourly is a smorgasbord of p-types up here. 4.2" of snow, just to get washed down a drain by 1+ inch of rain and mid-40's. Yesterday's storm will be the better of the two. Spring needs to get here asap

5.5" today. May be bigger than this big dog. Waiting for GRR's overnight updates but from the APX latest for Gladwin east of me, another wet 3-5" seems reasonable unless things really shift south.

All signs from nature are screaming real winter's over. Couple counties south this morning have greening grass and worms out. I've got summer birds here even. Sucky cold spells are typical spring thing for NMI so I'm hardly saying last flakes have flown but this and last winter have closely paralleled one another and I expect that will be the case as we continue. Just hoping the crap 3rd week of May doesn't repeat. Worst in a century so the odds are against ofc. I'm just 0.9" ahead of last season's total, and that difference is the 1" bigger largest storm vs last winter. Would be wild if I can go without more measurable snow.

I scored my 0.7" yesterday and another dust-up this morning. Actual grass had JUST made its appearance since before Thanksgiving, then we cover it all up and start over again. Clipper pattern I thought was dead making a resurgence this week. Large totals run N or S of here these last two winters - ready to move on to spring tbh.

Said b4 - this place has gr8 entertainment value. Almost better if there's no real wx happening

Congrats - SEMI's been having a p'good run this winter! 72nd straight day of snow cover (not a "T" lowest was a 1-day 1.5" right after the 50 deg rainstorm).

Solid 1.5" today with plows and snow machines all over the place this evening. Depth at 9.5" equaling my highest back in December right before the holiday week warm-up. 2nd wave stays south but another disturbance on the models for Sunday could be measurable.

HRRR:

Back-to-back 200+ inch seasons in NWMI while dealing with a major illness did the same to me. Took a couple milder winters to recover, lol. I'm older now so beginning to lean heavily towards go big or go home winters. Endless cold, slop, and sub 8" snows the past two winters are not helping matters.

Sure there will be, in another 122 yrs

Potentially the biggest thing for us in 2-3 wks. Pretty amazed that I'm 70% AN to date on mere clippers with PAC moisture and some minor lake enhancement. Imagine if we actually got gulf moisture up here. Well, we did back on the 9th with a 50F rainer (SMDH). Despite being way ahead in snowfall to date, I checked my records and Jan '14 delivered 87% of what I have for the last 3 mos this season. And we were just hitting our stride across SMI 12 yrs ago. That's how wild that ride was.

off topic "banter" but well put. -19 at work this morning up in Grayling. I enjoy every facet of winter but the bottom of my list is extreme cold if it lasts more than one night, lol. As with extreme heat, the cumulative effects are real. My NMI native co-workers took a walk in those temps this morning. When I worked in Ft. Worth summer of 2010 it was 105 at lunch but them boys from India couldn't get out on the hot black parking lot quick enough for their walk-about. Some are ok with extremes, I am not one of them. Can't even imagine wintering in Alaska

Those that are skilled in pattern recognition (I am not) plus the repeating winter pattern(s) are keying-in on the period from approximately February 10th and the two weeks after as a recurrence of the first half of December. Aka that nice CO Low that hammered IA, IL and some surrounding states followed by sustained BN temp regime. This season has seriously mimicked last winter in many ways and last season I had my biggest storms on 2/8 and again 2/12-13. The 2/15-16 sytem for which I was under a WATCH for one shift, ended-up sliding SE and nailing TOR. That box has already been checked this winter with last weekend's major. I would not snooze on this upcoming period, tho p'sure the bulk stay south of mby yet again.

I had the option to take the day off with the bliz warning flying so I did. Just stayed inside and let it do its thing - didn't venture out to clear the snow until it was over basically (my M.O.). It was certainly a lot less than I expected. Was thinking Jan '99 but even bigger tbh. In the end I got 11" on top of the 6" otg. I remember clearing my walks and thinking that really, any time Marshall has 17" of snow otg that's not bad. Had a nice drift at my rear door due to the serious NE winds (hard to do in the old section of city scape where I was). I so wanted to experience everything immobilized like in '78 and still do, but with advances in the alert system and vehicles I doubt that's even possible anymore.

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