RogueWaves

@michsnowfreak I did better with the Nov storm but you've now gotten 360% of my Dec total. It's all relative, lol. Certainly right there with you regarding life in the shadow of IA/IL/WI hot zone. Other than Dec '74 Detroit is not known as huge front end winter paradise. More so the back half. Your F/M/A avg's are better than I had in Marshall.

After watching the last two systems miss SW I'm hoping to at least catch you IL crew this week.

Where did CAD go all of a sudden?

Scoring today:

And not 300+ hours away, lol

Gonna suck going back to regularly scheduled Decembers

Not remembering a November storm fitting that description from 19 yrs in Calhoun Cnty, when was that?

Midnight 1st measure was 3.8" up here. Good stuff didn't start til sometime late evening.

Is this winter storm Brutus?

Dust in the wind for 3 hrs has whitened everything. Streets, rooftops, and lake ice.

I need it north and so far it should be just right. 9" in my text is a nice increase from where this started.

Welcome to that 70's show

I may be one of the few hoping to whiten the ground from the first storm. Backside Wed evening overnight to Thanksgiving morning "may" bring a streamer burst or two if things line-up just right. NCEP says I have a chance

Absolutely they've looked/been worse but last year was cold and slightly AN snow for my area including a solid white Christmas but Dec climo is much stronger here as well. Second morning in the mid-teens and large ponds held ice all day despite ample sun. Matter of time now and seeing if a decent system can come together to kick-start the December party.

Worked in Ft. Worth back in May of 2010 and there were photos in the Starbucks of full-sized snowmen they had made during the Dec '09 storm fwiw

Chicago is the new Buffalo!

So you experienced MP's last Big Dog in Feb '08?

Looking less snoozy up here and globals even throwing out random snow risks during this period. N stream so nothing heavy but at least it will look and feel more the season.

Had a vivid rainbow right after +RN squall at 44 degs here. Qpf over-performing as well

Euro weakest sauce at 989 mb for Sunday

Might be something this weekend - finally?

More BS backwards spring on deck here tomorrow

1988 with its 113F heat index in Flint area was for me the worst because I had zero A/C. Not at home (a mobile tin can at the time no less) not at work (top floor of an old building) and not working in the used car I was driving. 1995 was a brief deal since I was in NMI then. The afternoon of the derecho it did hit 100F in Traverse right before, then dropped to a chilly 59F right after. 2012 was rough but I had A/C home/office/car so I faired way better than my lawn which basically half of it was gone afterwards. G-maps street scene used to be from that summer and my front lawn looked horrendous.

Came into Harrison last evening to full snow cover and fog. Looked like back in December. I'm not sure weeks of this backwards spring crap is worth it for the handful of perfect low-humidity, sunny and mid-70s days that we get up here between Independence and Labor day. Last year was the earliest, warmest, and longest warm season on record for NMI. It was quite fantastic and nothing like my memories living up here back in 90-97. Warm seasons in SEMI seemed to last forever by comparison. Endless. I figured 7 months were "warm season" (Apr-Oct) downstate. Not always summer hot, but mostly mild with little in the way of serious snow threats. I cannot wait for a new season. Btw, what's this thing called "green-up" I see people posting about? My 22 yrs living down along the 94 corridor including 2012 had me dreading July/Aug. If you had to do anything outside you were a ball of sweat inside 10 mins. 2007 had some nasty heat too. I'm also a Michigander native who spent a rather hot summer of 2010 living and working in Ft Worth. I did have working A/C (car, work office, and apt). Limited most of my outside fun to after dark and dressed minimally. It was like being on vacation except my dark blue ride could be so hot by lunch time you'd risk burning your fingers if you weren't careful. That heat was a dry heat summer with prevailing winds off of the deserts of N Mexico. Dry heat = more bearable. Was told they do get humid summers when winds are mostly off the Gulf. Love my 4 seasons but this time of year, when winter is trying to end, but spring has yet to really take hold is the worst 4-6 weeks up this way. That part hasn't changed LOL