RogueWaves

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.

Weird how a winter's pattern will get stuck on instant replay. I cannot break out of the pixie dust flakes and haven't seen what you've posted twice recently in so many years I don't even remember when. 11-29-11 were good sized flakes and I'd be willing to bet it has been that long.

Model mayhem at d6 - sounds rather normal tbh

Looking forward to Monday's heavier wet snow (my favorite). With the impending torch it'd go a long way towards keeping my 39-day snow cover streak alive. Right now we have about 5" depth with the glacier underneath the high ratio stuff since last Monday's storm. Regardless, looking at a solid plowable event and it should look really nice around here by Monday's drive home. Tues and beyond will do what it pleases.

Saw your long post in the other thread. Were you in S. Bend then for this storm? Did you see the IDOT plow dash-cam footage on WSBT? Iirc, they were on the US31 bypass as you head north towards the Mich state line. It was insane - never seen an Xway looking like that! Sadly for me, I was NOT at home on the NW side but instead visiting fam up in The Thumb of MI were the storm really fizzled down to just a run of the mill 8" without any winds (lame). Worked in Buchanan then and they had 24" easy. Coming into S. Bend the evening of the 3rd (or 4th??) you could only get on 94 with police escort. And all the county roads we'd normally take were impassable to any regular 2-wheel drive vehicles. Was a lot of work digging into our place 18" on the driveway and a 40" drift at the back door. Great memories.

You talkin Detroit proper (city of) and/or DTW or just the Metro. Metro had the nice 8-12" pounding 3-3-23. Saw SUV's stuck - something I never expected in Canton.

In either of (3) current and former backyards (vs where I actually experienced it in SEMI). Grand Traverse Cnty: 23" (Depth massive!) Marshall in SWMI: 22" (27" Depth) Harrison (present): 20" (30" Depth) Edit - should've included my Michiana address in S. Bend where they really topped all 3 other addresses!

Never concerned - still going up here.

They are nice for keeping a fresh look between dogs of all sizes. Problem is there's been way too many of them vs traditional snowstorms of any size. Personally, I'd like more of these to ring in the new year:

The only thing wrong with this Nina pattern is his latitude. I'm nearly 50% AN to date on snow fall. I wouldn't complain if it wants to get even better, but nothing wrong here so far.

I just had Cold And Wet this December - that's a welcomed change.

Clipper on the 6th still has my attention. Then a rainer, and then maybe something better.

Estimating 2.5" here from last evening. 17.1" for the month is 124% average and my second straight AN December. Ended up being an active/stormy holiday season after all - managed to keep power - zero complaints.

You're experiencing something similar to my own back in the mid-90's and as much as do like winter it can get to ya and it got to me. Didn't you get nearly 200" last season? I had a back-to-back 200+ seasons. And when I moved up to Traverse in Sept 1990 the natives told me how a lot of SEMI folks had went running back downstate after the winters of 85 & 86.

And by the next day, the roads are white from excess salt, not snow and remain that way until either the next duster or a rainer moves through - yup D-town