RogueWaves

Good outbreaks of CAW seem to last only about 6 wks max. It is the rare events like the Jan '85 flip that may exceed that. Less than 6 wks ofc happens way more often.

Best vid I've seen on The Mitt's darkest day of severe wx:

Does anyone know how much ash that large eruption in the Pacific generated?

Yep, that's why I'm hoping for another 81-82

1st pic is October-December 11th

Massive. Over-performing for you no doubt. Models are all over the place for here and the trend acknowledged by the pros is even more lame than it looked a couple days ago. The trend we do have on our side is rain makers over-performing here all summer. Don't need the moisture like y'all tho, so I'm fine and glad some of you guys are finally getting hit.

Watched the parade back then too. "This morning I got up and shoveled 4 inches of partly cloudy" -Sonny Elliot

The pre-20th winter grinch was 11-11-19. Didn't even get a Warning (Thx GRR). 19-20 ended up being a dumpster fire

Welcome (back). What Stebo said is fact tho. GFS already spitting maps that look like winter, lol

I knew of Mal Sillars. Perhaps from visiting relatives in the Detroit burbs I may have seen him once or twice. Fred McMurray in Flint was decent. Heard Sonny Elliott a lot since my dad only listened to WJR while driving even after moving out of Detroit in the 50s.

I first caught Tom via cable 42 years ago. He was so far above any TV Met I had seen up to that point. As if I'd only seen Pee Wee baseball and then somebody took me to a Major League playoff game. Glad for those Chicagoans pre-www that had Tom as their local guy.

Haha, looks just like my 1st sled

Live in a ground floor apt with leaky windows, a slider door and two outside walls facing N and W. Only gotten down to 68F and no furnace kicking on yet (set to 67F). This evening almost perfect early autumn jacket wx

That winter I had nothing approaching that for snow cover. To get an image like that would've required deploying some kind of painting technique.

Trivia. Quick - what's the last winter you were NOT disappointed?

Especially right on the heels of 81-82 which rocked in all 3 categories - Snow/Snow cover/temps. I'd taken the year off between HS and college to get more skiing time, and had bought a snowmobile as well. Thought I'd do a lot of both before locking-down serious as I was a year younger than most in my grade. Well, what a waste of time that plan turned out to be. TWC was a new novelty on cable back then and I remember how pissed I was watching Denver getting buried by the Christmas blizzard while we looked out at snowless and brown ground. I was in eastern Genesee Cnty in Davison btw

Yeah, that spring equinox storm was a legit 10" in Genesee Cnty (NE part). Saved a complete dumpster fire winter. Chucked a bone for sure.

Wowza at the minimum lists across. the. board. 4 of 5 top snowcover winters during my lifetime. Never knew about 47-48 tbh. My folks had their 1st house on Panama St. in Warren then and I don't remember them ever mentioning a "harsh winter" before moving north to Genesee Cnty. Surprised 1981-82 didn't make the list for frequent snowfalls. It was my first winter driving and it seemed to snow every other day where I was near KFNT.

Oh, we had flooding here, the small stream that runs right through my complex was 6X it's normal width and way over it's banks. Parking lots were small ponds, but the worst was just a mile or so SW of mby. I feel fortunate to have not personally been ill-affected. Lost power in the March snowstorm which was no fun at all. The minor twister(s) were also about 2-3 miles SW of here. Were they near your place at all?

Back in 11-12, I wasn't taking daily snow fall measurements, just seasonal totals. I had 47.2" surprisingly enough. Caught the jack-zone with the 11-29-11 storm, and January was actually decent (check KBTL to confirm). My personal string is due to Marshall being in a dead zone 3 winters ago, then I moved to Canton and found another screw zone here the past two winters. To be clear I consider 2019-20 to be an AVG season. Comfortably within the +/-5% window I personally use for that ranking. Not sure what exactly the official record uses for determinations? Last 4 winters for mby: amt/avg/depart. 2022-23: 33.5"/45"/-9.5" 2021-22: 35.6"/45"/-9.4" 2020-21: 36.2"/49.7"/-13.5" 2019-20: 48.0"/49.7"/-1.7"

They have not. That's for mby in two different locales.

/\ I'm calling for SEWI to roast. I mean literally it's going to catch fire and burn-up completely at this rate! Any sane person would get the h*ll out of Dodge!

Uggh! and here I thought 15 days would be horrid, thus why I said "pls say snowfall". That's less than 2 wks of the entire 6 month "window". May we never go through that part of the larger cycle. What is that, like equal to the average for places in TN?

Looking like we in The Mitt will escape formal frost headlines by a slim margin. Would've been great for the prime color period but not happening despite the CPC's outlook calling for such.