RogueWaves

Yes. An article cited a storm that had a 120 mph wind increase in 24 hrs.

Move off the beach

31F this morning, monkey off back, rolling on the ground kicking and screaming

@michsnowfreak Great photos as always! I have a few nice color shots that look great on my phone (yeah cell phone cam - I know), but look like dull crap when I post them. Wish I knew why?

Cuz bored waiting for more active wx I guess. Doesn't impact yby, KTOL unchanged anyway. Couldn't help but notice IN and it's mismatch across state line with OH. As for MI changing, now IWX will be issuing warnings that will dead-end at the MI state line (at least in theory & knowing GRR). And how do the LES counties of NWIN not get the same treatment as in MI? For that matter, could be said of IL & WI as well. Guessing the only way IL & IN beat MI on its state record 24 hr snowfall was due to some obscure LES events lost to time (SMH).

Summer flowers including Petunias were going strong here on the edge of the UHI in NW Wayne Cnty. I'm sure once you get N or W of here that changes quickly as you have seen up in Fenton area. DTW hit 38F and I'm hoping clouds can cooperate for a solid 32F Monday morning to get that monkey off our back.

I've seen the ground totally white under sugar maples in full red (Oct 2013). This year it's full colors blazing while summer flowers are still untouched by any true cold. Colors today across SMI are stunning despite no really frosty mornings yet. Vibrant colors were expected since we had a moist summer here.

Conversely, he could be forecasted 12+ and not even reach 6.9". If only the headlines meant a guaranteed total, lol

Yes, strangely it had slightly AN plowable events and managed to reach within 3% of a normal seasonal total. But snow cover was a negative number, and Christmas at 57F and the entire holiday week 50s-60F blew chunks. I'd call it the mildest winter of my life that still managed avg snow, lol. If I did what many here do (try to grade a winter) I would have to admit that snow cover/retention is heavily weighted in my scoring and extended deep snow pack even more my thing would bump a grade.

Translation - it sucked.

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.