RogueWaves

Great January day! (smh) First March afternoon high below freezing. First LES (0.2) since 1/27. Total up to 32.9" for here and that bumps my seasonal LES to an even 4.5" (15.6% of my total). I'm ok if we bust out some warmth tbh. Single digit WC's this time of year suck!

For those tracking: 000 NWUS53 KGRR 191116 LSRGRR PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 716 AM EDT SUN MAR 19 2023 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0700 AM SNOW EAST GRAND RAPIDS 42.95N 85.61W 03/19/2023 M4.5 INCH KENT MI CO-OP OBSERVER APPROXIMATELY A 30 HOUR TOTAL. SNOW CONTAINED 0.23 INCHES WATER. SNOW SEASON TOTAL NOW 114.1 INCHES.

I get all that and precision suffers ofc. APX finds a way to make it happen. Perhaps they should share their secret with the two SMI offices. I like maps, lol. In your opinion, how far off are they on avg? 6" in a season, or even more in certain regions? And you hint that it is almost always a lower amount of snow. I'd be more concerned if totals were artificially inflated.

Better than nothing imho. Unless you have another resource for better maps?

The warm RN and 50's took half a month, but finally came along. Nuked "most" of the non-plow piles around here, but surprisingly, north facing slopes (M-14) and shaded places like wooded areas have a 2-3" cover hanging tough. That was some real-deal cement we got 3 headlines ago. Would take a storm like that any chance I could (sans the power outage ofc).

That'd be a double DAB for me, lol

"DAB" for me is <1/2". But tbh, @A-L-E-K just uses the term w/o a threshold.

If referring to @Hoosier yeah. Got banned. All the disco wrt can be seen in the banter thread over the past couple weeks.

Well, thread title was for the weekend and DTW scored a bit more than DAB (depending on your definition ofc) yesterday morning.

First half of March for me, so 2 more days. Have zero use for April snows, but they're not as uncommon as I wish they were. I just hope we don't see flakes all month long.

All depends on the spring. If it flips hard - trouble. 2014 presented historic SPWE across SMI and we had a slow transition into the warm season and zero hydro issues. Contrast that with 2018's hard flip with heavy rains just as we peaked in depth and that was a record flood along the Kzoo river basin.

Dreamscape award. I'm with @SchaumburgStormer let's move on already..

They did, lol. P-sure the Canton report's legit tho. You can see there were similar totals not too far north of here and I believe it extended further S to this region as well.

Surprise!

No, I couldn't measure since I am at work about 11 hrs a day. This snow was mostly gone by evening. No signs of plowing on our streets, just a little sidewalk clearing. IF we actually got 4-5" then it was the fastest melt-off of that amount in history, lol. (DTW for example had 4" depth reported Sat morning). Drove to work in on/off moderate rates with about an inch down. Left my wipers up to make clearing the windshield easier after work (like normally on a snowfall day). Wasn't a flake to be found on my car when I got to it. I was embarrassed I left them up tbh. What a joke event - total opposite of the week prior when the most heavily pre-salted roads and parking lots had tons of snow that needed plowing despite temps never really getting properly below freezing. Impressive to see piles, and even some area plow banks still making it look a lot more like winter here despite 45 and 50F almost every day.

Sigh. Back to the lame game here. Watched DTX's radar loop several times. Downriver gets a boost via Lk Erie, and W/NW of here gets a little boost via elevation & temps . Meanwhile I get 2.5"

JB > Cromartie

The last Heavy Snow Warning I can remember was in Dec '05 when 8-10" fell. Apparently the lack of wind kept it from being a warning.

Finally catching that break. I'll take it

Will be waiting a long time to see anything over here rivaling last Friday's intensity. Amazing how much snow we've actually scored with so few days below freezing all winter including zero below freezing in March, which is now way above normal snowfall for the month and isn't done.

8.2" here on the month - #winning! (was a splendid wint-spring morning)

WPC/CPC says hello to da Mitt Slowly trying to erode that brown stain in SEMI with the white stuff, lol

While snow cover lasted after 1/25, this week's storm was by far the best of the season. That was my main point. Snow rates were very similar to two other events in the last notoriously warm winter 11/29/11 in Marshall, and 3/3/12 in NWMI. I will take a good grinder storm any day, but the intense storms are always exciting.

here we go...again

@michsnowfreak Feeling like I owe you an apology. More legit winter happened. In fact, the BEST of this winter happened, lol. Stranger things have happened, I just can't remember when.