RogueWaves

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

It sure can be frustrating. The weakish clippers about to swing thru are prime example. Maybe an inch here while closer to Lake Michigan 3-6" on tap. A pair of upsides for me is that its way better than Canton, tho I did recieve a very solid farewell storm on 3-3-23, and I drive north to my office in Grayling so I get to see and experience some true snowbelt action. And while rare Harrison will sometimes jackpot more than others like Jan '24 when we scored a 10" storm followed by a 12" storm 3 days later. I really like a good snowpack which we do much better with here than SMI. Case in point I actually had my 2nd solid white Christmas. So far, this season is my best start since 2013.

More than mood flakes here today. Heaviest squall had visibility <500 feet at its height. So windy by the lake here plus the ice coating everything that not much snow was added on the level. There is however a newly formed drift out back I measured at 21". Yard decorations suffered wind damage but we did keep power. A few impressive gusts and even still getting some now occasionally. Police and fire dept's were non-stop figured wx related.

Who cares?

Bomb fuel:

Transformer arcing with power on/off here. More ice to the point sturdy bush limbs way lower to the ground. APX I sure hope we can lose the ice before this

DTX Frontal passage around or just after midnight, as deepening surfacelow tracks into Lake Huron tonight. Strong high res model consensus(RAP/3k NAM/ARW/ARW2/HRRR/Euro) with the low deepening to around 975MB by Monday morning near Georgian Bay. With at least 55-60 knots offlow at the 850 MB level, confidence is high in occasional windgusts of 45-55 MPH throughout Monday, with a surface trough passagearound mid day also likely providing a focus. Steepening low levellapse rates and inversion heights aoa 7 kft, along with much of thecloud depth/minimal cape in the dgz will be conducive to snowshowers/squalls, and isolated wind gusts to 60 MPH seem likely in theconvective rolls. With the soaked ground from today`s rainfall,weakened tree limbs from the ice storm, and long duration of strongwind gusts tonight through early tomorrow evening, have elected to gowith high wind warning for all of southeast Michigan. Expecting tosee a significant number of power outages. 6z Euro ensemble meteogramsindicating close to the half members supporting 55-60 MPH peak windgusts as well.The strong winds and snow squalls will make for tough travelconditions on Monday, despite just an inch or two of snowaccumulation as 700 MB cold pool (-20 C)/trough axis tracks through.Any leftover standing water will also freeze for the Monday morningcommute as temps fall into the upper 20s.

Afd said 32F here by noon - still holding at 30F so warming running a bit tardy. Super icy here coating everything. Cannot remember going into a storm with such even tho most or all should be melted later.

You're not under a Bliz Warning so no, not a full-fledge Blizzard. Your warning calls for 4+ inches of wind-driven snow with periods of blizzard-like conditions. Have fun with it.

On the southern fringe for this one. Added to my existing tree ice overnight. Still below freezing but expecting a roughly 12 hr window reaching into the upper 30's. If the ground glacier can hold on the 3" of wind-blown snow tomorrow could at least make for some potential drifting. Storm Warning just a half county NW of here. Overall amounts have trended up on the regional NWS forecast map (a little bit may be from weaking clipper Tue/Wed fwiw)

Wishing a road trip was in the cards tbh.

Check your posts from last Feb. I remember when one of the TOR crew said they had 26" depth you asking if that was the deepest he ever seen? Would be in the thread for the last event for which GRR had me under a Watch, only to cancel it by the next update when it became obv the storm wasn't going to get its act together in time for SWMI. Then even DTX said "miss SE stank" after AFD's were talking crippling bliz for the Thumb. It all ended up hitting TOR. Oh, and yeah another WWA from my office. Can I redeem 3 of them for Warning?? Going back two years almost, every county around Clare has gotten a Warning. Clare stands alone as the only county without one. On an island here, lol.

Technically NO, only 3 yrs since the pre-Christmas bomb. You know, the one that was forecast to bomb much earlier and actually be a legit bliz for The Mitt. Instead it finally got going good up in Canada and serious wind-driven +SN was confined to the usual LES Belts of both peninsulas. LP is way over-due for a wound-up powerhouse storm, to say nothing of a CAT-5 (20+) storm that delivers such to more than a couple county region like Jan '99. You can add another 1,095 days for SEMI/DTX since this map in '22

Thanks for confirming my original post on this. Big Dog's in the Midwest is 15"(+/-) but setting the bar at 12" for DTW is much more realistic. DTX/White Lake/M-59 on north has held its own over the decades with the rest of the MW neighborhood. South of that gets plenty of snowstorms as you've noted, but over history the BD's are much less frequent for that region. As I've said before and you know, I am as much a fan of getting and maintaining a decent snowpack as I am of the larger storms. So far since my relocation here, I've gotten mostly the first and not much of the second. The impending storm is another fine example of that. I realize Harrison is not BD haven, but the way powerhouse storms have been shirking the LP of MIchigan the past 6 winters is getting really annoying. Toronto gets back-2-back BD's and now Yooperland about to do the same. Nothing is taking the sweet-spot track for us - nothing.

Because you've already gotten a big storm. DTW/TOL haven't.