RogueWaves

2 minutes ago, SolidIcewx said:

Knowing our luck we will get sleet first week of may. I’ll take winter thru March but after that bring in the warmth

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.

1 minute ago, SolidIcewx said:

It would not surprise me to see this on the upper Mississippi River basis and all the local rivers that feed into it. The snowpack is there and still a month or more of snow. If we end up having a wet stormy spring it definitely concerns me for major flooding. Ground is getting more saturated by the day. Back in 2019 I went to Winfield MO to volunteer and sandbag because I have family not far from there. Crazy how powerful that river is and seeing the water lines in Alton IL of the 93 flood and seeing the 2019 one only a couple feet away was chilling. I hope for a gradual warm up into spring 

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.

4 minutes ago, SolidIcewx said:

Can see the next band about to rotate thru here soon

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

2 hours ago, Powerball said:

 

I see they did completely dismiss that ridiculous lowball report out of GP...

I came in yesterday evening (will be here for 1 month), and I'm surprised just about all the snow from that system is gone. Full leaf out is underway back in Dallas, and the buds/leaves slowly but gradually got fewer & fewer the further NE I got. Once I got north of Dayton, everything was still dead.

Unfortunately, I left the day it got up to 88*F down there.

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.

On 3/9/2023 at 7:24 PM, Stebo said:

DAB

On 3/11/2023 at 7:57 PM, Stebo said:

Still DAB

Surprise!

On 3/11/2023 at 9:48 AM, michsnowfreak said:

Just curious. Did you measure, or are you going by what was on the DTX storm summary? The reason I ask is because I know the person who called in the 2.5" for Canton (Aaron, he posts here sometimes) and that report was from like 7am. His final total was 4.2". It's always annoying when they use reports from midstorm in the final summary. @AWMT30

@AWMT30

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"

3 hours ago, roardog said:

His Morch calls are in trouble deeper than the snow in his yard.

JB > Cromartie

6 hours ago, Powerball said:

Heavy Snow Warning shared the same snowfall criteria as a Winter Storm Warning, except Winter Storm Warning just had a wind, wind chill and/or ice criteria to it.

Same goes for the Snow Advisory and Winter Weather Advisory...

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. 

2 hours ago, Frog Town said:

Night snow fall is making the difference.  

Finally catching that break. I'll take it

2 hours ago, Harry said:

Looks like a general 4-7 across this area. 

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. 

11 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

Looks like some heavy snow moved through 1-2am overnight. Woke up to a fresh 1.4". March so far is 7.1", season to date 28.7". DTW also got 1.4", so 7.8" in March and 29.0" season to date.

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

27 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

I personally wouldn't call it the best stretch. I'd probably call the last week of Jan to first week of Feb the best stretch, followed by Christmas week. But both the Feb 22 ice storm and Mar 3 snowstorm were very fun storms.

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. 

No! More! Damage storms pls. I'm good for a while

13 hours ago, Powerball said:

As of this morning, over 200K people were without power across the Detroit area. No doubt, really bad luck for those who had just got their power back on following the Ice Storm to only lose it again so quickly.

And apparently, there were still 9K people without power from the Ice Storm when this storm commenced.

I'm guessing RogueWaves is also still in the dark given his absence since last night.

DARK (k)NIGHT here alive and well living a pseudo 19th century lifestyle, lol

59 minutes ago, Stevo6899 said:

In a fairly short period of time too. 5-midnight. Often it takes 12+ hours to get 6-12. Another thing is the clearing after a snowstorm. We can go weeks without seeing the sun, but its amazing how often there's clear skies the next morning after a storm.

Almost a given we get a nice sunny day after a S stream SW hits and departs. Awesome storm, fun to see cars stuck on snowy roads in the metro. Thanks to snow actually accumulating on the pavement this time, plow banks and piles are legit. Only minor negative is I'm still one of these stats:

Still in the dark. DTE site did not have good news. They have yet to assess the cause and planned recovery time. Peeked outside and saw a blue green flash. Transformer? Idk, but phone batt is not going to last too long.

1 hour ago, Powerball said:

Gotta say, I am jealous, even if there may not be big dog snow totals.

Hold that jealousy. Eating a cold dinner by candlelight here in Canton. Starting to get chilly. Entire complex went dark an hour ago. Rumbles continue. Drive home about 5:30 was a crawl.

Because I was..

1) Done with this lame-ass winter

2) Wrote this off 2 days ago

3) Promised to eat my words if it came full circle for DTW

OFC!

51 minutes ago, Stebo said:

Bit flatter of a track too, and definitely south and east a bit.

I'm ok with flat (storms)

15 minutes ago, Stebo said:

So the GFS/Nam12/RDPS all are unchanged from 18z but the GFS/RDPS are a snowstorms here and the NAM12 is an ice storm. ICON moved south to match the GFS/RDPS.

About 24 hrs ago I wrote this off saying it wouldn't come full-circle for DTW. Might have words to eat if this keeps up.

56 minutes ago, WestMichigan said:

Not an awful track for SW Michigan but not great for the Detroit crew. 

Wrote this off as a rainer yesterday for DTW. WPC keeping us in the heavy "something" zone.