Weak sauce.

Radar is too broken up. I don't think we'll even see 3 inches total... I don't see warning criteria snow anywhere in Michigan outside of lake enhanced communities.

23 minutes ago, buckeye said:

Clearly you haven't been keeping up with the dramatic model turn around in the last 24 hours.  Next week the pattern change begins .    We're on the threshold of a '78 Jan/Feb esque pattern realizing.   Don't sell that sled!!!  Grease it up!

Right....

Sled and trailer for sale. Game over on this one.

20 minutes ago, buckeye said:

anyone who has a wxbell subscription needs to watch JB's atmospheric avenger vid from this morning.   He's lost his mind, laughing throughout the entire vid while babbling about how every indice is going exactly as he forecasted except the weather isn't cooperating.    He even said he's not going to use the delayed not denied excuse.   If the pattern hasn't changed by the 20th his forecast will have been garbage and he doens't care what happens after that.   

Seriously....straight-jacket worthy stuff 

He busts almost nonstop. You can't predict weather more than 10 days out.

Snowmobiled during this storm in Cheboygan Michigan. Got snowed in and had to call into work the next morning.

15 minutes ago, josh_4184 said:

Im at about 10" on the ground, might eek out another 1" tonight not a bad storm for the way this season has gone. The next couple weeks looks like were right back in the crapper again. 

Probably enough to trail ride for tomorrow?

Any reports from Northern Michigan?

Unless it has staying potential, I'll pass on this one locally. Just take this storm to the northwoods. I'll manage with no snow all winter in SE Michigan.

This might be the first December in my life that I have only recorded a trace of snow. Funny thing, temps haven't really been that warm.

I'm on high alert for the 28th system.

Hotels reserved (cancellation pending).

23 hours ago, LansingWeather said:

Yeah same here, my wife and I recently moved to Puerto Rico but I'd rather live in Michigan during the winter lol. I'm not sure why, but I love the snow and cold!

Should change your name to PR Weather. I don't think we have anyone from PR on this site giving weather reports.

My area is actually running near normal on the month.

Lansing is at +0.3 right now..... I'm guessing we finish up no worse than +1 to +1.5.

This has just not been a pattern for snow.

This is 2011-2012 reincarnated. Actually, we are worse shape when you look at Canada.

On 12/18/2018 at 3:19 PM, Snowless in Carrollton said:

Is it just me or is MI a little more scenic than IN ? Seems like there are way more trees in MI !

Indiana is originally a part of the prairie. Michigan has a bit of original prairie in the south center part of the state, but that's mostly farmland now

Just go another 75 miles north and it turns into a mixed conifer transitional foliage "Northwoods".

1 hour ago, slow poke said:

This will be the first time since 1997 that we won’t be up north between Christmas and New Years, in 97 we didn’t go up because of the weather, this year it’s because we’re going to Florida. When we booked the trip back in May I wasn’t really happy because I thought we would be missing out on a week of snowmobiling, now it’s looking like we picked a good year to go down there. A group of us are heading to WY snowmobiling for a week in early Janurary, hopefully the cold and some snow will kick in by the time we get back from out there because it’s not looking to good between now and January. Probably should have kept our razor, at least we could have been out riding some and stayed warm when’s there’s no snow. I did put 25 miles on my TW 200 yesterday though on the back roads around home. Felt like a early spring day.

I told the guys, December is toast. 100%.

There might be no serious trail riding until mid Jaunary at this rate. 6 weeks of the season in the trashcan.

This is 2011-2012. But worse.

Not as warm, but just as useless.

5 hours ago, josh_4184 said:

Man you sure are not kidding, what a dumpster fire run that was, might not even have a white X-Mas for my area which is pretty much unheard off. 

That torch on the 28th will wipe out everything but the deepest snow in the UP. Newberry will have grass on Jan 1st.

Worst snowmobile season ever.

I'm already looking into flying out to Colorado and renting mountain sleds.

On a positive note... the heavily climate change biased CFS now has January below normal.

It's looking like another 2011-2012 might be in the works. 

1 hour ago, weatherbo said:

 What a beautiful young woman. Very sad to imagine someone suffering so bad inside that that’s seen as the only solution. 

I guess you just never know. She looked to have a lot going for her.

A real meteorologist as well.

1 hour ago, michsnowfreak said:

I would agreed.  I generally think of Ohio as the North and Kentucky as the South

Same.

Once I cross the bridge into Kentucky, I'm in the south.

Not really a complaint or banter.... but.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/12/13/fox-2-detroits-starr-dead-co-worker-says/2298426002/

Fox 2 Detroit's Jessica Starr has died, station says

Suicide.

17 hours ago, RogueWaves said:

Hoping to double my month-to-date snow total with tomorrow's wave. I need 0.8"

..wish me luck

The snow season virtually ended when we hit Dec 1st.

5 hours ago, Michigander said:

Everyone and EVERY FORECAST except CPC?

The CFS defaults to above normal to account for climate change. If the CFS was right, we would never have a below normal month for the rest of our natural lives.

On 12/11/2018 at 10:16 AM, michsnowfreak said:

They have always been bad but this year is an absolute sh*t show with them defaulting to warm in cold patterns.

Feb 2015 was above normal on the CFS until the month was right on the doorstep.

8 minutes ago, hlcater said:

Yea that advertised pattern change can’t come soon enough. Out here in IA, I can’t remember the last time the first half of December was any good. Seem to always find our way into a bad pattern.

Lately the 20th to the 27th has sucked.