December 2025 General Discussion

[michsnowfreak]

22 minutes ago, Harry Perry said:

You have snowpack? 

My yard right now

 

I must point out the irony that today is the first official day of winter and the 7am snow depth has fallen to 0 at DTW for the first time since 7am November 29.

[OrdIowPitMsp]

4 hours ago, Harry Perry said:

You have snowpack? 

My yard right now

 

3”-4” of hard glacier with some dust on top. Here’s the front and backyard view right around sunset.

[WestMichigan]

With Friday's 1.7" of snow, GRR has passed 1905-1906 ending any talk of futility before winter officially started.  While this last week has been a dud it has been a pretty good start to winter so far and looking forward to hopefully much more snow to come this winter.

[Brian D]

Christmas Day eve into Friday may be a wet snow, icy system for N MN - N WI (& UP MI). Looks like I did a decent job with the Holiday forecast in sniffing out the pattern.

[hawkeye_wx]

Models continue to fade the Christimas warmth.  A few days ago, the GFS and Euro had low 60s up to Cedar Rapids.  Now, both are down to low 40s, and the 60s are way down in Missouri.  Friday is looking much cooler, too.

[cyclone77]

We're gonna finish 2025 with about 30.5" of precip.  About 5 inches down for the year.

[michsnowfreak]

5 hours ago, WestMichigan said:

With Friday's 1.7" of snow, GRR has passed 1905-1906 ending any talk of futility before winter officially started.  While this last week has been a dud it has been a pretty good start to winter so far and looking forward to hopefully much more snow to come this winter.

DTW is at 12.9" which an exact tie for their 1936-37 futility mark. The average last snowfall is nearly 4 months away. 

[michsnowfreak]

After having 60s advertised for over a week either Christmas day or the day after, now we may not hit 40 lol.

[Harry Perry]

22 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

I must point out the irony that today is the first official day of winter and the 7am snow depth has fallen to 0 at DTW for the first time since 7am November 29.

If we didn't have bad luck… you know the saying lol. 
 

I found it interesting that every other Christmas Day since ~2018 has been 50°+ over here per a local met. If I get some time later I’ll check that out. 

[buckeye]

2 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

After having 60s advertised for over a week either Christmas day or the day after, now we may not hit 40 lol.

unless it's snowing or there is an existing snow pack to preserve for Christmas day, the higher the temp the better.   Who the heck would like 30 or 40s and brown over 60's?   

[michsnowfreak]

26 minutes ago, buckeye said:

unless it's snowing or there is an existing snow pack to preserve for Christmas day, the higher the temp the better.   Who the heck would like 30 or 40s and brown over 60's?   

I actually didn't say I preferred it, you assumed that..it was noteworthy because the models suddenly chopped 20° off our highs overnight. But of course, your assumption was correct.

The untimely melting of the snow makes for a bare Christmas, but the ground is frozen and lakes covered in ice and January and February are big winter rec months in Michigan...so why on earth would I want 60 over 40?

[Stevo6899]

2 hours ago, buckeye said:

unless it's snowing or there is an existing snow pack to preserve for Christmas day, the higher the temp the better.   Who the heck would like 30 or 40s and brown over 60's?   

Always been my thought process. But some still enjoy useless cold and 4 hours to get an inch events over 60s in the winter.

[IWXwx]

6 hours ago, Harry Perry said:

If we didn't have bad luck… you know the saying lol. 
 

I found it interesting that every other Christmas Day since ~2018 has been 50°+ over here per a local met. If I get some time later I’ll check that out. .

Matt Leach (WxMatt21 here) posted this on his Channel 21 Facebook a couple of days ago.  It's quite an interesting pattern for Christmas temps in  Fort Wayne. That 58 forecast has been dropped several degrees now as the warm front looks to get hung up father south than originally anticipated

[Torchageddon]

4 hours ago, IWXwx said:

Matt Leach (WxMatt21 here) posted this on his Channel 21 Facebook a couple of days ago.  It's quite an interesting pattern for Christmas temps in  Fort Wayne. That 58 forecast has been dropped several degrees now as the warm front looks to get hung up father south than originally anticipated

Its crazy enough it was 59 like that 3 in-and-outs, a 4th would be a hair raiser.

I'm getting the largest flakes of the season, some 2.5" in size but I wasn't out in it. Its lasting too, 1 hr of large but 10 mins of the giants. I'm just above freezing and near the rain line.

[Powerball]

#GodBlessTheSunbelt

 

[Brian D]

3 hours ago, Powerball said:

#GodBlessTheSunbelt

 

Did my boot camp in 1987 in Ft Sill, OK in the middle of summer. That was nasty! Then another 2 months there for more training in Jan-Feb 1990. Wild wx there with highs in the 80's down to 10's after a blue norther, and 6" of slush snow. And in 1990 spent 2 months (Oct-Nov) over in Albuquerque helping with some testing at Kirkland AFB. Never seen so many tumbleweeds, and absolutely dry wx for weeks. 10% humidity many days. One of the guys had a friend over in Dallas, so we spent Thanksgiving with him, and his family. Was glad to have experienced a different part of our country that is so much different than up N. 

[Stevo6899]

4 hours ago, Powerball said:

#GodBlessTheSunbelt

 

Looks similar to fort myers. Heading south tomorrow until March 1st. Have you had any winter events down there yet this winter?

[Powerball]

20 minutes ago, Stevo6899 said:

Looks similar to fort myers. Heading south tomorrow until March 1st. Have you had any winter events down there yet this winter?

No winter events (in fact, it's been an unusually dry month), although the month did start off well below average temp-wise.