December 28th - 29th Blizzard

[Torchageddon]

Got down to 985mb here although that might be my wx station tripping as it hasn't budged from 987 for 5+ hr. Woke up to loud winds, snow started at 7:40 and every min got worse as the intense LES is starting to smother all of the Huron shoreline! I'm already getting some blowing snow after the glacier with nada 45 mins ago. SN+, hope to see Blizz conditions at some point. Oddly the winds aren't as strong as 5am..yet. My dendrites are also choice so I believe in the 8" forecast.

[OrdIowPitMsp]

MSP recorded 5.8” of snow yesterday. Not sure how much if any was recorded after midnight to add to the final total. Roads are a sheet of ice this morning.

 

[Baum]

Crappy way to run a Holiday torch.

[Chicago WX]

Herscher CoCoRaHS pretty much sums it up in their note this morning. They're a terrible snow measurer based off past history, but this location is pretty rural and they were reporting 1/16 visibility around 7:45 am. Probably could have used a WWA considering conditions were deplorable this morning. It doesn't take much snow with these winds. I have 6"+ drifts in my backyard. Still snowing here and a bit breezy...

Swapped gauges at 5:10 pm, had 0.84 inch of rain at that time. Now just a trace of snow in gauge but probably not representative due to high winds gusting 38-49 MPH (33-43 KT) all night, gusting 41 MPH (36 KT) currently at KIKK AWOS. I would guess about 2 inches of new snow/snowpack depth with lots of drifting and blowing. Visibility 291347Z 1/16SM SN BLSN  

[michsnowfreak]

6 hours ago, mimillman said:

I’ll be up there in mid Feb for snowmobiling as well 

Nice! Im staying in Newberry Feb 18-21 but will be going to different areas.

[michsnowfreak]

14 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

DTW was 43 at 6pm and 57 at 7pm

DTW peaked at 61F at 9pm. Temp fell from 59F at midnight to 23F at 8am. Wind chills are currently around 0F with snow squalls approaching.

[Chinook]

snow squall warnings near Detroit

[hawkeye_wx]

My gauge collected 0.10" of melted snow, but I was only able to measure about 0.8" of snow in the grass.

[SouthOaklandCtyWX]

Coming down pretty good in Royal Oak, ground has whitened up in the last 20 minutes. 

[Chinook]

Toledo had a high 61 (low 33 yesterday morning) with various levels of rain, and heavy fog. No lightning/thunder later in the evening. Then with the temperature dropping, Toledo has maxed out at 50 knot (58mph) peak winds. Wind chill was briefly 0 when the temp was 18 and the wind was 30mph. 0.52", and also measured values up to 0.60" and 0.70" on CoCoRAHS. A few days back, the WPC/NWS estimation was 1.6" but a lot of that shifted to Detroit. (Oakland County got that much)

[Brian D]

1.0" of snow IMBY with winds up to 40 mph last night. They're kicking back up this morning to 35 mph. Around my area just 1-2" of snow. Nice hit from S MN into the UP MI. 

[mnchaserguy]

People reporting 6-7” nearby. Hard to know exactly with all the blowing and drifting. Didn’t quite live up to the hype but still a decent storm.


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[michsnowfreak]

Snowin and blowing away. Winter quickly has returned. 

[Snowstorms]

Came back to Toronto for the holidays. We got 4" back on the 26th, so close enough for a white christmas  YYZ at 23.1" for the season. 

Cold and windy today with on and off snow squalls. Had some melting with the rain last night, but still got a decent 2-3" of cement on the ground. 

Merry Christmas everyone!