January 2026 General Discussion

[RogueWaves]

23 hours ago, RogueWaves said:

Pouring here - prolly have flood puddles everywhere by morning if this keeps up. 44th straight day of snow cover - streak may be ending. 

50F and .67" of warm-ish rain made for a bunch of parking lot puddles. BUT! Thx to frozen ground and night time temp spike we only lost half the 5-6" glacier leaving us with 2-3" otg heading into tomorrow's odd system. Can I get a headline upgrade? APX says its on the table.

 

[RogueWaves]

After the hype, I was kinda hoping this winter could go BIG with real-deal storms and deep snow pack. AN for snow but its come in mostly bite-sized chunks similar to last winter here. Glancing back at my daily data for 2013-14 (which just happened to be the season I started keeping such) and in that incredible winter I had SEVEN warned storms (Marshall's not in the LES belt just to be clear).

Totals for the 7, largest to smallest: 18.0", 10.5", 8.5", 6.3", 6.0" 5.5", 5.5" (plus 3 top-shelf WWA's). 

In the last 2 winters I've only had two events reach exceed the 5.5" threshold - neither got a warning. 

Still paying the bill for 13-14 is how it feels at times, lol 

[cyclone77]

Sure had a great start to this winter season from Turkey day until about Dec 10th.  The big storm Nov 30th definitely made the whole winter.  It's just a shame that we have to pay for that with what will be a 6-8+ week stretch of very little snowy weather.  Definitely looking like a garbage pattern for the foreseeable future, but hopefully we can bookend this season with more storminess.  No matter what this already destroys last winter's futile excuse of a winter.

[A-L-E-K]

Bonus soak

[Chambana]

10 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

Sure had a great start to this winter season from Turkey day until about Dec 10th.  The big storm Nov 30th definitely made the whole winter.  It's just a shame that we have to pay for that with what will be a 6-8+ week stretch of very little snowy weather.  Definitely looking like a garbage pattern for the foreseeable future, but hopefully we can bookend this season with more storminess.  No matter what this already destroys last winter's futile excuse of a winter.

This is exactly where I’m at, by December 10th this winter had already far exceeded the entire winter of 24-25. It’s just so disheartening to see a blistering hot start be wasted with a major lull during peak winter season. Makes one appreciate wall to wall winters like 2013-2014 and 2014-2015.

[Spartman]

At 0.1" of snow for this month right now. Currently tied for 2nd least snowiest January with 1989.

[cyclone77]

Picked up a T of snow early this morning.  Top 1 event of the month so far.

[Brian D]

2nd round of light snow moving through. Will measure when it's over. Probably a strong 1/2 inch out there atm, but enough to whiten things up a bit. 

[sbnwx85]

Rain changing to a rain/snow mix. Should get a DAB+ tonight and tomorrow.

[Frog Town]

Great Met out of Toledo who would of satisfied the kid in all if we had social media back in the 80's and 90's, when I was a kid.  Anyways, he does an awesome of job of getting into the science and behind the scenes stuff that most don't bother with.  Great guy as well.  He delves into the possibilities over the next few weeks.  

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B3hupyCAs/

[RogueWaves]

Absolute dumpage! Best straight-down dendrites I have seen in quite a while. 1.5/hr easy.

[cyclone77]

Flurries are a fluttering.

[RogueWaves]

M4.0" with the first round - gorgeous wet snow sitting on everything. Mild temp at 30F but just cold enough to stay frozen as the chilly air sweeps in. Future radar brings 2nd round in between midnight and 1 am. Not expecting much if anything with that feature. Seems to skip over for some reason - guessing its mostly lake enhancement and I'm just too far inland.

[sbnwx85]

Split job. Like summer time cells.

[RogueWaves]

These peeps NW of here that get a lot of LES don't know what real concrete snow is (this is wet but not 6 or 8:1 concrete by any means lol)

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Gaylord MI
527 PM EST Sat Jan 10 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0520 PM     Snow             1 N Wellston            44.23N 85.95W
01/10/2026  M4.0 Inch        Manistee           MI   Trained Spotter

            4 inches of wet heavy concrete like snow.
            Still snowing at observation time. 12hr
            total.

[roardog]

46 minutes ago, RogueWaves said:

These peeps NW of here that get a lot of LES don't know what real concrete snow is (this is wet but not 6 or 8:1 concrete by any means lol)

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Gaylord MI
527 PM EST Sat Jan 10 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0520 PM     Snow             1 N Wellston            44.23N 85.95W
01/10/2026  M4.0 Inch        Manistee           MI   Trained Spotter

            4 inches of wet heavy concrete like snow.
            Still snowing at observation time. 12hr
            total.

The last real concrete i remember here was early January 2024. It snowed pretty hard for hours and we got like 2 inches of snow. lol. It was 33F or 34F the whole time.