michsnowfreak

Im super jealous of this entire storm (well, the snow aspect lol)...but I am happy for you. This is WELL deserved and overdue. Enjoy! Here, we started with a T of snow yesterday morning, temps spiked to 70F (I think I mayve stayed in 60s), we got 0.06" of rain overnight and now temp is rapidly dropping with strong winds. Hoping for snow squalls later.

What do you mean they use 6+ as standard? Id say its subjective. Woth xmacis, you can see a locations avg 1+, 3+, 6+ etc. This winter DTW had 21 days of depth 6"+

DTW had a trace of light snow early this morning. It was 40° at 11am and has shot up to 70° at 4pm

Yup. 4 of the 5 were cold winters here. The huge exception being 1889-90 which was also warm and equally snowless. This year was way more extreme than normal, but let's not forget a general rule of thumb that relative to climo, a good winter east is usually meh west and vice versa.

"Pretty reliable" is an understatement. The least snowy winter on record there is 80" in 1930-31 & 2nd place is 100" in 1899-00. Since 1957, the least snowy is 2023-24 with 153.4". The snowiest is 390.4" in 1978-79.

Ive actually compiled data on SDDs ever since you told me what they were. Solid for DTW....DJF sdds were 297.

What was your peak depth? Detroit peaked at 9" Jan 26-29 and Feb 7.

Exactly. I remember feb 2015 so vividly because first we had the 16.7" snowstorm then the insane cold. My grandpa was near the end of his life so we went to celebrate his feb 19th birthday despite wind chill warnings to not go out, much less for elderly. But other than being a historic month, it caused no lasting harm. The two week march inferno in 2012 literally ruined the entire 2012 growing season for fruit growers.

Agree. When you talk march 2012 you aren't talking mild, when you talk feb 2015 you aren't talking cold. Youre talking historic on a local level. And theres no sign of that here. For the SW its even worse because they are getting their march 2012 now,.but they already average way warmer.

Not even close for the Great Lakes and northeast. The west is a different story.

If this storm was aligned in the Chicago to Detroit corridor it would be a massive thread. This is the equivalent of a new England threat where the northern half of Maine is the southern extent of the goods.

I head there for a 3-4 day trip every mid to late feb. This year we had a good cold, white winter here in southern MI, but once deep winters back gets broken in southern MI, northern MI hits peak. Their deepest snow is usually mid Feb to mid Mar. Its incredible. I seriously thought about heading up for the storm but its extra cash I shouldn't spend and I risk getting stuck in the UP for an unknown amt of time with Mackinac Bridge closures. For reference. The area thats expecting 12-36" of snow over a 48 hour period....thats on top of a massive snowpack. This pic was from Feb 18.

DTW gusted to 71 mph today.

It seems like November is the better winter month than March lately.

I told a local weather friend last month that we are due for some quick melting snows late winter/spring to beef our total up. I said its only fair because we had such extensive snowcover during the winter but snowfall is near avg. Unfortunately mother nature may take that literally, as we have 2 chances of snow (fri morning and sun morning) that would melt as soon as they are done falling. At least as the models portray it now.