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Every year I want an early hard freeze so I can be done with leaf clean up by Halloween. Yet even if I get one; every year I need to do a final leaf clean up in Mid-November. Hasn't changed my 30 years of property ownership in this area. Always done before Thanksgiving and never done before Halloween. Only thing a early hard freeze does is allow me to clean out the garden sooner.
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Severe Storms in Michigan are hauling: At 944 AM EST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Lakeview to 6 miles northeast of Sparta, moving east at 75 mph.
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We can't shake these clouds and drizzle. Oh well still got all my outside chores done
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Ended up with about 2" on the ground this evening. Ground is white and trees are covered. Looks like winter. Not bad considering the forecast from this morning was only 30% of snow today. Understandable too considering models mainly kept it south and west of here.
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Same here!!
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Interesting concept that a single day's weather event in October will control the entire winter pattern. Is it a specific location can't get snow or the entire globe? I think it may not have much impact. Flint MI got snow Halloween 2017 and then proceeded to break the season snowfall record during the 2017-2018 winter.
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Looks fun
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October has been average precipitation here. Only got 1/3" out of this system. 1" totals about 10 miles to my north. Not complete misses at all but most of the month the heavier total have been just to the west or north of here. I will say I am not surprised by the set ups.
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Always love these 'Indian spring' days this time of year. They are the best
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2023 Short/Medium Range Severe Weather Discussion
Lightning replied to Chicago Storm's topic in Lakes/Ohio Valley
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I know so many people act like November is a prime winter month around here. Yet even as a kid from the 70s I always considered any accumulating snows before Thanksgiving a bonus snow. Yes it happens but there are many years not so much before Thanksgiving. What do thing of this: What happens in November is history in December
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Monkey off the back here with temps in the upper 20s to near 30 most of the night. It got to 32F just before midnight so yesterday technically was the first day here . Most areas in SE MI are below freezing except the typical UHI big hitters.
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Thanks The updating the criteria totally makes sense for the lakeshore counties as they get significantly more snow. Just not following why SE MI was changed to 7". Most of MN and WI are still 6" So is the southern part of the UP. In the end I personally don't care what they classify it as I only care what actually falls
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It was great this weekend to get a lot of the outside chores done. Only thing left now is mulching leaves (and whatever lawn grows) each week until they are down falling.
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Some areas have had frost (rural). Most summer flower plants around my area are done with leaves dying back. Yesterday we got some sun and several of my neighbors where out cleaning them all out. I did my last weekend except my roses that require a true hard freeze so they are still blooming. I usually cut them back midwinter when I prune the cherry, peach and apple trees.
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Sun came out here about 2 hours ago. It's wonderful Best Climo
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Here is the post from Duluth NWS. https://www.weather.gov/dlh/new-snowfall-criteria-for-winter-storm-warning-2023
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I believe this will make conspiracy theories fly!
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Duluth NWS posted about it. They gave this link. https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=e4d92ef4da394c5c89979605689d9949
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I understand the lake shore counties (LES belts). I agree that over here it makes little sense. Josh could now get three 6.9" snow events in one winter and still not get warning criteria .
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Winter Storm Warning criteria has increased to 7" for MBY. Changes for most of MI.
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Reviewing the past ~25 years of digital photos for this time. It's about average for this date if not slightly ahead around here. Definitely going to be a great weekend of colors
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Which then the next logical question is why you are on this regional forum other than the occasional back to MI visits as most of us on here love winter weather. Trust me you don't have to answer as I already know why!!
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Maybe it'll make November not feel so dreadful ... actually I like Novembers as yard work comes to an end doing one last mostly mulch leaf cut getting ready for snow cover and I get to hang the Christmas lights
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Not sure why either as SE MI is mostly zone 6
