michsnowfreak

The one Detroit station switched at 10pm last night (they are a newer station of only a few years) to beat their competitor, the local radio giant who has been known for years as "Detroits Christmas Station". They always make a big production of the switch to Christmas on their morning show, sometime in early November, so since the other station flipped my guess is they do it tmrw. lol I just can't help myself, been listening all day as flakes fly outside and I'm starting to get Christmas decorations out.

First snowflakes here as well. Flurries and light snow. The 2019-20 snow season ended May 12th and the 2020-21 snow season begins Nov 1st. Perfect day for Christmas music to start!

gorgeous crisp Halloween. Peak last about 2 weeks this year, unusually long, but leaves are falling fast. Low at DTW 29F

Long stretches of overcast are pretty typical in the Great Lakes. Justvlast winter we went from Jan 21 til Feb 1 with no sun.

After a cloudy chilly week, not a cloud in the sky today.

the lowest at DTW has been 33. Pretty much everyone outside the urban heat island has had a freeze or several. As for the Western Michigan, it's not uncommon for the lakeshore to have later freezes

Nah. Asking something to hold for 3 weeks in a la nina pattern is asking a mighty lot lol.

I've had enough years of experience to know that while my mind is ready for snow November 1st, it's much better to blow mild boring weather the 1st half of November.

Sounds like hes being more superstitious. We did not have any snow in October 2011 and the Winter was pretty much the suckiest I've ever experience although it was not as bad as it was in SNE. Also all this wintry stuff going on in the upper Midwest and in the plains was not there in October 2011. This October will finish below average here once again different from October 2011. My superstition is that weve had no flakes in Oct yet. 7 of the past 8 Octobers (since 2011) have had a trace of snow. Then again we had 5 days of snow this May. Ma nature evens out. God we weenies are superstitious lol

Is this guy pining to try and say this will be a 2011-12? Because how many mild novembers are followed by severe winters? (a lot). If anything in recent years cold and snowy Novembers have not good news for Winter

wild start out west. here comes a wild winter!

fwiw, I have now went out to dinner once and today I had to go to Sam's club to do some shopping. These are the first 2 times I've been in public since having it and I can report that every single person I saw was wearing a mask. If people just continue to cooperate we can hopefully avoid a lockdown.

CMH is only +0.4 for oct

I will say that everywhere I've been everyone has been good with wearing masks.

Hard to tell if we squeeze out any flakes in October in Detroit. We've actually had snow 7 of the past 8 octobers (only 2016 did not have anything), but all 7 years were just a trace.

So many people report that and it lingers for months. I was fortunate to not have that. in fact on my sickest day I slept about 14 hours and I did not want to move and I had no appetite. I had to force myself to eat an apple and I remember it tasted so sweet and good I just did not want to eat it.

I'm wondering if anyone else here has had it? i know some in other forums did. And thank you! I really appreciate the kind words but no need to mention me, I was a mild case, I just like to point out to everyone that with first hand experience, even with a mild case, yes the flu like bad part lasts 10-14 days, but usually some minor things linger for 3-5 WEEKS. Most common is a cough and varying levels of fatigue, which is my issue, but a lot of people also lose their sense of taste and smell (luckily I did not). And again, this is common for most of the 80% mild cases. This is not close to talking about the issues that "long haulers" face and many do have permanent damage. So yes, only a very small percentage of people actually die but I just cannot stand when people compare this to any other virus. I hope they are ready to be tired and have obstacles for a month If they get a mild case.

I did not realize. sending well wishes jackstraw!

sounds like me

2011-12 was definitely worse here. It was a bit warmer than 2019-20 and had 18" less snow. I use 2011-12 as my benchmark for crap winters but it was surrounded by harsh winters so needed to flatten the curve at some point lol.

I would say most people do not know someone personally who died but everyone has to know someone who's had covid or else theyre lying.

Wow. To each their own. For me personally, Having hotter and more humid summers than I already have, hardly getting any snow, and living in an area with very conservative people is just not my bag. But I am sure some people love it.

I definitely do not wish I lived in the south

I'm not a dr and I don't have any proof of the potency thing, but its what my dr told me.

one saving grace is the virus has lost its potency from spring.