michsnowfreak

SC? Why the move?

Where did you fly to?

Wow I did not even realize that. I do remember the one day where we hae a midnight high and afternoon temps in the teens but still. That should end friday. Just 2 winters ago we set a record for the longest streak of consecutive days without hitting 20ﾟ. Even winters that are warmer than this have managed a day or two with a colder max. The record for warmest minimum high temp for a season is 20, set in 1952-53, 1997-98, 2005-06.

Most people had horrible forecasts. SE MI may end up with a little more snow than avg, thats definitely still on the table...but LOL at normal temps and snow around the holidays, i wish!

My personal favorite is when there is NOT agreement a few days out and the model camps then swap ideas. For example, 4 days out the American models will be north and strong and the foreign models south and weak, then 2 days out the American models will be south and weak and the foreign models will be north and strong.

I LOVE your videos! Have the camera handy for Wednesday night hopefully. Did you video the November storm? Or the mid January storm?

How ironic, all those great winters we were having in this sub forum Toronto was often sitting on the sidelines, now in a Winter when so many want to pull their hair out Toronto is well above average to date. DTW is at 28.6", which is actually 1.6" above average to date (Flint is more above avg). Still need about 14" to get to the season total average, but with as many things as I can complain about the way this winters gone, total snowfall is not one of them. My backyard is almost a match at 28.5", although it's a product of a few tenths more or a few tenths less on many snow falls.

I want to look up the stats for Detroit as well, are you counting 0ﾟ or counting -1ﾟ and colder

Same thing happened here. The scenic snow immediately started to drip off the trees once the snow ended. We had a bit of negligible drizzle but the thump of measurable precip.was all snow. But temps hovered in the mid 30s all night.

Looks really good for some more snow, but if those 2 streams could just phase...

Kind of difficult to answer that, saying a "majority of the midwest". Most individual locations in the Midwest have had many winters locally without a 6"+ snowstorm, however I doubt that there has ever been a Winter where no one in the midwest got a 6"+ snowstorm, and this one has already had several.

It was November 11th in southeast Michigan

Picked up 1.8" of packing cement. Literally the complete opposite type of snow of the fluff of the past few days. Scenes were gorgeous but as soon as the snow stopped the dripping began. All in all it played out pretty much as expected, originally I was hoping for a bit more but trends todey had me guessing a ~2" snow. Have picked up 6.2" since wed night in multiple rounds of snow, however the snow depth has hovered in the 2-3.5" range with settling, compacting, melting. Temperatures have warmed to the mid 30s and snow depth is a packed 3 to 4" but the pavements are mostly slush.

Snowing nice out. Did not take long to go to instant moderate snow.

With the moderating Great Lakes, Detroit has more winters than Chicago where temperatures do not fall below 0. Obviously more often than not they do fall below 0, but I have to check how many winters do not (but I know it's more than 10%). Very few subzero readings in the 1950s, easily the decade with the least. What is interesting to me is that the lowest temperature so far this season was 7ﾟon November 13th. I don't think there has ever been a season where the coldest temperature was in November (granted that was not only a record low but record earliest date for a single digit low). On another note since the last few days were the 1st fluff fest of this season, I am reminded how quickly fluffy snow compacts/settles/melts compared to wetter snow. Nothing more gorgeous than the sparkles a fluffy snow, but it's so annoying to see how a temperature of 32ﾟ can zap it down so quick.

We picked up 0.9" of fluff over night, and I mean airy fluff, a very low water content. We missed the heavier stuff to the North. Once it stops snowing that stuff settles very quickly, I suppose that's what you call a stat padder, though it does keep the snow cover nice and white lol

Ill take the 00z nam.

Certainly not the deepest snow we have the season, but its a winter wonderland nonetheless. Went out for a walk today to enjoy the return of white. Temperatures have spiked into the low to mid thirties but should plummet soon with perhaps squalls

After the 2.0" of sugar we ended up with 1.3" of deformation fluff. So event total in my backyard was 3.3" of snow on 0.26" water. Still enough for the 3rd largest snow event of the year, but quite a ways away from number 1 & 2. Sun has come out and it's compacting in spots but it's nice to see all the white return.

Probably different dynamics this far North, but I certainly agree with you. It was pure sugar here despite temperatures in the mid 20s. I had 2.0" of snow on 0.20" of liquid equivalent. ASOS often slightly under catches snow water equivalent for what it's worth

The snow swath was very underwhelming, but that was the 1st measurable snowfall of the season and Oklahoma City lol it's been bad here but I would not call it bottom shelf bad. Snowfall is running not far from average here, and is way below average just to our South. With these HORRIBLE models I refuse to say anything to jinx it, but you do the math, if some of the snow this week pans out, we could actually be in positive snow departure territory.

Haha i hope it isnt coming. As jonger said, just a bad pattern this year, it happens. We've "lucked" out since we are far the North, but it's been a bad pattern.

Ended up with 2.0" of 10-1 ratio sugary, sandy snow here, no fluff factor at all. DTW 1.9". Seems like most of Southeast Michigan got between 1-2". Rogue called it about the needles cutting into totals i.e. ratios. Now it looks like they deformation should hit this afternoon and tonight, if there's more fluff factor as there often is in deformation we will get more snow tonight than we did last night. Another A+ job by the models . Looks pretty out though.

Snow started with a Bang here, probably nearing an inch and roads in very back condition. Temperatures fell from 29 to 25ﾟ once the snow started