josh_4184

lol, yea im ready for spring, sustained cold and no snow is no beano for me. Does sting a bit more since UP and coastline have ha da good year, you don't get to pick your weather you get what you get, as said before just glad I gave up on most winter sports besides Skiing / tubing now. Ready to get my boat and 5th wheel out now. Here is a pic at our "peak" winter isnt saying much. This was back around December 7th, for a brief period we were actually above average for snow ytd.

i have had a couple good hit early on in November then in December had about 24" otg then we torched and haven't had much since been all on he coast. I'm ready for spring now, if I read another APX AFD mentioning N/NNW winds going stop reading until next season lol.

Browsing APX snow map history, the last true good winter was back in 08/09 I moved up North in 2012 so missed that one. 2013/14 was good, had lot of LES early then faded as lakes froze from the cold.

He Bo How you been... Very strange how the UP especially towards Munsing and East have been more of a NW flow (best flow for my area and most common during normal winters) while my area not to far to the south has been in a N or NNW flow all winter, never seen that before. NWL was just to close to the sharp trough that kept setup for winter and all the systems lopped around here dragging the sharp N winds with it. Just south of Grand Traverse bay has been cleaning up this winter for sure.

That pretty much sums up the winter up here. UP has done very well this year, NWL not so much. I have about a foot on the ground for quite some time but mainly due to persistent cold and no sun. Still getting Lake Effect Clouds just not the snow as its hugged the shore all winter long.

Yea most normal years, NW or WNW flow is most prevalent, the past few however NNW or N has been most common which is very peculiar. Which as you said is a no go for my area towards Kalkaska. Only really favors helps the UP especially East of Munising.

My group would have gotten along great we road very similar, only used trails to get to gas and food on occasion. I bought my new 2013 Polaris Assault and sold it in 2017 with only 800 miles on it and we road quite a bit but not very much distance as we off trailed 90% of the time.

I have lived in the Gaylord area for about 7 years now, the are near LON where I live "used" to average around 160-180" a year, I think I have hit that number maybe once. Perhaps its just been a bad stretch but do have some concern that perhaps is trend may be more of the norm for the foreseeable future. I do enjoy living in Northern Michigan, although dealing with the cold from late September though April does get a little old. Its not bad when its snowing but just cold air and dirty snowbanks does get old looking at. The wife and I did consider relocating further South last year but with COIVD everything has gone crazy in terms of costs especially housing. Ill get off my soap box now, but do feel bad for the local businesses who rely on the snow to maintain operations until Golf Season.

Not much to talk about again this year in my area, I had one good week around first week of December since then just a few inches here or there. No real sustained LES, The pattern has sucked for our area with the toughing setup to close to us, most systems miss to the south and most LES is N or NNW wind flow which isn't good unless your hugging the coast. UP has been pretty good overall though. I have about a foot at my house but trails and two tracks are beat to sh*t right now. I seen a ton of riders around the area over the weekend riding in dirt with some snow with whooped out trails. Desperate i get it especially since the past 2-3 years have been abysmal for snow.. I guess I'm pretty happy about selling the sleds a few years back and buying a boat got a lot more use out of that thing that's for sure. Although I do miss the sleds everyone once in a while. Certainly not worth the costs/headache to ride for a couple good weeks a year.

Glad to see some of you finally getting some LES, been a tough winter already. I picked up about 7" imby, Areas further south and along the shore have seen close to 20" so far. Bad time for NWS APX to lose the radar for Maintenance. Really sucks not being able to track the bands.

Looks like total from both synoptic and LES is around 29" Picked up another 5-6" last night.

Picked up a little snow the past 48 hours. Yes that's my patio table somewhere in all of that.

Picked up about 10" synoptic and another 12-14"+ of LES so far hard to really gauge due to wind and drifting. Took me over 2 hours to clear my driveway using my plow, blower and shovel. Over 60" on the year now. This Pic below of my patio table isn't a true representation of snowfall/depth as its against my house and protected somewhat from the snow. The fence is about 28" high for reference.

Yea was pretty surprised especially for a synoptic event, usually we don't do to well with front end thumps, usually do better in the deformation zone. LES looking pretty solid for a day or so. No complaints, next couple weeks looking pretty sad for most everyone but certainly wont complain about my area. La Ninas for my area are feast or famine, alot of times the SE Ridge cuts most systems to my west torching us but I have had other years where they do well and the clipper train kicks in.

Picked up about 9" so far, looking like may another 1-3" tonight then 6-10" les on the back end. Not to shabby as models earlier were showing more mix/frz. Im pushing 50" for the season so far, 2/3rds of last years total lol. Considering my average is around 160" in my area. Def a great start to the season.

To bad it wont verify for my area. Although I cant complain I have already had 12" event a several 3-6" events. I know it sucks for Eastern Lake belts........

Yea, we did have one but canceled pretty early, one big gripe with APX is they tend to error on side of major caution when it comes to headlines. I cant count how many times we have had warning criteria snowfall without any headlines at all. Up here most folks are just used to it I guess. Pretty crazy how localized this was even for a LES event, major differences only a few miles away.

You guys will get in on the action, Im hopeful all the GL LES Belts do well this year, we certainly deserve it.

Latest Pics just taken, snow finally stopped, snow depth around 8.5" not to bad considering low ratio and high compaction/melting rate.

Yes we had advisories last night, but they expired around 4 today. I'm around 12" for total event now. NWS APX which is about 5 miles to my east reported 11" for the event. Snow depth is around 8: as iits compacted a lot, S/R really low around 9:1 if this was higher around typical ratios for my area during LES of around 18:1 would be looking at a 20" event. Not to shabby for 1st week of November.

Still snowing

Sounds good ill chill over here when I do have time to get on. Nice being around other LES members again. BTW still snowing,, 1-2" per hr at the moment. Lakes really have come to life the past few hours with the weak trough passing though. Looks like about 5-6 otg hard to get a good measurement as its melting from underneath.

Sounds good, didn't want to inundate your forum with Lake Mich/Sup LES if your mainly focused on Erie and Huron but would be happy to add perspective form NWL Mich. Haven't been a huge fan of the direction of the GL Sub so lost a lot of interest.

Haven't seen Bo post in quite some time, him and I chatted a bunch in PM in the past but been MIA.

Hey Buffalo, how have things been? Ill poke around every now and then, hopefully all the LES areas cash in this year as last year was brutal, my area set a record low for snowfall around 77". Not quite sure what to think about this years potential, but the low bar was set last year that's for sure.