RogueWaves

Nice little storm delivered 3.5" here over night making for a very snowy commute. Most of NMI is well AN in the snow fall dept. East side such as Alpena is just barely so due the lack of traditional storms bringing moisture up from the Gulf. Trails are excellent now that 99% of the tourists are back to work/school. Could've used this for the holidays but at least it wasn't another rain-off like last December 29th or the year prior with no snow.

Weird how a winter's pattern will get stuck on instant replay. I cannot break out of the pixie dust flakes and haven't seen what you've posted twice recently in so many years I don't even remember when. 11-29-11 were good sized flakes and I'd be willing to bet it has been that long.

Model mayhem at d6 - sounds rather normal tbh

Looking forward to Monday's heavier wet snow (my favorite). With the impending torch it'd go a long way towards keeping my 39-day snow cover streak alive. Right now we have about 5" depth with the glacier underneath the high ratio stuff since last Monday's storm. Regardless, looking at a solid plowable event and it should look really nice around here by Monday's drive home. Tues and beyond will do what it pleases.

Saw your long post in the other thread. Were you in S. Bend then for this storm? Did you see the IDOT plow dash-cam footage on WSBT? Iirc, they were on the US31 bypass as you head north towards the Mich state line. It was insane - never seen an Xway looking like that! Sadly for me, I was NOT at home on the NW side but instead visiting fam up in The Thumb of MI were the storm really fizzled down to just a run of the mill 8" without any winds (lame). Worked in Buchanan then and they had 24" easy. Coming into S. Bend the evening of the 3rd (or 4th??) you could only get on 94 with police escort. And all the county roads we'd normally take were impassable to any regular 2-wheel drive vehicles. Was a lot of work digging into our place 18" on the driveway and a 40" drift at the back door. Great memories.

You talkin Detroit proper (city of) and/or DTW or just the Metro. Metro had the nice 8-12" pounding 3-3-23. Saw SUV's stuck - something I never expected in Canton.

In either of (3) current and former backyards (vs where I actually experienced it in SEMI). Grand Traverse Cnty: 23" (Depth massive!) Marshall in SWMI: 22" (27" Depth) Harrison (present): 20" (30" Depth) Edit - should've included my Michiana address in S. Bend where they really topped all 3 other addresses!

Never concerned - still going up here.

They are nice for keeping a fresh look between dogs of all sizes. Problem is there's been way too many of them vs traditional snowstorms of any size. Personally, I'd like more of these to ring in the new year:

The only thing wrong with this Nina pattern is his latitude. I'm nearly 50% AN to date on snow fall. I wouldn't complain if it wants to get even better, but nothing wrong here so far.

I just had Cold And Wet this December - that's a welcomed change.

Clipper on the 6th still has my attention. Then a rainer, and then maybe something better.

Estimating 2.5" here from last evening. 17.1" for the month is 124% average and my second straight AN December. Ended up being an active/stormy holiday season after all - managed to keep power - zero complaints.

You're experiencing something similar to my own back in the mid-90's and as much as do like winter it can get to ya and it got to me. Didn't you get nearly 200" last season? I had a back-to-back 200+ seasons. And when I moved up to Traverse in Sept 1990 the natives told me how a lot of SEMI folks had went running back downstate after the winters of 85 & 86.

And by the next day, the roads are white from excess salt, not snow and remain that way until either the next duster or a rainer moves through - yup D-town