RogueWaves

Euro [c] would be quite the Christmas gift for Chi-town Peeps

Missed this by a day.. As a follow-up I found this from DTX. I'd say this balanced out the bliz of '99 fail for the Thumb region. "Davison" east of Flint is my hometown. This was likely a TOP 3 storm with Jan '67 firmly holding #1 and April '75 in the #2 spot. Been too long since I've seen a good drift-maker (bliz warning of Valentine's Day 2015 to be exact). On This Date in Weather History... December 11 On December 11, 2000, a powerful storm system moved east just south of Michigan, dumping heavy snow across all of the area, with some freezing rain and sleet near the Ohio border. Near blizzard conditions with up to 58 mph wind gusts were found across all of the area, with an outright blizzard in the Thumb. Many schools were closed for two to four days after the storm. Mail delivery the next day was spotty at best, and many businesses and government offices were closed. Specific snowfall amounts and impacts of the storm, by county... Bay: 8 to 10" in Bay City. Genesee: 12-14" fell, along with 4 foot drifts. Flint Bishop International Airport closed in the afternoon of the 11th, and ended up with 14", the third largest snowfall on record. Up to 200 cars were stranded on Interstate 75 just south of Flint during the storm. In Burton, the roof of a window manufacturing company collapsed. Huron: 16.2" in Port Hope. Lapeer: 12-16" near Lapeer (city), with 3 foot drifts. Interstate 69 was closed from Davison to Imlay City. Lenawee: 5.7" in Adrian with some freezing rain. Livingston: 10-15" with 3 to 5 foot drifts. Macomb: 12" across the county. Midland: 7 to 11" in Midland (city). Monroe: 8.5" just southeast of Milan; up to half an inch of freezing rain in Monroe with several trees downed due to ice and wind, and power outages. Oakland: 12" across the county. St Clair: 12.3" near Avoca; 14.7" in Ruby; 17.5" in Yale, 14" in Capac. In Port Huron, 12-20", closing the Blue Water Bridge to Canada. Saginaw: 11" in Frankenmuth with 3 foot drifts, roads drifted shut. MBS (Tri Cities) International Airport had many flights cancelled, and the airport was closed at 830 pm on the 11th. Sanilac: 13" in Brown City. Shiawassee: 15.5" in Morrice. Tuscola: 10-14" in Vassar. In Caro, 16.3" of snow fell with 4 foot drifts. An 18 car pile-up on the north side of town required snowmobiles to rescue stranded motorists. Washtenaw: 8-12" in Ann Arbor; closing Eastern Michigan University for only the second time ever. Wayne: 6-12" across the county; three-eighths inches of freezing rain in Rockwood; At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, 6.1" fell, with 197 departures and 165 arrivals cancelled.

Interesting map. Odd how way far N is latest. Lwr Lakes east of Chicago is one of the latest regions in the CONUS yet still KBUF can rake mountains of LES at the drop of a hat.

1-2" incoming. Brace yourselves!

There's a "non-zero" chance of waves pre-Christmas for the KC-->ORD-->DTW Peeps. Colder antecedent temps should make anything that tries less of a thread-the-needle scenario than this past system. That's the extent of my optimism.

Lunar-wise, it is mostly autumn. Meteorology decided winter starts Dec 1st. Nature doesn't always oblige.

1-1/2+ inches had everything white and gorgeous this evening. This was in the metro so calling BUST on the "no snow" forecast. This was Novi/Farmington region. Ran into a nice surprise coming back from shopping up in Troy. A few mood flakes here as expected (10 miles south). Nice it wasn't a complete shut-out.

I suppose. One thing for sure, it will change and maybe on the very next run. Prolly snag some white stuff when a clipper pops-up out of nowhere like last Nov.

Waiting for my bump to .3 to .6

Love the big void over OHV/S GL's. Scraps and left-overs map compared to those west/NW

LES. Prolly your best ingredient this winter

Been waiting like 5 years for him to post CAW - just once

Euro says to the Metro UHI "ewe! don't want no part of that"

From Hoosier

Mostly SEMI actually. They weren't even that great in GR and WMI. Thought we were off to a great start last year, but the white Thanksgiving = brown Christmas rang truer than ever. See if this year wants to repeat that mantra.

Thx! 18z Euro looking pretty good still, despite all the "warm talk" (Chicago not withstanding)

DTX warmed to the idea over-night

Not like January's have been anything special either. One ('19) good since 2014's historic, all others avg to below. Now it all rides on Feb when sun angle and push of spring down south means "game over" for most on here.

Good memory on that, yep. Several dustings in Nov and early Dec, but the first solid SN with freezing high temps to go with was 12/8, followed by the substantial system on the 14th. That in my mind was the start of that truly epic snow season across most of SMI. As mentioned by RC, Dec 2010 was similar with the Big Dog getting things rolling.

Not too much longer and it'll be so busy in here everyone will forget all about the snooze fest. Edit: 18z GFS has nearly a foot in Wayne Cnty next weekend Edit-edit: If you want to see some real eye-candy, entire run thru 12/18 has 2+ feet over mby (and many areas).

I think we need to define "CAD" around here - seems to be some lack of a consensus, lol

The Clippers or the late month storms part?

2020 I only had 3.6" in Marshall, about 33% of normal. Wasn't keeping daily data back in Dec of '12 but iirc it was a similar deal with the two bliz storms leaving mby fringed to the left and fringed to the right.

I thought KTOL was like ground zero for the FEB '21 storm. As posted above, DTW hit 11" and was certain you posted that your depth was something crazy like 20+ inches afterwards.

I did fine, yes. I was actually one of those in the right place but I think many on here were too far away from the Detroit magnet that month. I think more shared in Dec of 2016 as relates to good snows.