Harry Perry

Yeah this month has been a toilet flush. Aside from the 3-4 days that were in the 70’s... No meaningful rain, just nuisance ULL garbage with stiff northeast winds and temps about 20° below normal.

Looks like another long drawn-out upper level low coming for the end of next week. Hopefully it stays East. Beginning to remind me of the spring/summer of 2009.

Interesting note about the panic attacks. I suddenly began having them while driving in February. Suddenly was dizzy, lightheaded felt weak... pulled over and got out and did a lap. Heart was racing, probably due to adrenaline. Started having less severe attacks pretty steadily for the next 15 days. Thought for sure I was nearing the big one (stroke), but at 32 years old and in relatively decent health paired with 10 years in the fire/ems field told me this is something different. Started contemplating contacting my doctor, as the spells as I’d call them, mainly came while driving and was generally the feeling of sudden dizziness/malaise and brain fog. Finally after roughly 20 days, it had passed. Feel 100% again. Very strange, been hearing several other’s experiencing the same general symptoms. I had COVID in March of 2020. Was generally mild, but a stout fever and hard to breathe. Lost my sense of smell and taste for about a month. Then in April had a double ear infection - lost nearly 90% of my hearing in both ears for 3 weeks... not sure if that was related but I’m willing to bet it was. Then in August my sense of smell went haywire. Everything smelled like raw sewage/sulfur for approximately 2-3 weeks. Then, last but not least (as of now anyway), the panic attack/dizzy spells in February. Hopefully this ship sets sail for everyone, enough is enough.

Just was looking at that too. Would be a warm May if that transpires.

GRR issues a warning for Calhoun, Ingham and Jackson counties. Conservatively calling 5-8” with some 10” not out of the question. They’ll be adding more later I bet lol Kalamazoo doesn’t look any less favorable than BC or JXN.

Yeah NWSChat is down, won’t let me log in either. Keeps trying and failing.

This.

I’m seeing that as well.. seems like it would’ve been wise to just go with warnings where they are warranted and wording about a potential lull. Will be interesting to see how it unfolds. I think your forecast is spot-on.

Have a feeling some DTX and GRR areas may go warning come tomorrow sometime, but as Bill Marino (GRR) stated they didn’t want to confuse the public with two separate WSW’s (tonight’s inch or two compared to tomorrow nights 5-8”) which is understandable. We’ll see.

A realistic outcome at 17-20:1. Looks good.

GRR and DTX on the “general inch or two” train. GRR because the heaviest snow won’t affect them directly and DTX because, well... DTX.

That is impressive. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that either. The entire state. Mind boggling.

Meanwhile my local office I’d say someone is going to be eating crow here, the NW trend can’t be denied. Not saying we end up with a foot but I certainly believe 5-8” is on the table for the I-69/I-94 corridor given the latest agreement across the board. Will be interesting to see how today’s trends play out.

The big thing as noted earlier are the ratios... we’re talking 20 to in some cases nearly 30:1 with temps in the lower teens. I believe the EURO (kuchera) is onto this.

Have a feeling this could end up being quite the snow maker for a good chunk of us. If the trend continues, I would guess a lot more watches to be issued in the morning package.

GRR discounting the system totally this morning. (A general 1-2” is possible). This should be fun to watch.

At 5-6” and counting here. 14°. Roads are a mess. Welcome to winter.

Well that escalated quickly. Heaviest I’ve seen in a couple years. Dropped a quick half of an inch.

Less than 1 minute later... Temp dropped from 33° to 30° in the same amount of time. Impressive.

Heavy returns overhead... current view

Agreed, it’s been a while. Looks like we’ll get 4-6 hours of decent rates tomorrow. Hard to say how much will accumulate at first, but should really start to get going right before it quits Thursday evening.

Biggest snow of the season. Snow ended around 7 this morning. Total 2-3”, hard to measure with the drifting.

Well well, after 6 to 7 hours of returns overhead our first flakes have finally began falling.

It is hitting the “block” wall as you can see on radar.