michsnowfreak Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Very pleased with how well the Feb 10/11 snowstorm busted here. Ended up with 4.9" of snow on 0.33" water. No model had close to that much qpf here, thus the forecasted snowfall was only around 2 inches. Actually 24 hours before the storm, the forecast was for 1 inch or less. Complete with drifts to a foot imby, this has the look of a snowstorm, when all I was hoping was to simply get the ground white for the weekend. Great bust in a mild winter. The arctic fronts passage was awesome. It was like a still snowglobe outside as I stood and waited for the fronts passage. I knew it was coming because it had passed at my friends in Farmington Hills (NW burb of Detroit) an hour earlier (was moving south at 20 mph). I was lucky to capture the fronts passage on video. The video is 2 mins, 25 secs long. It starts with calm snow and by 1:30 it is wild. No editing btw, its all real-time. 2.5" of our 4.9" total came in less than 2 hours with the fronts passage (the visib stayed like that for over an hour). cont.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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michsnowfreak Posted February 12, 2012 Author Share Posted February 12, 2012 As you could see from my pics drifting was everywhere even residential areas, so imagine open fields. Windblown areas have grass pickers with big drifts down a ways. I found this drift today, not bad for a snowfall of just under 5 inches! Then this evening, I caught this pic right after sunset, the clear sky was the coolest deep shade of blue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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