Jonger Posted January 19, 2013 Author Share Posted January 19, 2013 I'm up in Grand Marais, MI right now... 27 degrees and snowing heavily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I'm up in Grand Marais, MI right now... 27 degrees and snowing heavily. Hey. Change the date to the thread to the 25th.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I'm up in Grand Marais, MI right now... 27 degrees and snowing heavily.Got a surprise 4" today. Total on the ground now is 10". WSW until tomorrow night. snow was a nice wet one today too.should be good riding tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Got a surprise 4" today. Total on the ground now is 10". WSW until tomorrow night. snow was a nice wet one today too.should be good riding tomorrow. I heard it rained in around TC today talked to some guys up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I heard it rained in around TC today talked to some guys up there.its actually raining here now. started mixing around 130 today then stopped but started again a bit ago. my road in total slush that will flash freeze. glad the wet snow will freeze and not blow away and we'll get a nice fluff on top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Looks like the epic front is supposed to come through... I'm staring at lake superior right now... supposed to be 50mph gusts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Looks like the epic front is supposed to come through... I'm staring at lake superior right now... supposed to be 50mph gusts. . I'm staring at brown grass and a old rotting snow pile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Looks like the epic front is supposed to come through... I'm staring at lake superior right now... supposed to be 50mph gusts. . I'm staring at brown grass and a old rotting snow pile. I just decided to stay through Monday now..... No desire to return to the snowless hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I'm up in Grand Marais, MI right now... 27 degrees and snowing heavily. IWX's WRF shows that you are in the jackpot area with over 2' by early Wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Hideous maps. Not enough info on them...? Or just the colors are hideous? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Hideous maps. I sense some fustration toward EC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Not enough info on them...? Or just the colors are hideous? Both. Just compare it to an NWS map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I sense some fustration toward EC always Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Both. Just compare it to an NWS map. I've noticed the color coding by EC doesn't extend to very many colors, unlike NOAA. --- With regard to the snowfall water eq. map above. Nice little bullseye in NE Ohio too. Looks like a 0.6" spot over Blackrock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 IWX's WRF shows that you are in the jackpot area with over 2' by early Wednesday. d01_runtotal84_syn.png Yep...and 2 feet may even be an underestimation of the upcoming snowfall in Grand Marais, if you take that liquid equivalent map verbatim. Ratios could be close to 20:1, which means the 2" of liquid would translate to 40" of snow. One thing against high ratios would be extremely cold temps and high winds...but either way, it will be nice and wintry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Thunder lightening and hvy snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Thunder lightening and hvy snow Is that actually LES? I see the bands have established over Superior. That's pretty cool though to have lightning tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I don't believe it's lake effect but the lake is definitely playing a role. Expect bands to set up shortly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherdavewi Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I don't believe it's lake effect but the lake is definitely playing a role. Expect bands to set up shortly. Classic strong cold front lake enhanced band. Check out the convergence along that boundary. Pouring snow here in Gaylord now. Had 1" fall in 12 minutes at my place earlier this evening with the upper wave passage, along with cloud to ground lightning! Don't see that too often. It's nice to see more normal January conditions returning to northern Michigan. It's been way too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OHweather Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Saginaw is gusting to 49kts with the frontal passage! Reporting light snow with a 1 mile visibility with west winds 23kts gusting to 49kts as of 11:53pm. Edit: KCFS (Tuscola area airport?) just came in with west winds 23 knots gusting to 53 knots as of 12:13am...with moderate snow and half mile visibilities. Quite the frontal passage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I have no idea how much snow fell last night. My net is out (imagine that), so surfing off my phone. I can best guess 4" maybe. Has to be a very blown around foot of snow. Garage drifted 4 ft up when I opened it. Apx hinted at the possibility of a foot plus Monday/Monday night, with 3-5 poss before then. LE is such a wild card, you never know. Was out on my snow machine last night but with the visibility near zero at times, it was hard to see. When wind relaxes some today, I'll go back out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I have no idea how much snow fell last night. My net is out (imagine that), so surfing off my phone. I can best guess 4" maybe. Has to be a very blown around foot of snow. Garage drifted 4 ft up when I opened it. Apx hinted at the possibility of a foot plus Monday/Monday night, with 3-5 poss before then. LE is such a wild card, you never know. Was out on my snow machine last night but with the visibility near zero at times, it was hard to see. When wind relaxes some today, I'll go back out. I'd have to imagine you will end up with some crazy drifting there with all the snow coming/on the ground with this wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 All the watch areas here in the GRR area got bumped up to a warning and advisories added to the counties just to the east from here up across Grand Rapids on up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 One of the better potentials DTW sees for LES tonite and fomorrow mofning. DTX mentions I-94 band. Fingers crossed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Here is a nice web cam near Muskegon,MI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Lake slowly but steadily picking up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Intense band rotated thru and literally could not see a 150 ft. 2" of snow in 30 min... Estimate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Perry Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 IWX getting frisky with snow totals IMO. IWX weather story is calling for widespread 2-5" with a west-east oriented swath of 5-8" from Benton harbor to Hillsdale and north (map cuts it off). Grand Rapids snow maps are showing 3-5" from Benton Harbor ENE to Hastings with 1-4" surrounding that. Does anyone know why the NWS is forecasting snow totals well above guidance? Guidance would bring 1.5" to 2.5" to Battle Creek, 2.0 to 3.5" to GRR... NWS has exponential 4.5" between 00z Monday and 00z Tuesday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 IWX getting frisky with snow totals IMO. IWX weather story is calling for widespread 2-5" with a west-east oriented swath of 5-8" from Benton harbor to Hillsdale and north (map cuts it off). Grand Rapids snow maps are showing 3-5" from Benton Harbor ENE to Hastings with 1-4" surrounding that. Does anyone know why the NWS is forecasting snow totals well above guidance? Guidance would bring 1.5" to 2.5" to Battle Creek, 2.0 to 3.5" to GRR... NWS has exponential 4.5" between 00z Monday and 00z Tuesday... Has to do with ratios, model biases etc. Models are not the greatest with Lake effect snow. Then you have the unknown with a possible I94 band setting up which if it does the totals here could be alot higher. See the winter of 06-07 i think it was either late Jan or early Feb when we had one of those I94 bands roll in and dropped almost a foot on the south side of town ( much less on north side of BC ) which no model had predicted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Nice view of the LES bands offshore of Grand Marais this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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