January 2025 General Discussion

[Lightning]

1 hour ago, roardog said:

About 3 inches here and it's still not quite done. Back up to about 6 inches on the ground with the bottom 3 inches being more like snow crust.

I have about 8" on the ground with that same 3" glacier/crusty bottom.

[Lightning]

1 hour ago, dmc76 said:

Yes, it’s turning into a deep winter again. We have almost at least 5 inches on the ground if not, 6 inches. Almost 3 inches since last night things are looking like a true Michigan winter.

It definitely has been very wintery around here.  While there has not been any major storms we have been able to consistently see snow.  Thank you Great Lakes!!!!

[michsnowfreak]

Light sugar snow fell nearly all night and now we actually have a decent last band moving through of more dendrites. Didnt get as much to the north but it definitely touched up the old crusty snow. Prior to todays new snow, the snowcover was quite variable because of last Fridays thaw, so now more protected areas have 3-4" on the ground but some areas only have 1-2". There had been lots of grass showing on salt splattered freeways, but of course, thats about as accurate a representation of snow depth as is a snowbank lol.

[dmc76]

2 hours ago, Lightning said:

It definitely has been very wintery around here.  While there has not been any major storms we have been able to consistently see snow.  Thank you Great Lakes!!!!

Snows everyday in a cold pattern. It’s unbelievable really 

[michsnowfreak]

19 minutes ago, dmc76 said:

Snows everyday in a cold pattern. It’s unbelievable really 

DTW has recorded snow on 23 of the 25 days since December 30th. Even when its a lot of mood flakes and dusters, the Lakes spin the flakes.

 

Snow fell at DTW on...

November- 5 of 30 days

December- 16 of 31 days

January- 21 of 23 days so far

[Brian D]

On 1/13/2025 at 11:41 AM, Brian D said:

Ice formation as of Jan 12. And with the current pattern through the month, this should fill in nicely. We could be looking at a high ice year. 

Ice status as of yesterday.

[nwohweather]

7 minutes ago, Brian D said:

Ice status as of yesterday.

Noticed this flying over yesterday. Erie looked like the worlds biggest hockey rink out there

[sbnwx85]

Finished with 1.7" to bring me over 20" for the season. The nickel-and-dime winter continues.

[Chicago Storm]

0.7" of snow at ORD yesterday/last night with the clipper that moved through.

The seasonal snowfall total is up to 9.9".

[A-L-E-K]

On 1/14/2025 at 2:13 PM, A-L-E-K said:

double digits by feb?

[A-L-E-K]

barry the goat

 

[ILSNOW]

Ricky giving us some hope

 

Then as we move into the
first week of February and beyond, a more La Nina-like pattern
may finally unfold, bringing a more active (and more moisture
laden) storm track. With pronounced mid-level ridging up to and
north of Alaska shown on medium range ensemble guidance, the
potentially more active pattern in early Feb should still have
decent cold air in place across the north central US. If this
holds, there may be opportunities at accumulating wintry precip
events, hinted at by the last several cycles of ensemble member
meteograms (member view and mean 24-hour QPF and snow).

[Jackstraw]

1 hour ago, ILSNOW said:

Ricky giving us some hope

 

Then as we move into the
first week of February and beyond, a more La Nina-like pattern
may finally unfold, bringing a more active (and more moisture
laden) storm track. With pronounced mid-level ridging up to and
north of Alaska shown on medium range ensemble guidance, the
potentially more active pattern in early Feb should still have
decent cold air in place across the north central US. If this
holds, there may be opportunities at accumulating wintry precip
events, hinted at by the last several cycles of ensemble member
meteograms (member view and mean 24-hour QPF and snow).

That's why I I'm gonna appreciate this little half inch clean up snow we just got to ice our 3-4 inch glacier (one of the hardest deepest glacier packs in recent memory here). The pattern he speaks of usually brings us in kitchen sink row row just that, a crappy rain, sleet, snow menagerie lol. Definitely looks like better probs for the I-80 crowd to get some welcome relief. Meanwhile this stuff here is fixing to go away next week and we'll be in the dreaded mud/frozen mud 24 hour cycle for a bit.  I hope we can swing through another decent snow before the February cold box settles in. I don't care what anyone says 10F feels like 30F when there's snow on the ground 

[michsnowfreak]

1.5" of powder last night into today did wonders to brighten up the old crusty snow. Brings my Jan total to 8.9" and 14.4" season.

[cyclone77]

Last night's 0.3" brings us up to 5.0" for the season.  

MLI still at 3.6", and now 15.6" below average for the season.  

[Lightning]

The less than 1" forecasted system has concluded with a final tally is a bit over 5".  Would have been more if I used the NWS measurement process, sorry I just use the how much from start to finish.  It was the high ratios that really made this system a lot more fun!

Unfortunately it looks like the daily nickel and dime bombardment for this area is coming to a close.  Now it is time to start look forward to bigger systems and possible clippers.  Really hoping many of us can start getting having some winter snow fun as we head into February.    As Red Green would say: