We had some light snow through most of the area yesterday, enough to barely cover the ground which melted off as quickly as it fell. The shovels, snowblowers and plows remain dormant in SW Michigan. The U.S. has 40.8% snow cover, up from 18% last month. New England has 81.2% snow cover from the storm which rolled through this week. Lanesborough, Massachusetts, reported 23 inches of snow on the ground. Some parts of Connecticut had seen 18 inches or more of accumulation, according to the National Weather Service. One ski town in the mountains of Vermont had 44 inches of snow!
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Long-range guesses are still showing a cold shot for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with a warming trend coming shortly thereafter. The outlook for January is guessing a 41% chance of above-normal temps with a 40 % chance of above-normal precipitation. This could still mean snow for our area albeit the wet denser stuff.
All ingredients look to be coming together for some healthy lake snows towards Lake Michigan. So, the entire area will not see significant snows, but for areas along and west of Highway 131 its looking more likely. I am going to have to go with Eeyore and say “it is not going to snow, it never snows in Michigan” then perhaps the opposite will come true.
Models showing big lake event snows on Christmas day what a difference a year makes but whoes complaining lol.. INDY
Looking at the Michigan Tech webcam below, there is barely any snow there. Light dusting, but you can still see grass in the yards. Normally by late December they’re just buried in snow.
While it will change in the next week. But at this time it looks like Houghton has only recorded 3.3″ of snow so far this month. At Marquette they have only has 4.1″ of snow so far in December.
Slim
That seems crazy low for up there! I was there a few years back in mid December and the snow banks were 15 feet high.
Highs in the low 20’s and snow will be such a big Difference then mid 50’s on Christmas day 2020 who would of thought?? INDY
Yep…this Winter season appears a bit “shorter” or “lighter” than expected with regards to snow. The cold is clearly in place, and the ground is frozen. If snow defines Winter, let’s be careful for what we ask for. The NWS prediction of 104 inches could arrive at any moment. Hoping everybody makes the most of their holidays 🎄
Pretty cold week sofar for temps that once predicted to be in the 40’s hmmmm….Yes we have a white Christmas on its way who would of thought?? No 50’s this year ….INDY
Warm up was always next week. WOOD has 40, 40, 44 starting Monday.
Will this prediction be as accurate as the one last week when you said we’d be above normal in snowfall by this past Monday?
Lol …Must of been the covid19 in my head berry …INDY
It is starting to look likely (for this far out) that a lake effect snow event will occur around Christmas. The question is what will the wind direction be?
If the flow is NW, I was going to travel about 20 miles south and stay at a hotel for a couple days to document the storm. BUT it will be Christmas and it is the one time of the year when I want to be home. So hopefully the flow is WNW or W!
Things can change but, as of today, NWS GR is saying the synoptic snow event around Christmas Eve will go north. They do say there could be some lake effect snow but mainly for those west of 131. Will have to keep an eye out.
Love todays title of “No Snow”! For all the talk since mid October of how the snow is only a week or 2 away, here we are 60 days later and still No Snow. Glad I didn’t waste my time in September tuning up the snowblower, it would need it again by now. Let’s keep the ground green well into January!
Good morning. Today is December 17th and as of this morning Grand Rapids has only had 0.4” of total snow fall for this winter season. In the last 100 years this year is now already the 2nd date with out reaching at least 1” of total snow fall in a winter season. In 1998 the date was December 21st At this time 2020 is in 2nd place 3rd place is 1948 when GRR did not report a total seasonal snow fall of 1” until December 10th other years that went into December before reaching one inch of seasonal snow fall… Read more »
That is quite the astonishing record! Only 3 days till we could break it!
I love short winters!
That date above should have been as of December 17 as we know today is the 18th sorry about that.
Slim