The snow showers we have seen yesterday and for today are from actual lake effect. Yesterday’s snow was of the wet sloppy variety but luckily it melted away quickly so little or no shoveling was needed. We picked up an inch and a half yesterday and overnight in Otsego. The high temp yesterday was 36° with a low of 30° overnight.
At this point, there are no snowstorms on the horizon just meager lake effect over the next few days which may give us a couple more inches of snow early this week. Overall our weather pattern will be fairly quiet this week with a chance of some sunshine on Thursday.
Colder air is shown to arrive from the north Fri-Sat in the wake of the Thursday low, but ridging should limit lake effect snow potential. In the absence of any exciting weather over the coming week, the thing to watch will be the potential of an impactful synoptic low-pressure system sometime around the 25th or 26th of January as several models continue to hint at this potential.
In case you didn’t notice there is a write-up of the Children’s Blizzard of January 12th, 1888 under the Strange Weather menu.
Breaking news >>>>>>>still 61 more days of the winter! Get ready for tons of snow! Rock n roll will never die! Get outside and enjoy winter baby!
Another day with below normal snowfall. 30+ inches below normal for the season. Lets try and spin this one.. lol ! Days keep getting longer. One day closer to spring .. I love it !!
Still seeing light to moderate snowfall! It has been snowing all day long! Who wouldn’t want that on nice January winter day?
Pummeled by one melting tenth of an inch of snow after another. Just another above average temp and below average snowfall day. Soon be time to fire up the lawnmowers again.
Oddity last night at the GR reporting station. For 6 hours straight during the night the high and low was exactly 30. Never moved one degree, and yes 12 degrees above average.
https://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KGRR.html
What a super winter day outside we are approaching 2 inches of fresh new snow in my area it looks beautiful and it’s still snowing ….Let’s keep it going through April…Gots to love lake effect snows …INDY
There have only been 6 days the entire winter where GR has reported more than 2” of snow on the ground. It’s so unusual seeing bare ground and grass all winter!
Yeah for all the claims of a solid snow pack all over, one only has to look at the official snow depth reported by the NWS. The past several days GR has reported zero, zero, and a trace. Unless of course they’ve been hacked by Russians or somebody, those are the only totals that matter.
Qanon just posted that GR has officially had at least one inch of snow on the ground for the last 143 days!
Lol …..Great find Rocky!! INDY
https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=grr&product=cli&issuedby=grr
You mean Qanon is not posting accurate info and the World is not flat? Incredible!
The Childrens Blizzard. Well written book…has been in my library for years.
I thought this just came out. I am glad to hear you liked it. I looked at it & thought that too.
What an absolutely gorgeous winter day! We are seeing some nice light snowfall as we speak! It is starting to pile up. Bring it!
Hey like said before I don’t care if we end up with 50 inches of snow under for the season it’s just been nice having it on the ground for about a month now so we can enjoy it!! And I have woo woo!! Bow we are getting ice on local lakes ice fishing real soon to add to the fun who would of thought??? let’s keep it going through April like previous years….INDY
You know it and some people are already ice fishing, so winter is in full force!
For those cross country skiers out there – check this out! Near perfect conditions just 2.5 hours North of GR! Who knew?
https://www.forbushcorner.com/post/grooming-report-saturday-jan-17th
On a fresh thought this morning loving the fresh lake effect snow falling in my area ..iNDY
More snow! Who would have thought?
Get ready for below normal temps for most of this week into the weekend other that a brief warm up on Thursday! Get ready for a backloaded winter with tons and cold and snow! Bring it!
Breaking news…..I went cross country skiing all weekend long with absolutely pristine conditions! The trails were extremely busy as winter lovers were out in full force enjoying winter instead of complaining! It was a beautiful sight! It is always funny how the warm weather fanatics always try and tell me conditions are not good while they are sitting on their duff and I am out enjoying winter!! Incredible!
Cadillac Michigan has 8 9 inches of snow on the ground my parents in Lakeview Michigan have 6 inches of snow on the ground you don’t have to travel far for good snow cover that is a fact! Nothing like last year at this time INDY …
Exactly and thanks for the facts! Snowmobiling is in full force up by the Cadillac, and Houghton lake areas! Just incredible conditions!
The snow keeps piling on!! Yesterday Grand Rapids reported 0.3” of snow fall (it did not stay on the ground) this morning here at my house I now have a 0.1” of new snow on the ground. At the current time there is light snow falling with a temperature of 31.
Slim
Yes .3 inches yesterday and now a steady snowfall currently! Another great winter day!
Get ready for another quiet week of no big snow – and even another warm up. I love it!
Well, our supposed “cold and snowy” weekend was warm with a whopping 0.3” of total snow.
Snow report from WOOD, not so good to the North either:
“I wish I had better news. I checked out trail reports across the Northern Lower, Central and Eastern U.P. of Michigan. There’s no good news as all trails are being reported in poor condition.”
Guess more lies from Rocky! Who knew?
It’s great the little patches of grass are now covered with snow again so we can say we had snow on the ground for over a month now far les in inches yes from last year but more snow cover and more fun this year crazzy let’s keep it snowing …Your Monday thought ..INDY
Snow country is a winter wonderland. I was up in the Gaylord area this weekend and 2 to 4 inches of fresh snow, solid snow pack and great ski and snowmobiling conditions! Incredible winter conditions! Keep it rocking baby! I absolutely love it! Bring on the polar vortex!
Since around Christmas most of the state of Michigan has had decent snow covered on the ground I know at one time we had over 90% of the state with snow cover on the ground amazing a lot better then last year at this time …let it snow let it snow let it snow. ..INDY
A few tenths of an inch of snow yesterday, but a net gain of zero on the ground as it was all melted by the afternoon. Today, the 18th, was the day some were saying would be the arrival of the polar vortex. What happened?
Sad write up on The Children’s Blizzard. Named because of the loss of so many children, sounds terrible.