Snow in Northern Michigan
November 17th, 2011 at 12:56 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather
This is what it looked like up near Houghton this morning. This is from a Trail Cam from Michigan Tech. They have up to 6″ of snow on the ground. Painesdale reported 7″ of new snow. In northern lower Michigan, Central Lake reported 4″ of snowfall, with 3″ 9SSW of Gaylord. Traverse City (Munson) had 1-2″ on the ground this AM. Just a few flurries here in the G.R. area. It looks windy and a touch warmer tomorrow (mid 40s) and right now, Saturday looks dry (slight chance very light shower/drizzle late in the day). We could see some accumulating snow around the 26th/27th. It’s very cold in Siberia. The high/low at Oymyakon was -40/-50F yesterday. They are nearly 9 degrees colder than average this month and the last day that was warmer than average in Oymyakon was Oct. 11th. At Noon our time, Fairbanks Alaska sits at -41F, Tanana and Fort Yukon are -40. ADD: This is pretty cool.
Ready for the first good snowfall here in Southwest Kent County. I am hoping for it come December!
Hey the Euro is showing a possible snowstorm for next week Tuesday night into Wednesday and then the GFS is showing a pretty big snowstorm to hit us next week sunday!!! Lets hope this comes true cause im really getting snow withdrawal HA!! Think SNOW!!!!
So far we have about 5″ of wet snow on the grassy areas and trees, on the Keweenaw Bay shore, Pequaming Rd, L’Anse, MI It’s beautiful!
Getting some of those light flurries here now with a temp of 31°
Slimjim
There still is no indication of any really cold temps in the mid range long range guess from the CPC
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/610day/index.php
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/814day/index.php
Slimjim
Looking at December the new CPC long range guess is looking less cold then it did earlier (for our area) and dryer
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/30day/
With the winter as a whole also looking less cold, but maybe a lot of ups and downs?
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=1
Slimjim
Yeah i agree, looks like a up and down pattern but overall possibly milder. I just hope get a nice spring/summer 2012.
They can keep the snow. Today sucked, too cold. Im glad the 50s are returning. Looks like a quiet pattern through the beginning of december.
I agree… the US winter forecast this year looks almost identical to last year (mostly thanks to a repeat La Nina).
Generally colder-than-normal and snowy in the NW US and Northern Plains. Warm and dry in Texas (continuing the drought there), and dry in Florida (redeveloping drought there). In the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes, there are equal chances of above/below/near-normal temperatures (temperatures could at times be like a roller coaster), plus the storm track may eventually set up there once again, with a good chance of above-normal precipitation.
Last year, GR had a quiet first half of December. Most of the snowstorms affected the east coast in the early winter. Early on in the winter, the Midwest only had one really good storm system (Dec. 10-12) bring big snowfall to GR’s west (remember the Minneapolis Metrodome collapse?) and to GR’s east (Detroit/Ontario). GR got into the snow/rain transition, so it was really unlucky in terms of snowfall. There were a couple good NW-wind Lake Effect events, and GR missed out on those too. I remember seeing almost bare ground near GR in early-mid December. Once La Nina’s effects really set in, the expected storm track through the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes kicked in, and GR had some good snowfalls in January and a relatively late 12-16-inch blizzard February 1-2 (historically, most of GR’s 12+ inch events are December to mid-January).
If persistence forecasting is your cup of tea, it would be somewhat safe to assume the same general pattern this winter (a slow start at first, then snowy). But other unforeseeable factors, such as the exact locations of individual storm tracks, could easily result in a different winter story being told for GR.
Oymyakon,Siberia now up to -39F….521 people reside in the town nestled between 2 mt. ranges(just think, fixxxer could make it 522!;) Lowest temp. ever recorded at their wx station was -93F…WARMEST was 94F(7-28-10) for a range of about 187 degrees….also there’s a natural hot springs near ‘downtown’- so fixxx could soak his ailing wrist in 100+ water while soaking up the sun(3hours worth) in -50/colder temps!If we all pitch in $.50, we would probably raise enough to send him 1′st class via ‘Air Siberia’ w/ all-u-can-drink vodka included in fare.
How do you say “when will we see severe storms?” in Sakha?
Thank you Bill for keeping the snowfall pretty up to date. I really appreciate it. Just need 1 more week of no snow then hopefully it’ll all fall
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Yeah, will see most of our snow in February like the last couple ..
February is a perfect time for a lot of snow & cold. Then is dosen’t mess with the driving I have to do to acomplish all of the holiday tasks:)