Madtown

Hope we cash in on one of these and then some lake snow. Not being greedy just give us enough to open trails!

Come on snow

1 minute ago, sumweatherdude said:

Almost January, and look at Houghton, Michigan.  One of the snowiest places in the country. 

https://www.mtu.edu/webcams/walker/

 

it's nuts. Just talked with our chamber. while paying taxes. Multiple hotels had 100% cancelations for this week. unreal

1 hour ago, tStacsh said:

Here we go, the long range supports cold, only to come back to the same old split flow El Nino pattern that is dominating the weather pattern.   Gonna take a lot to change it.   Highs went from near to below average next week, and already back to above normal and above freezing.   January starts out on the "warmer" side here in Michigan.  WIth no real threat of accumulating snow for the next week.  

This is crazy..went from low 20's to 30's up here. Gfs  is even warmer.

SSW canceled, MJO sucks and El Nino. This winter is fully cooked. 

Businesses are way down, some just staying closed till trails open. This is gonna hurt. 2 to 3 weeks away from snowmobiles. Swamps are all water no frost in the ground. Lakes have opened up. Friends that have been here 40 50 plus years haven't seen it like this.

For your enjoyment 

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49 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Pattern is clearly changing.  Easy to cherry pick a day or two to make it seem like it's not.

All I'm saying is as of Friday today's high was supposed to be 30...now 45. The coldest high is pushed out to Jan 3rd at 32 now. These temps have been pushed out since Dec 16th and keep getting pushed out. Yes a pattern change will come, but to say I'm picking a day or 2 is kinda comical at this point. Sorry for the bad example.

Rare territory I tell ya.

40 on the 29th. Looks like the pattern change keeps running away!

1 of 4 brown Christmas on record at Marquette MI this year. I believe while not official we arent far behind here maybe number 10 or 15 in total. Not only that but it's been so warm lakes are no longer safe to fish on after today. truly bizarre.

Merry Christmas!

anyone got the Euro 6z snow through the 27th?

Practice followed by 13 floods tonight. down to 4atm. Why can't this stick around!?!?!

A lake surprise! close to 6" down

2 hours ago, Niko said:

This is pretty neat. How do you take care of this. I am assuming it must take a lot of effort.

Hours and hours and hours. Snowblower, zamboni, shovels, fire hose.

Still in the 40's and 50's at the end of the gfs run around New Years. I know I know it's out there, but the odds of a large scale cool down look to be about 0 at the moment. Second or third week of Jan, maybe. Bars and restaurants starting to get pretty antsy atm.

gonna make a mess of the rink. just an unreal  start to winter. Lack of snow is one thing, but 6 days in the 40's is nuts

Sneak attack snow storm Friday night up this way? Seems pretty warm,  but all models showing it now!

Second go around on the rink. Hoping this one don't melt. Over 60 hours into build time in the last 2 weeks...Just brutal.

14 minutes ago, hawkstwelve said:

12z GFS with a big league Christmas Eve snowstorm. 

Should be about 75 in Iowa and Illinois with this set up...Maybe get into the mid 60's in Wiscon

brutal

1/2" of sleet and snow. Down to a frigid 31

Would be curious to see what changed in Muskegon in the 90's. Was pretty lockstep in temps with the others till then, and then a large jump. Also interesting the current avgs are close to those of the 50's

32 minutes ago, Clinton said:

There is some not so great news going on with the MJO.  It looks like it's going to struggle to move out of the torchy phase 6 and when it does it pretty much stays in the null phase or gets to a low amplitude 7,8,1.  Lots of spread on the ensemble members but not a great look as of this morning.

This sucks. 

5 hours ago, jaster220 said:

So, if you live in this one region of this one single county this winter storm is not a complete bust, lol

lol..right, that's all lake stuff maybe a 20mi area. we might get 1 or 2 here. 35 mi away. back to 40 on Thurs 

3 hours ago, WBadgersW said:

I sas hoping to go snowmobiling up in Eagle River the first week in January. Really starting to doubt if it's going to happen...

Gonna need a lot to happen. Pur 2" of snow held tough till about noon today in the woods. Bare ground everywhere now. Water on top of all the lakes. Looks like March. it can change in a week, but sure seems the extended offers little hope before the 29th

I know it's early, but we are so far behind. I just don't see anything good out of this winter. We're looking at 2nd week of January before trails open and that might be optimistic. 

Ouch

long range gfs isn't even remotely cold around Christmas...this sucks