0.5" of snow so far here in East Nantmeal and still snowing lightly - Merry Christmas to all!

Some December 24 weather history for southern Lower Michigan. 1993: A Christmas Eve snowstorm drops from 3 to 8 inches of snow across Lower Michigan and ushers in several weeks of severe winter weather 2017, a storm strengthened and pulled in cold air as it moved from west to east across the area. Snow totals ranged from 2-4″ west of US-23 to 4-7″ to the east. Peak measurements of 6.1″ and 6.8″ were made in Macomb County. 1983, was a very cold day across Southeast Michigan. Detroit only had a high temperature of 3 degrees above zero, and the low was 9 degrees below zero. Flint and Saginaw were not much warmer with respective highs of 6 and 7 degrees, and lows of 5 below and 3 below zero. December 1983 was the 5th coldest December for Detroit and Flint, and it was the 3rd coldest December for Saginaw.

Now 83mph gusting to 102mph

With temperatures staying at 33 all night the snow on the ground here is now showing a lot of bare spots. So will have to wait and see how much snow is left tomorrow morning. While there should be some snow on the ground there will be a lot of bare spots and will have to see how GRR responds yesterday the official snow depth was just 1"

Yesterday’s official H/L at GRR was 34/27 there was 0.02” of rainfall and a reported 0.1” of snowfall. The was no sunshine. For today the average H/L is 34/23 the record high of 59 was in 2015 the coldest high of 7 was in 1983 the record low of -9 was in 1944 the warmest low of 50 was in 1982. The wettest was 1.79” in 1979 the most snowfall of 10.5” was in 2022 the most on the ground was 19” in 1951.