[313 TUxedo]

Let us all not forget that it does snow in April in Michigan. Big snow. The arctic air masses that blow through from January to March are also very dry air masses - and much of the snow that forms in the sky sublimes in the dry atmosphere before it can reach the ground. In April, there is plenty of moisture, and, if it is cold enough, be ready!

People think I'm crazy when I tell them Detroit's biggest snowstorm was in April (Google it!)

I will remember this winter more for its persistence than its brutal cold. If one were to look only at the record temperatures for 2010-2011 in Detroit, they would get the misconception that this had been a mild winter - it seems there were more record highs than record lows (usually around midnight, with rain and damaging winds), and very few nights below zero downstate. The misery was in the temperatures almost consistently about 10° F below average. In other words, Detroit had just a typical Marquette winter!

The lasting effect on me is that it has turned me off to winter. For years I've thought I would like to live in Marquette or Escanaba, or perhaps Minneapolis (where I already have family). If 30° is too cold for comfort, how is 20° or 15° any different? Now I know the difference, and I don't like it!

[idw2s]

Originally Posted by michmoldman

Well....its either a few inches of snow, or live where they are getting tornados about every other day...Ill take the snow.

[Perferator]

I dont know if many here recall that heavy snowfall we took in the northern lower last year the first weekend in May. We woke up to 6-8" here in Boyne City that first saturday. Talk about a shock. This was after many days in March and April that were summerlike and hot. It was near 90 several days coming into May and BAM there it was.