[sweetvelocity]

Apparently February flurries bring April flowers in the beginning of March. I neen them yesterday The flowers had not opened all the way. I give them a few days.

[Coldjensens]

Oops. November came back. Had to brush snow off the car this morning.

We have had our grass covered several times this winter (sort of including today, barely covered, but sort of covered). We are about as S.E. in Michigan as you can get. (You can go about 40 miles further south, but you cannot get anymore east in Michigan I think).

But it is supposed to be gone for the rest of the month.

[YAZ]

Heh.

Goin' to a baseball game tomorrow.

Supposed to be around 80 degrees.

Not to woory, folks.

Your daffodils will poke up through the snow.

[Coldjensens]

Check back with us in four months and tell us how you are loving it there.

Actually we could hardly have better weather than we had on Sunday. One of those perfect days. 60s, cool enough to walk or run or play or work outside without getting all sweaty, but comfortable without sleeves. My son was running aroud with no shirt on. Perfect humidity levels, light breeze. Beautiful blue skies with big puffy clouds, sunny, fresh, perfect.

[michmoldman]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

Check back with us in four months and tell us how you are loving it there.

Actually we could hardly have better weather than we had on Sunday. One of those perfect days. 60s, cool enough to walk or run or play or work outside without getting all sweaty, but comfortable without sleeves. My son was running aroud with no shirt on. Perfect humidity levels, light breeze. Beautiful blue skies with big puffy clouds, sunny, fresh, perfect.

I agree. I love Summer...but dreading those hot humid days...yuk! I wish it could be in the high 60's to mid 70's all the time.

[michsnowlvr]

Originally Posted by danielj72

winter just started a few weeks ago in the northern half of the state. ( and they still have much much less than normal in most areas) Most of the year they have had the same pathetic winter the rest of us have had. At least we had a storm or two here, ive heard that in the southeast corner of the state some have not seen the grass covered.

That is certainly an exaggeration. But hey, the weather always gets exaggerated and embellished (how do you think Grandpa walked uphill in 6 feet of snow? Well he didnt, climate data shows it snowed less from the 1930s-1960s than now, at least in this area lol).

We had many 1-3" type snowfalls this winter, they never lasted on the ground long. The Feb 10/11 arctic front snowstorm was our best of the season dropping 5 inches of snow and drifting. I record precip/snow for the NWS, I live SE of Detroit, and we had 25.5" of snowfall and just 20 days with an inch or more of snow on the ground. Thats probably our most pathetic winter in over 20 years here, but snow has not been nonexistent.

Our peak snow depth this winter has been just 5", and that was on Feb 11th. Each of the last 4 winters had peak depths over a foot.

Pics I took from the downriver area of metro-Detroit this past winter

Dec 5, 2011


Jan 14, 2012 (puffiest fluff i ever saw)

Jan 15, 2012


Jan 20, 2012


Jan 29, 2012


Feb 10, 2012


Feb 11, 2012


Feb 11, 2012


Feb 11, 2012


Feb 14, 2012


Feb 23, 2012

[sweetvelocity]

Yep, November is over. Tornado season begins. I am not sure what to think about this weather. The next ten days we are supposed to have 4 days that are 4 degrees or more. The rest in the 60s and one that is 57 degrees. I am baffled.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by michsnowlvr

This was one of our mildest, most snow-free winters in years. A few cold, snowy weekends for winter-play, but that was about it. After a string of very snowy winters, sadly we were due for a stinker. And this was one, nationwide stinker of a winter.

A snapshot of the last two winters where I live in southeast Michigan

2011-12: 25.4" of snowfall, 20 days with 1"+ snowcover (most days under 3"), well above avg temps
2010-11: 69.4" of snowfall, 81 days with 1"+ snowcover (most days over 6"), well below avg temps

Not very mild out West. Not nationwide.

[Coldjensens]

80 this weekend??

[michsnowlvr]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

Not very mild out West. Not nationwide.

should have said the eastern half of the nation. Its usually always the opositte (cold east, warm west, and vice versa).

Funny thing though, love when I hear someone attribute 1 mild winter to climate change. Sure, this was Detroits 6th warmest winter. Yet, when you look at the top 20 warmest winters since 1870, 15 of the 20 were before 1960, and many of those before 1930. We were due, hoping we turn the page and next winter we see the heavy snows return.