Today's Notes: Snow totals for Jan 10th, 11th, and 12th are listed below.

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Most snowfall Jan 12: Painesdale with 6.5 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 132.3 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Today's Notes: Snow totals for Jan 7th, 8th, and 9th are listed below.

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Most snowfall Jan 9: Keweenaw county with 2 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 122.1 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Snow is slowly adding up, some places more than others. Considering how little snow we had until the middle of January last year we will take all we can get.

= If you are a snowmobiler it’s been a bit tough to find good snow unless you’re in southern Houghton county, eastern Ontonagon county, Alger county, Luce county, Schoolcraft county and parts of Chippewa county. Snow conditions have been rideable but turned pretty rough around Christmas into the New Year and it wasn’t until these last few days when we got another blast of lake effect and colder temperatures that things improved a bit.

Cross country ski trails have improved as well across these same areas. The SISU ski fest in the western UP got cancelled again for the lack of snow that’s how bad it is over near Ironwood and Bessemer for now this season again.

We will see a bit of light lake effect the next couple days, but nothing that warrants any Winter Weather Warnings or Advisories at this time.

The 24hr Kuchera forecast shows most snowfall will be around the Porkies with most of Ontonagon county seeing some snow as well as Southern Houghton county. Looking out east we can see a little snow south of Marquette and much of Alger county and into the Schoolcraft county line area.



Wednesday night we should see south winds move cloud cover to the north over Lake Superior which should open up opportunities for star gazing, not total clear skies but enough to view some stars. Temps should dip into the single digits across much of the Upper Peninsula especially the western and central UP off of Lake Superior.

Models don’t really show much as far as precipitation into the weekend, but it is around the beginning of the coming week when it appears a clipper will be arriving that should bring snow back into the NW snowbelts. We shall see how things develop over the weekend as clipper arrives and shortwave moves out during the weekend. Cold air lingers and Lake Superior ice coverage is still low so anything can happen.



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Most snowfall Jan 6: Manistique 2.7 with 0.4 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 117.2 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Well 2024 is out and 2025 is in. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a enjoyed rolling into the new year of 2025.

On the weather side of the final days of 2024 it wasn’t to interesting, but it was kind of nice to have a few warmer days and no snow to have to shovel for the last 12 days, that is now changing as we enter 2025.

After the second half of December with no snow, we welcome what little snow we have gotten these last few days.

Right now we have two snow stations that have joined the 100 Inch Club with a handful of others that should join soon, perhaps this coming week.

Snowiest places these last few days were around Painesdale to Twin Lakes, north of Bergland into the interior portions of the Porkies and east of Munising and NE Newberry and McMillan, and localized near the Soo. Other places in the UP saw no snow and up to an inch or two.

Most of the Upper Peninsula cleared up late morning into the afternoon and the areas near Munising to the Soo were still experiencing some lighter lake effect banding into early evening hours, but that should be heading out now.

Lake effect snow is hard to predict and where we are located in the US makes it harder. We have so many things that can affect how it snows in the Upper Peninsula and where it snows. Snow totals can be affected by air temps at different levels, varying Lake Superior temps, ice coverage, abrupt elevation changes, valleys, cliffs, bays, Arctic air, southern moisture, wind and speed across the water and across land, directions of winds and a lot more.

The Upper Peninsula is a unique place, unique in many ways and not just weather and that’s what we love about it. Weather, especially winter weather we really embrace, we love to talk about our snowfall, being it has some of the snowiest locations east of the Rocky Mountains.

Little snow is expected in the next few days as temps stay a bit colder through Wednesday and getting back into the low 20s by Thursday across much of the U.P. into the weekend.

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Most snowfall Jan 3: McMillan with 8.0 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 112.6 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Most snowfall Dec 30: Munising with 1.0 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 100.1 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Today's Notes: Lake effect snow returns and so do the colder temps, at lest through the weekend into early next week.

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Most snowfall Dec 30: Herman with 1.5 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 99.2 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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After 20 straight days of measurable snowfall we had 3 days of no measurable snow. A good start to winter indeed in most places across the Upper Peninsula, except the southern areas of the Upper Peninsula, like Iron Mountain to Escanaba, to Gladstone, Manistique, and over to St. Ignace. There isn’t much if any snow on the ground and grass is showing. Meanwhile in places in the Keweenaw and right around the Munising area have 25-30 inches of snow on the ground and places around Ironwood and the Soo have 3-10 inches on the ground only.

The last couple days there hasn’t been any significant snowfall, just a couple inches, but enough to cover up some of the crusty snow and icy driveways after the warmup.

If you wanted more snow like we saw the last few weeks, you won’t be seeing it anytime soon, perhaps for another 2 weeks. You’ll have to deal with another low snow December it looks like, but it is better than last December that’s for sure.

Monday it appears a southerly wind could give the southern U.P. and far eastern U.P. a little bit of snow maybe up to 2 inches, but nothing more as the low moves out pretty quickly Monday night. The rest of the Upper Peninsula will see a mostly dry period from Sunday to into Thursday.

Above normal temperatures look to reappear Thursday bringing with it moisture from the southwest and from the Gulf giving us a chance of rain Thursday and Friday, maybe a little mixed precipitation early Thursday before temps get into the mid 30s to upper 30s.

In the next few days we may see our first snow station hit 100 inches for the season, we have a few others 20-25 inches from hitting 100 inches.

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Most snowfall Dec 17: Bergland Dam with 4.5 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 96.7 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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After 20 straight days of measurable snowfall we had 3 days of no measurable snow. A good start to winter indeed in most places across the Upper Peninsula, except the southern areas of the Upper Peninsula, like Iron Mountain to Escanaba, to Gladstone, Manistique, and over to St. Ignace. There isn’t much if any snow on the ground and grass is showing. Meanwhile in places in the Keweenaw and right around the Munising area have 25-30 inches of snow on the ground and places around Ironwood and the Soo have 3-10 inches on the ground only.

The last couple days there hasn’t been any significant snowfall, just a couple inches, but enough to cover up some of the crusty snow and icy driveways after the warmup.

If you wanted more snow like we saw the last few weeks, you won’t be seeing it anytime soon, perhaps for another 2 weeks. You’ll have to deal with another low snow December it looks like, but it is better than last December that’s for sure.

Monday it appears a southerly wind could give the southern U.P. and far eastern U.P. a little bit of snow maybe up to 2 inches, but nothing more as the low moves out pretty quickly Monday night. The rest of the Upper Peninsula will see a mostly dry period from Sunday to into Thursday.

Above normal temperatures look to reappear Thursday bringing with it moisture from the southwest and from the Gulf giving us a chance of rain Thursday and Friday, maybe a little mixed precipitation early Thursday before temps get into the mid 30s to upper 30s.

In the next few days we may see our first snow station hit 100 inches for the season, we have a few others 20-25 inches from hitting 100 inches.

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Most snowfall Dec 17: Big Bay (EagleMine) with 6.0 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 94.1 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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After 20 straight days of measurable snowfall we had 3 days of no measurable snow. A good start to winter indeed in most places across the Upper Peninsula, except the southern areas of the Upper Peninsula, like Iron Mountain to Escanaba, to Gladstone, Manistique, and over to St. Ignace. There isn’t much if any snow on the ground and grass is showing. Meanwhile in places in the Keweenaw and right around the Munising area have 25-30 inches of snow on the ground and places around Ironwood and the Soo have 3-10 inches on the ground only.

The last couple days there hasn’t been any significant snowfall, just a couple inches, but enough to cover up some of the crusty snow and icy driveways after the warmup.

If you wanted more snow like we saw the last few weeks, you won’t be seeing it anytime soon, perhaps for another 2 weeks. You’ll have to deal with another low snow December it looks like, but it is better than last December that’s for sure.

Monday it appears a southerly wind could give the southern U.P. and far eastern U.P. a little bit of snow maybe up to 2 inches, but nothing more as the low moves out pretty quickly Monday night. The rest of the Upper Peninsula will see a mostly dry period from Sunday to into Thursday.

Above normal temperatures look to reappear Thursday bringing with it moisture from the southwest and from the Gulf giving us a chance of rain Thursday and Friday, maybe a little mixed precipitation early Thursday before temps get into the mid 30s to upper 30s.

In the next few days we may see our first snow station hit 100 inches for the season, we have a few others 20-25 inches from hitting 100 inches.

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Most snowfall Dec 16: Painesdale and Calumet/Tamarack loc with 0.8 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 91.9 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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I have included the 3 day snow totals as well just below the daily snow for Dec 12th. The only areas to really experience the snowstorm effects were areas south of Houghton and just east of Munising and just west of Munising. Other areas of the UP really didn't have snowstorm conditions but some still saw a few inches of snow while others saw almost nothing.

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Most snowfall Dec 12: Painesdale with 6.2 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 91.1 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Most snowfall Dec 11: Painesdale with 12.5 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 84.9 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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NEWS: UP Snowmobile Trail Re-route in Wakefield per Gogebic Range Trail Authority - ORV & Snowmobile Club “trail 8 park and ride in Wakefield to the east is now closed because a land owner pulled the use permit”. “We are currently working on a re route through the city of Wakefield. More information will be announced as soon as possible!”

11:45pm(12.11.24) Road Closure due to blowing snow M95 to M77 (Seney Stretch)

1:35am (12.12.24) Road closure due to blowing snow M95 Shingleton to Manistique

Marquette Mountain Ski hill opens today.

Winter is off to a good start

This winter is certainly on a track to become one to remember for years to come. There is a lot of winter to be had yet, so hold on tight, with cool Arctic air, Lake Superior, and a few wrenches thrown in we could be in for a doozy, good for some, maybe not so delightful for others.

I myself love a good snowstorm and a winter to remember. Winter is magical and it’s what makes the Upper Peninsula the U.P. we love so much, without winter it just wouldn’t be the same. I do understand how some say, “keep it up there”, “you can have it”, “pretty to look at, but not for me”, I do understand, but I don’t fully understand, at least not yet. I haven’t found a winter I didn’t like, even last year with our lack of snow, I still found it beautiful and enjoyable, even with the lack of that white gold.

So far most if not all snow stations in the Upper Peninsula are ahead of last season snow totals as of now and it appears that it might stay that way for most of them until the last snowflake falls in April or May.

Today’s measurable snow was super light and easy to shovel it was like lifting air, I think, I haven’t lifted air before so I really wouldn’t know, but I know it was light, much lighter than the snow we saw a few days ago.

I drove through the heaviest snowfall I’ve seen for about 4 years here in the U.P. I was going to drive up to Toivola for a LIVE drive on facebook but I only got a few miles outside of Painesdale before I decided to turn back, snow was just to heavy and I didn’t have a purpose other than to show how much snow was out in Toivola. I decided it was safer to just turn around, plus you really couldn’t see much of anything as well. To watch the video you can watch it here.

I am hoping that tomorrow if time allows I will be able to get up to the Twin Lakes and Toivola area to do a LIVE video on facebook.

Tomorrow should have some good snow totals. The snowbands are slamming the Keweenaw and Munising area tonight. Let’s just hope there isn’t much of a warmup early next week and we don’t see rain which is expected Monday before it cools off again Tuesday with another lake effect snow blast starting Wednesday.

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Most snowfall Dec 10: Ontonagon with 7.3 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 72.4 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Loved how the snow was clinging to the tree branches today after a little light rain froze last night and some light fluffy snow accumulated across the Keweenaw.

Just going to post the snow totals for today and not do much of a write up today. Just another day of some light snow a lot fluffier than the previous day. Today things were really crusty and snow that was soft yesterday got hardened so if you didn’t clean up your driveway with all the soft slushy snow you really had a mess to deal with.

Most snowfall happened where I was saying it would in yesterday’s update around the Keweenaw, a few areas in Marquette county and over by the Soo. Other places only saw a trace to a few tenths of an inch many no snow accumulations at all.

Some places down off of Lake Michigan shoreline don’t even have any snow on the ground, but perhaps these strong NW and N winds will be able to drive down a little left over lake effect snowfall.

We should see some strong lake effect snow bands through the Keweenaw from Painesdale to Calumet, the Michigamme highlands, and Marquette county and Alger county line to Shingleton area, even over towards H77.

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Most snowfall Dec 9: Soo Airport with 3.9 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 66.2 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Another storm coming Wednesday After a warmer day on Sunday we saw some snow and rain move into the Upper Peninsula in the evening hours and early morning Monday. Snow eventually made way to light rain and temperature increases that quickly made backroads soft and mushy, work crews were out getting the mess cleaned up pretty quickly by late morning.

We should have a day of light snowfall across the northern half of the Upper Peninsula on Tuesday but it is a different story come Wednesday when some brisk NW winds move in which should bring some nice heavy lake effect snow across the NW snowbelts. Heavier snowfall looks to be in the upper elevations from Twin lakes to Calumet, upper regions of western Marquette county, and just east of Munising.

Winter Storm Watch has been issued for
Gogebic and Ontonagon counties starting at midnight CST, and for
Houghton, Baraga, and Keweenaw counties starting at 7 AM EST.
Snowfall is expected to exceed one inch per hour in the heaviest
bands late Tuesday to late Wednesday.

Temperatures will stick around the mid 20s Tuesday and into Wednesday with a dip into the teens and some possible single digits by Thursday night into early Friday morning. Don’t expect temperatures to stay cool long but returning to above normal late weekend which could make things a little mushy once again.

Snowmobile clubs took the day off from grooming as the conditions weren’t ripe for grooming with the rain and warmer temps making for some mushy conditions along with some exposed water holes and also some rock and bare dirt has been exposed as a result of that. With the snowstorm coming Wednesday it should help cover up some of the barespots, also the cold temps Thursday and Friday should help a bit. I am just hoping that they stay in decent condition over the weekend into early next week as temps might creep back up above freezing again.

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Most snowfall Dec 8: Painesdale with 6.5 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 64.3 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Today's Notes: Below you'll find the snow totals for Dec 7th.

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Most snowfall Dec 7: Soo Airport with 6.9 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Soo Airport with 59.9 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Today's Notes: Below you'll find the snow totals for Dec 6th.

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Most snowfall Dec 6: Herman and Pickford both with 4 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Munising with 58.5 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Today's Notes: Below you'll find the snow totals for Dec 5th.

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Most snowfall Dec 5: Clarksburg and Three Lakes (RuthLake) both with 3 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 57.5 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Today's Notes:

Half way to 100 inches

Well that happened pretty fast, we’ve hit 50+ inches of snow at a handful of weather stations today. Even though many stations saw their first snowfall around Halloween it wasn’t until around the middle of November when we started seeing a few more inches and it wasn’t until this past week that we really saw the landscape looking like winter was here to stay.

After a windy and cold day yesterday it was nice to have a day of calm winds and some a few rays of sunshine with some blue skies about mid afternoon.

Warmup coming

This coming weekend we will see temperatures getting into the upper 30s and possibly touching the low 40s Sunday and Monday, even a chance of rain.

I saw a few people on rooftops around the Houghton and Calumet area today shoveling roofs off, with all the snow and winds it has gotten a little thick up on some roofs and with the warmup coming it is a good idea to get them shoveled off. If you don’t keep up on the snow on the roofs it could lead to a roof collapse especially when we see heavier wet snow and then warmer temps which adds moisture to the snow, then freezes, bad things can happen.

Snowmobile trails are pretty thin yet, around the Keweenaw in Houghton, Hancock, and Calumet I’ve measured trail depth from 6 inches in Houghton along trail 3, Hancock trail 17 was 5-8 inches deep, and 7-9 inches deep on trail 17 near Swedetown and also by Calumet Lake.

There are a lot of wet spots across the snowmobile trails as the ground is still wet and what ice has formed is very thin yet, some places are muddy too with sleds going over them. Overall conditions are early season riding with hazards but rideable especially areas north of M28 across the Upper Peninsula.

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Most snowfall Dec 4: Herman with 11 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Painesdale with 53.5 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Today's Notes: More snow, are you sick of it yet? Not me, I enjoy a good snowstorm and extreme winter conditions, I think that should be evident to most if you have been following my winter videos for the last 12 years. I look forward to winter like a lot of other winter enthusiasts, there is just something special about a good snowstorm and whiteout conditions that you just can’t explain to someone who has never experienced a good snowstorm. Our snowstorms here in the U.P. are pretty small and uneventful compared to places out west, but certain areas of the U.P. can hold their own.

The Keweenaw is almost always one of the snowiest places east of the Rockies in the lower 48. Imagine for a moment what life was like back many thousands of years when the Huron Mountains and the tip of the Keweenaw had some of the tallest mountains in the world, what kind of snow amounts did they see? I can’t even begin to imagine myself, but it would have been fun to experience, well maybe.

This last week brought us some good snow totals to start off the winter and tonight continues more rounds of lake effect after a couple days of calm winds and very light snow flurries.

Overnight there was a bit of freezing drizzle that made the roadways pretty slick and left a nice sheet of ice on top of the freshly fallen snow. The freezing drizzle left the trees and an object that was exposed outdoors with a layer of ice on it. With the wind blowing the tree branches around in the woods it was like thousands of wind chimes blowing around as the icy branches hit each other.

I want to write some more but I am getting tired sitting here at 130am. I have some videos and pictures I want to post for you to see from earlier today so may make a separate post on that After measuring snow and doing snow removal today I went sledding with a friend and then we took some wind measurements in the Keweenaw at a couple spots.

The lake effect snow banding can be seen tonight slamming parts of Marquette, Alger, and Schoolcraft counties. Unfortunately radar doesn’t pick up lake effect snow bands in much of Baraga, any of Houghton or Keweenaw, and much of Ontonagon county.

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Most snowfall Dec 3: Herman with 8.3 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Grand Marais with 47.5 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Today's Notes: Below you'll find the snow totals for Dec 2nd.

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Most snowfall Dec 2: Clarksburg with 9 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Grand Marais with 44 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Today's Notes: Below you'll find the snow totals for Dec 1st.

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Most snowfall Dec 1: Munising with 10.3 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Soo Airport with 42.5 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Today's Notes: Below you'll find the snow totals for Nov 30th.

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Most snowfall Nov 30th: Grand Marais (Haven loc) with 10 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Soo Airport with 42.0 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Soo Airport with 15.7 inches (11.30.24)


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Today's Notes: Below you'll find the snow totals for Nov 29th.

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Most snowfall Nov 29th: Grand Marais (Haven loc) with 12 inches (11.28.24)
Most snowfall, season to date: Soo Airport with 34.4 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Grand Marais (Haven loc) with 12 inches (11.28.24)


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Today's Notes: Below you'll find the snow totals for Nov 26th-28th.

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Most snowfall Nov 28th: Grand Marais (Haven loc) with 12 inches (11.28.24)
Most snowfall, season to date: Calumet/Tamarack loc with 23.9 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Grand Marais (Haven loc) with 12 inches (11.28.24)


Most snowfall Nov 27th: L'Anse with 5.5 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Calumet/Tamarack loc with 17.4 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Calumet/Tamarack loc with 7.5 inches (11.25.24)


Most snowfall Nov 26th: Soo East with 3.7 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Calumet/Tamarack loc with 17 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Calumet/Tamarack loc with 7.5 inches (11.25.24)


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Today's Notes: Welcome back to winter snowfall updates. I am excited for winter and I hope you are as well, we are due for a good one.

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If you were waiting for winter to arrive, I can confidently say that this snow will be staying on the ground now until spring melt off. I know many are excited for winter, especially the businesses who suffered this last winter with only a few weeks of actual normal winter like conditions. This year will be different, we are back into our normal cyclic weather patterns now, 10 year cycles with 6 or 7 of them really snowy and cold and two back to back warmer than usual winters and a year of mixed type of winter. This year we are in for a good snowy and cold winter. Last really cold winter that many people remember was the winter of 2013/14 when Lake Superior still had ice on it in the middle of June, we saw some national coverage on the news about it. We had nearly 100% ice coverage (95.74%), but that isn’t the only year in the last 10 years where Lake Superior almost reached 100% ice coverage. We saw two more since then, one being the following winter of 2014/15 and then in 2018/19.

2014/15 - ice coverage 95.58%
2018/19 - ice coverage 94.91%

You can see just how long ice coverage was at 90% , pretty incredible.

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With these years of Lake Superior being almost 100% ice covered the snowfall amounts are pretty impressive, maybe I will do a post just on that subject of ice coverage to snowfall amounts in the last 10 years.

It is time to get the snow tires on, your skis waxed, snowshoes out, and finally pull out your winter clothing and accessories because winter is here to stay now.

We will see some decent snow Thanksgiving night across most of the Upper Peninsula and into the weekend. It shouldn’t be as sloppy as these last few days.

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Most snowfall Nov 25th: Calumet/Tamarack loc with 7.5 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Calumet/Tamarack loc with 14.8 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Calumet/Tamarack loc with 7.5 inches (10.31.24)


Most snowfall Nov 24th: Calumet/Tamarack loc with 3.3 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Herman with 10 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Herman with 4 inches (11.20.24)


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Today's Notes:

First widespread snowfall for the Upper Peninsula. It always seems to come around Halloween around here. It was wet and sticky snowman building type snow that melted pretty fast as it hit the ground in some of the lower elevations and those in the higher elevations still have a little on the ground today. I've been behind on getting the new website pages redesigned and databases updated for snow content as I am still doing some much needed things before the winter really sets. I'll be updating the snow totals here on a daily basis through the winter with snow totals but like the last 2 years they will first be sent to Subscribers on the FunintheUP Substack list, you can become a subscriber and get the snow totals and other posts emailed to you before they appear on the website. Once I get in the groove of winter I will write a bit more as of now I have a lot to take care of before the snow really starts flying.

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Most snowfall Oct 31st: Calumet/Tamarack loc with 3.3 inches
Most snowfall, season to date: Calumet/Tamarack loc with 3.3 inches
Biggest 24hr total this season: Calumet/Tamarack loc with 3.3 inches (10.31.24)


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