Good day to you friend, winter is here again in the Upper Peninsula, are you ready for another snowy and cold winter? Snowfall is a big part of life in the Upper Peninsula and very memorable, we Yoopers love to talk about how much snow we get each winter. This is the 15th year of snowfall reports on FunintheUP.com, thanks for following the snowfall page!
Thousands of people follow from all 50 states and people from all over the world follow FunintheUP Snowfall Reports all winter. The snowfall totals are used by snowmobilers, news stations, emergency personnel, city officials, road crews, skiers, snowboarders, groomers, ski resorts. The most snow for 2023/24 was at the Calumet Tamarack loation snow station with 173 inches of snow you can view last years snow totals here. Begin looking at the 2024/25 winter season snowfall totals below along with other snowfall data and info.
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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.
Today's Notes:
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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Today's Notes:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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