Posted on 11/04/2021 8:58:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
The first significant lake-effect snow of the season dropped nearly a foot of snow near the shores of the Great Lakes Tuesday into Wednesday. The snowfall was enough to transform parts of Michigan's Lower Peninsula into a winter wonderland and break into the record books at one weather station in Michigan.
Snow totals topped 11 inches in northern parts of northern Michigan. Gaylord, Michigan, picked up 11.7 inches of snow on Tuesday, which set a record for the heaviest snowfall in a calendar day in November. That amount also ranked as the sixth highest single-day snowfall in any month. Records have been kept at the National Weather Service (NWS) office there since 1998. Into Wednesday, temperatures remained in the low to mid-30s in Gaylord, as snow flurries continued to fall. The average high temperature there at this time of year is 47 degrees Fahrenheit, but temperatures couldn't make it above the mid-30s Tuesday and Wednesday, though the area was poised for a rebound in the days ahead, according to the AccuWeather forecast.
This is just the beginning of what could be a blockbuster lake-effect snow season, according to AccuWeather forecasters. With few cold outbreaks in October, each of the Great Lakes has a fever, so to speak. With water temperatures several degrees above normal, most of the lakes have set new records for this time of year according to NOAA CoastWatch, which maintains records back to 1995.
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Trump told the AH that runs CA it will get cooler.
Snow, in northern MI, in November.
We’ve never seen it in history.
Friends in South Carolina had a point of land on Lake Murray, SC. Beautiful spot full of pines and pine needles. They got struck by lightning and it burned to ashes in a New York minute.
“… Very warm Great Lakes translate into lots of lake effect. Always.”
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Yes, as long as it coincides with cold enough ambient air temperatures. By the way, how do you determine what the keywords are for a thread?
It’s going to get a lot hotter, better get out your heavy coat.
Just below the article is a section for keywords.
Anyone can enter them and many times people will make snarky remarks in the keyword line that they won’t post on the open forum.
Yes, the temperature difference is the key for snowfall rates, but considering the air is polar out of Canada, it gets pretty cold.
Not to mention that this mild sunny weather is forecast to hold for another week.
The longer we have a warmer than usual fall, the greater the temperature difference will be when the cold air does hit. And I just have this sense that when it changes, it’s going to happen fast.
Ahhh, thanks for ‘splaining it. I didn’t see that.
This summer in MI was not all that hot but it has been slow to cool down this fall...BFD!
Ours was not particularly hot either, but the cool down has been slow and the amount of sunlight plays a role as well. Keeps warming the water so the usual heat loss isn’t quite as much.
Too early for the Gordo reference.
On the weather news, we had 2” snow yesterday morning. I used bad words as I checked the 4-wheel drive on my antique car. Yep, good for another winter.
Heck, Upstate NY had 30 inches fall one day just last December. It snows in the Winter in the Northeast. Some years more than others.
Syracuse on average gets much more snow than Buffalo. Buffalo is actually north of the snow belt. Orchard Park, NY(where the Buffalo Bills play) is where the snow starts to get heavy. From there down to the PA border is the snow belt off of Lake Erie.
Syracuse up to Watertown, NY is the lake effect area downwind from Lake Ontario. The worst area is from Oswego around the east end of the lake to the Tug Hill Plateau(directly east).
The big difference in WNY is that USUALLY Lake Erie freezes over almost every year. Last year it did not. Once the lake freezes over. The lake effect stops. However, back in 1976/1977 Lake Erie froze over earlier than ever before. Snow built up on the ice and then a blizzard hit in January. The wind blew in excess of 70 mph. It took all the snow that piled up on the lake and blew it into the city of Buffalo to an average depth of 3’. In places it drifted over 10’. I was 14 years old living in Orchard Park. School was closed for a week.
Conditions were so bad they called on people who owned snow mobiles to help with emergency services. I recall being on the back of my buddies Arctic Cat sled going down a 4 lane road. We went over a bump looked back and realized we had just gone over a buried car.
I grew up in Orchard Park and then went to Syracuse University. So, I went from one snowy place to another really snowy place. I had a buddy in college who grew up in Lowville, NY on the edge of the Tug Hill Plateau. I think that is one of snowiest places in the lower 48. That and the UP of MI.
What a dope!
Gaylord is in the center of the state...
Nowhere near the lakes...
These people amaze me with their incompetence..
I wonder how many will buy into this crap?
Thanks for the lesson and insights! I lived in Fayetteville only one year, so didn’t understand all that when I lived there. We were in Ithaca for five years before Fayetteville and Utica for four years before that. Then I went to high school and college in Missouri before decamping for sunny and warm California.
I worked in Canton, Ohio the winter of ‘76-’77 and lived in Massillon. I remember that blizzard well because I drove to work through some drifted in cuts in the road and high winds blowing my car all over on the back roads. When I got to work, the lot was empty which I thought was off. I walked in and the guard asked “What are you doing here?” I told him it was a workday and I was there to work. He said “We are closed - go home.” I had been working in the big mountains of the west for several years and was used to REAL serious snow conditions, so I didn’t think that much of the blizzard in Ohio. I never listened to the radio or watched TV before work, so I didn’t have a clue that work would get a snow day!
Ice on my pond this morning, just like every winter of my 72 years on Earth.
It’s going to take a heck of a heatwave to burn me out of here in 9.4 years, or whatever the “science kids” are touting today.
“There as snow in the Rockies in September.“
Yep, I’ve hiked through it!
Also on Pikes Peak in middle of June.
Lake effect precipitation lasts until the relevant lake is mostly frozen over. That never happens in November. Until it does happen, a few degrees in temperature makes no difference.
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