Brown Winter: Michigan’s snowiest city nearly 5 feet behind on snowfall - MLive.com

Brown Winter: Michigan’s snowiest city nearly 5 feet behind on snowfall - mlive.com

We all know it hasn’t been much of a winter. Between the unseasonably warm stretches and lack of storm systems brining heavy snowfall, some people already are referring to this as Michigan’s “lost winter.”

Here’s a look at how far down the snowfall tally is for this season:

All Michigan cities are running well behind normal for total snowfall so far this winter. One of the most remarkable slim-pickings on snowfall is from our snowiest bigger city: Marquette. Marquette is a few inches shy of 5 feet below normal on snow this winter.
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Marquette is 58 inches below normal on snowfall for the season. Gaylord is one of the snowiest Lower Michigan cities and it is 47 inches below normal. The southwestern snowbelts of Lower Michigan are also way behind on snow in comparison to typical seasonal snowfall. Kalamazoo, Muskegon, and Grand Rapids are 2 to 3 feet behind average for this winter’s snow.

Traverse City had had 18 inches less snow than a typical winter to this point.

Southern Michigan is about one foot lower than average on winter snowfall.

Many of our locations are about 40% to 50% below the normal snowfall levels.

Since we don’t all live in the big cities, here’s a nice map of the snowfall across Michigan so far this winter.
Total snowfall so far this season.NOAA

We still have the typical heavier snowfall areas of the snowbelts. We just don’t have the normal amount of snow.

In looking at the weather pattern for the next two weeks at least, we will continue to increase our below-normal amount of snow across all of Michigan.

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