U.P. Snow totals are back!

Snow for Thanksgiving and into weekend.

Nov 27, 2024

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.

Thank you for being a subscriber to the FunintheUP Yooper Report, thank you for being part of these updates. I also want to give an extra thanks to those who are paying subscribers as you folks are the ones who help ensure that these snowfall reports and fall color reports can continue.

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Winter is here to stay

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. Graphic below for ice in 13/14.

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.

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.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all and thanks again for supporting FunintheUP since 2010 when it was just me posting a few pictures here and there.