U.P. Snow Totals Dec 16/17/18

Snow outlook not looking good for end of December

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.

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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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