U.P. Snow Totals Dec 4th

More lake effect continues into weekend

Half way to 100 inches

Well that happened pretty fast, we’ve hit 50+ inches of snow at a handful of weather stations today. Even though many stations saw their first snowfall around Halloween it wasn’t until around the middle of November when we started seeing a few more inches and it wasn’t until this past week that we really saw the landscape looking like winter was here to stay.

After a windy and cold day yesterday it was nice to have a day of calm winds and some a few rays of sunshine with some blue skies about mid afternoon.

Houghton and Hancock 12.5.24

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Warmup coming

This coming weekend we will see temperatures getting into the upper 30s and possibly touching the low 40s Sunday and Monday, even a chance of rain.

I saw a few people on rooftops around the Houghton and Calumet area today shoveling roofs off, with all the snow and winds it has gotten a little thick up on some roofs and with the warmup coming it is a good idea to get them shoveled off. If you don’t keep up on the snow on the roofs it could lead to a roof collapse especially when we see heavier wet snow and then warmer temps which adds moisture to the snow, then freezes, bad things can happen.

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Snowmobile trails are pretty thin yet, around the Keweenaw in Houghton, Hancock, and Calumet I’ve measured trail depth from 6 inches in Houghton along trail 3, Hancock trail 17 was 5-8 inches deep, and 7-9 inches deep on trail 17 near Swedetown and also by Calumet Lake.

There are a lot of wet spots across the snowmobile trails as the ground is still wet and what ice has formed is very thin yet, some places are muddy too with sleds going over them. Overall conditions are early season riding with hazards but rideable especially areas north of M28 across the Upper Peninsula.

Snow totals for Dec 4th snowfall below.