U.P. Snow Totals Dec 8th

Next snowstorm is coming Wednesday

Above: Calumet/Tamarack weather station snowfall 12.9.24

Another storm coming Wednesday

After a warmer day on Sunday we saw some snow and rain move into the Upper Peninsula in the evening hours and early morning Monday. Snow eventually made way to light rain and temperature increases that quickly made backroads soft and mushy, work crews were out getting the mess cleaned up pretty quickly by late morning.

We should have a day of light snowfall across the northern half of the Upper Peninsula on Tuesday but it is a different story come Wednesday when some brisk NW winds move in which should bring some nice heavy lake effect snow across the NW snowbelts. Heavier snowfall looks to be in the upper elevations from Twin lakes to Calumet, upper regions of western Marquette county, and just east of Munising.

Winter Storm Watch has been issued for
Gogebic and Ontonagon counties starting at midnight CST, and for
Houghton, Baraga, and Keweenaw counties starting at 7 AM EST.
Snowfall is expected to exceed one inch per hour in the heaviest
bands late Tuesday to late Wednesday. 

Temperatures will stick around the mid 20s Tuesday and into Wednesday with a dip into the teens and some possible single digits by Thursday night into early Friday morning. Don’t expect temperatures to stay cool long but returning to above normal late weekend which could make things a little mushy once again.

Snowmobile clubs took the day off from grooming as the conditions weren’t ripe for grooming with the rain and warmer temps making for some mushy conditions along with some exposed water holes and also some rock and bare dirt has been exposed as a result of that. With the snowstorm coming Wednesday it should help cover up some of the barespots, also the cold temps Thursday and Friday should help a bit. I am just hoping that they stay in decent condition over the weekend into early next week as temps might creep back up above freezing again.

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