U.P. Snow totals March 19th

Snowstorm in the eastern Upper Peninsula

Spring is in the air. Winter is starting to wind down, with days getting warmer and the sunshine starting to shine, and with more daylight to enjoy the best of winter has now passed us by as we move into the green of spring, but not before we see more snow, more on that below.

The snowstorm I thought was going to hit on Monday and Tuesday shifted into Wednesday. All the forecasts had the storm giving western Marquette county and eastern and southern Baraga county the higher snowfall amounts. As the system got closer and the winds grew stronger it shifted more south and further east giving areas from Iron Mountain up to Munising, and over to St. Ignace 4-10 inches of snow. Many of those areas north of M28 had bare ground for a good week already and few small snowbanks left to melt.

It isn’t unusual to see snowflakes this time of the year, into April, and the last snowflakes to fly around Mother’s Day. This year I think will still give us some snow flurries in April and perhaps in May, but overall snow should be very minimal here on out after this next storm coming on Monday.

Tonight as I write this we are seeing snow across the Keweenaw, central UP, and eastern UP, we should wake up with a few inches on the ground. Over the course of late Saturday morning snow flurries should taper off as the next system moving in from the Rockies sets up for Sunday night into Monday which should bring us some larger snow totals in the range of 4-8 inches. There is still a bit of uncertainty to this system it could bring us some freezing rain and a quick switch to snowfall with winds in the south and switching to the north. Most of the UP should see some snow out of this system, back to snow covered lawns and roadways for a few more days.

I’ll have the next update for you late Sunday night, tomorrow I am going winter camping and Sunday on a snowshoe hike and exploring during the day.