U.P. Totals Jan 31/Feb1/2

Winter Carnival at Michigan Tech is this week

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Above: ice arch and tunnel on Lake Superior near Copper Harbor - 2.1.25

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Not a lot of snow over the last few days but most areas across the U.P. have seen at least 1-5 inches. The Garden Peninsula to St. Ignace has finally saw a few inches of lake effect due to a SE wind off of Lake Michigan. Surprisingly even with the SE winds much of the U.P. saw snow from it I think it was from the warmer air aloft and strong winds that carried the light crystalline snow northward.

The next couple days we should see a few light flurries, as of tonight a couple inches has fallen in the NW snowbelts as wind picked up today from some cooler Arctic air moving in tonight bringing in about 1”/hr snow rates for a short period.

Temperatures have really dropped to from mid teens earlier today into the single digits and should stay that way throughout the day tomorrow across much of the Upper Peninsula. Expect a break in the snow flurries for most of Tuesday and into the early morning hours of Wed. We will see NW winds shifting into a westerly then into south winds Wednesday afternoon which should bring some warmer air into the region, temps should reach into the low to mid 20s before dropping back into the single digits late Thursday evening.

It appears with the gulf moisture coming into the lower Great Lakes that will hinder the amount of snowfall we see across the Upper Peninsula on Wednesday into Thursday morning. A bit of moisture coming across from the mountain west could bring in the moisture we need for some snow to develop, but again don’t expect a lot of out this system. Most probable areas to see more than 5 or 6 inches of snow would be Painesdale into the Keweenaw spine.

MTU Winter Carnival 2025

Stay tuned to the NWS Marquette website for updates if you are going to be traveling up to Houghton for Winter Carnival 2025, with the high winds and light snow it could get a little blustery out there on the roads Wednesday into Thursday.

You will want to see the snow statues if you haven’t ever, the students at MTU do a great job every year and this year there is plenty of good snow and it has been cold for statue building. Check out the Winter Carnival website for happenings this week.

MTU Winter Carnival 2023 - funintheup photo

MTU Winter Carnival 2012 - funintheup photo

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