I just hope this means more snow in Southeast Michigan. Something like a few days of 2" per day, then a decent dusting every night, would be excellent. With many of us looking for nice outdoor activities during COVID times, thus far it's been an awful winter.
We got a bit of snow, then some rain, and all the packed snow on trails and paths where people walk, hike, run, and bike have become sheets of ice. Snow is great for outdoor winter stuff, but ice is really hard to deal with.
I'm curious to see what happens, but so far this winter has been _mild_ to say the least. Current forecast calls for 40+ on Wednesday and Thursday which is very-not-January-like.
A good snow would totally be fun, though. I just got new boots, too!
Hopefully it means more snow in Utah. It's been very dry this year, which means summer will be very dry and hot since there won't be much mountain melt run-off.
I'll pray to the weather gods to send whatever snow would have come to the Puget Sound region of Washington your way.
Snow here sucks, for 4 reasons.
1. More than a couple inches on the ground is rare enough that cities and counties do not have a lot of snow clearing equipment. So when we get one the rare incidents of a foot or more on the ground, it takes forever for the streets to be cleared.
2. Most people aren't familiar with driving on snow, so even when the roads are passable it sucks.
3. People are idiots. As a columnist in the Seattle Times once put it, they will be at the top of a steep hill, have just watched 20 other cars try to make it down and lose control, and think "I've got a Subaru Forester so I'll be fine" and become car #21 in the heap at the bottom.
4. The ground here is relatively warm during the winter. It quickly melts the first layer of snow, which then refreezes as smooth ice sheet when subsequent layers of snow pile up. So where places with cold ground have snow with road underneath, we get snow with an ice sheet underneath between it and the road. We end up with roads that are technically more challenging to drive on, which makes #2 even worse.
Hi neighbor. Hoping for the same thing too! Detroit is probably the worst place to live in all of Michigan if you are someone who enjoys nature and being outside. I’m in the Woodward corridor and can’t wait to get out west into the woods.
I'm, kinda thankfully, about 20 miles north of there so I'm close to a whole bunch of parks. It's still not ideal being the northern suburbs and all, but within 30 minutes drive I've got half a dozen nice green areas, and a few within 10.
We got a bit of snow, then some rain, and all the packed snow on trails and paths where people walk, hike, run, and bike have become sheets of ice. Snow is great for outdoor winter stuff, but ice is really hard to deal with.