water, Michigan is not easily susceptible to extreme dryness or extreme
the annual mean, annual maximum, annual minimum, 24 hour maximum, maximum
caused power lines to snap resulting in brief outages.
Traverse City's biggest one day May snow fell on May 14, 1909 when 6.0" fell. Out of the 10 years shown here they had snow in 9 years:
That is 167 consecutive hours or about seven days
Flint tied the record cold average
Daffodils slump under the weight of a few inches of snow in Ann Arbor Monday morning.The last time the Ann Arbor area recorded snow after April 17 was 2005, when about 3 to 4 inches fell on April 24 and 25, Considine said.But it’s not unheard of for southeast Michigan to get blanketed in snow as late as May.“Detroit actually had a 6-inch snowfall May 9 in 1923,” Considine said, “and a 5-inch snowfall May 21 in 1883.” That looks like the heaviest May snow on record in Michigan.What is the latest it has snowed in Michigan?
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. snowfall, and mean snowfall for several selected cities in Michigan. Des Moines, Iowa: Had two separate snows on May 3 and May 15 in 1907, then it snowed again 10 years later on May 3-4, 1917, and the following year on May 13, 1918. maximum temperatures. Snow in April is no stranger to southeast Michigan, but a forecast like today’s, which calls for 2 to 4 inches, this late in the month is definitely not an every-year occurrence. Added
Not for AA, but "Snow is measured near the airport by the Michigan Tech Keweenaw Research Center, in Calumet, MI" (almost the most northern tip of MI), but still.....
consecutive hours, from 0100 EST on the 18th through 1000 EST on the 20th!
Snow has coated the ground in several southern locations during November. This was because the very low wind chills made waiting for the
A comment written in all caps was removed. "From mid-April on, it is somewhat unusual," said Steve Considine, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in White Lake Township.. January 20th. I remember the May snow storm up here in Ontario Canada in 1977. View full sizeThe southern half of Lower Michigan has shoveled snow in May. Some months of course are rarer than others but it has happened. http://wchs.csc.noaa.gov/1816.htmSnowiest Week of the Century February 28 March 6, 1900Much more on this can be found here:
But this storm remains (and will likely remain for quite a while) as the most significant late season snowstorm that lower Michigan has ever witnessed. I am over 55 and it is the only May snow I ever remember and was freaked out by it, as were so many others. All
lower Michigan late on the 13th through the 14th. through midday on the 14th. The storm brought
occurred in Adrian, where 64.01 inches were recorded in 1881. http://detnews.com/history/heat/heat.htmAn arctic air mass of historic proportions settled over the state of
Winter Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. On a list of snowiest U.S. cities with populations greater than 100,000, Michigan has the most with four cities in the top 25. 2001-02 2.50 13.50 71.00 43.00 54.00 62.00 5.50 2.50 254.00 especially in the Upper Peninsula, had whole towns with frozen water pipes
This page was last edited on 14 May 2020, at 16:14 (UTC). All in all, the
Sault Ste Marie fell to 29 below
Apparently it is the only snowfall in May for the 20th Century. amounts ranged from 0.8 to 1.5 inches. I'm not suggesting that we will get snow out of this approaching storm. readings of 20 to 40 below zero were quite common.
2005-06 0.00 36.00 77.50 30.00 49.50 26.50 0.00 0.00 219.50 Jeremy Ecklan, Naperville. thousand residents were without power for as long as 4 days. But, anything can happen with the crazy spring weather we're seeing this year. Paul Gross. The lowest temperature during that time at
A … For the latest breaking news and updates in Ann Arbor and the surrounding area, see Much more on the summer of 1816 can be found here:
But have we ever had snow in May here in southern Michigan?We certainly have. North of Detroit, nearly all of the
to powerlines, falling trees damaged dozens of cars and houses throughout