U.P SNOW REPORT

[Doc Harley]

John who? Haha....while I enjoy going to his sight. I wouldn't plan a trip around his forecast.

I think cause if you look at the 5-10 day Outlook he always shows 24"+ in the peninsula. Then I start checking off the calendar to find only 6" came in that time period. Lol! It's all good.

 

[Deeppow16]

Yeah I think he doesn't really know what he is doing. I feel the same as you. According to his forecast I should have over a foot of snow at my house but don't have enough to cover the grass. It gives me hope though but it usually gets crushed.

 

[Carbide]

I think it's no different than the "professional" weather guessers dilemma. It is just plain difficult to forcast lake effect snows.
It would be nice if they would just admit it!

I recall many years ago we were staying in Ironwood and the guesser inside the tv said "well we might get a light dusting overnight."
We woke up to over 15"...

 

[Deeppow16]

I think it's no different than the "professional" weather guessers dilemma. It is just plain difficult to forcast lake effect snows.
It would be nice if they would just admit it!

I recall many years ago we were staying in Ironwood and the guesser inside the tv said "well we might get a light dusting overnight."
We woke up to over 15"...

I would rather have them say we aren't going to get much or any at all then to say we are going to get a bunch and then nothing happens and my hopes get crushed. That's what pisses me off. I understand that lake effect can get hard to figure out but normal weather systems they should be able to do a better job. How come it always seems like they are always right about rain in the summer time a week out but can predict weather 12 hrs out in the winter?

 

[Carbide]

I can't disagree. I'd love to have a job where I have millions of dollars worth of toys to play with and in the end you could've just flipped a coin, and everyone has to accept that.

 

[Deeppow16]

That's what I don't understand. They have all this high tech stuff to use and they suck at there job. If I sucked at my job that much I would have gotten the boot a long time ago. They only thing they are somewhat ok at is tell what the temp will be give or take a few degrees.

 

[Doc Harley]

Snowmobiling is definitely a heartbreaker. Take the time off work, get super stoked, only to find it's a bust. No snow.
I'm surprised more of us aren't found in a horizontal position suffering from self inflicted wounds.

I think there's just enough up there now. But you know what they say, more is better!

 

[Deeppow16]

Yup I stress way too much over the weather during the winter time. That's probably because the winter time is my favorite time of the year and I live to go sledding. There just something about snowmobiling that I don't feel when I do other powersports things. I enjoy going atving but its not the same as jumping on mu sled and going for rip.

 

[Carbide]

I was happy with what we had on the trails up there last weekend.

 

[Deeppow16]

That looks pretty good!

 

[sxr70001]

I just got this in my email. Hopefully someone can use the information.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MIDNR/bulletins/1cdf3b9

 

[Mileage Quest]

I just got this in my email. Hopefully someone can use the information.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MIDNR/bulletins/1cdf3b9

This impacts a few main areas especially near Lake Gogebic!!!

 

[ishpeming fan]

Rich Kay, have you been around bigbay or Amasa areas yet? just wondering what the conditions are in the general Ishpeming area because we have A group comming up Jan 10th through the weekend and I was hoping we dont have to cancel to go further north to find good trails.

 

[Doc Harley]

LES is covering 90% of the peninsula at some point today. At least that's what my radar is showing.

 

[Rich Kay]

Rich Kay, have you been around bigbay or Amasa areas yet? just wondering what the conditions are in the general Ishpeming area because we have A group comming up Jan 10th through the weekend and I was hoping we dont have to cancel to go further north to find good trails.

No I have not , but would not be too worried as I know they are snow covered and getting more. Very cold temps coming as I right this with LE snows!