Good snowy morning everyone.

Not too often I get to start the daily blog. Just sitting here on break at work. I had to drive in to work for midnight shift in the middle of this snow storm we're having in the Detroit/Windsor area. And pretty much most of the north eastern U.S.

It's hard to tell how much snow we really have, because of the drifting. Some areas it's only a few inches. Other areas it's over a foot.

Driving in to work at 11:00 last night was interesting. Lots of fun driving the Monte in this snow. Woo! What a ride!

 

Mornin' folks!

We got plenty of snow here in London, tho not enough to shut anything down. I had done a pretty good shoveling job last night and expected to only need to remove some light fresh powder this morning. But no. The roads were beautifully plowed. And I think the guy dumped all the snow from the street right at the end of my laneway. And that's the heavy stuff - that's the stuff that'll break my back again. I gotta get at it so my wife can get to work - this is going to suck...

 

Morning!

So far we had some rain and then it switched to snow.

Yesterday morning I had to replaced the driver side brake line on the wife's impala (went well until the bleed screw broke on the caliper). Luckily, I got to do that while there was no snow or rain and the temp was warm enough the snow was melting. So working on this outside was not horrible (I call that luck this time of year).

 

Morning guys.

We got absolutely clobbered with the snow here in Michigan. We're under a code yellow here in Washtenaw County. Quite a few areas in southern Michigan reporting snow totals of 15-20" which, for southern Michigan, is pretty amazing. I think we ended up with somewhere around 12" but haven't seen anything official for us yet. We'll deal with some lake effect snow today.

Snowfall reports in Michigan
Values are from the National Weather Service and are from the Jan. 4-5 storm. Blue are 17+ inches.

Allegan County
Martin 13.0”
Otsego 11.0”

Bay County
Bay City 7.0"

Calhoun County
Battle Creek 11.0”
Marshall 17.0”

Clinton County
DeWitt 16.0”

Eaton County
Bellevue 15.0”
Eaton Rapids 15.0"
Dimondale 13.3”
Grand Ledge 14.4"

Genesee County
Flint 17.1” (#3 heaviest snowfall)
Flushing 14.5"
Linden 16.0”
Swartz Creek 18.0”

Ingham County
Haslett 18.0”
Lansing 15.0”
Mason 14.6"
Okemos 14.0”

Isabella County
Mt. Pleasant 3.9”

Kalamazoo County
Augusta 17.0"
Kalamazoo 11.8”
Oshtemo 14.0”
Portage 13.0"

Kent County
E. Grand Rapids 8.5"

Lapeer County
North Branch 17.0”

Lenawee County
Morenci 12.0"

Livingston County
Brighton 13.0”
Howell 15.9”
Fowlerville 17.5”

Mecosta County
Big Rapids 8.4”

Midland County
Midland 6.0”

Monroe County
Monroe 9.8”

Oakland County
Clarkston 15.3"
Farmington Hills 13.2"
Lake Orion 12.9"
Waterford 14.5”
White Lake 14.6"

Saginaw County
Birch Run 11.0"
Bridgeport 9.3”
Saginaw 8.4"

Sanilac County
Peck 16.0”

Shiawassee County
Corunna 16.0"
Owosso 18.7”

St. Clair County
Port Huron 10.6"

Van Buren County
Mattawan 13.0”
Paw Paw 13.0"

Washtenaw County
Ann Arbor 10.4"
Chelsea 14.0”

Wayne County
Dearborn 7.8”
Detroit 10.6" (#24 heaviest snowfall)
Wyandotte 9.9”

Current snow cover



Current radar

 

Good morning everyone!

Check this out! The Lake effect snow storm in Michigan was so powerful last night, It formed a Funnel cloud over Lake Michigan! Now that a strong strong strong Snow Storm!!



That System is moving off to the east bringing Mostly rain to the east coast due to the warmer air it moved into, But don't let that fool you, behind it is some frigged temps!

Here is current radar:



This is current Wind chill! All that cold air is moving East, so get ready east coast!



Here is weather for today:


Here is what we have so far for Snowfall totals of this Winter Storm. More will get added throughout the day:

Iowa

• 6" near Burlington
• 5.5" near Keokuk
• 4.5" near Fort Madison

Kansas

• 5.0" in Baldwin City
• 4.0" in Olathe
• 3.2" in Manhattan

Oklahoma

• 5.0" in Bartlesville
• up to 3.0" in Ponca City
• up to 1.0" in Tulsa

Missouri

• 13.5" in Festus
• 12.5" in St. Louis
• 11.3" in Farmington

Illinois

• 14.5" in Glen Carbon
• 13.5" in Chicago
• 12.0" in Granite City

Arkansas

• up to 5.0" in Bella Vista
• 3.0" in Bentonville

Indiana

• 14.7" near Columbia City
• 13.5" in Marion
• 10.5" at Indianapolis International Airport

Michigan

• 19.0" in Coldwater
• 12.0"in Lansing
• 5" at Detroit International Airport

Ohio

• 8.0" in Coldwater
• 7.0" in Defiance
• up to 6.0" in Toledo

 

Hi 'Taz,(& 'all), It's great to see you posting the MCF 'Blog
+ being able to post more on the forum.

* I was at the Port all eve & this morning ready to depart, but our departure was delayed because of a shipment from up north has not arrived due to the bad weather. I'm now on standby back at the warehouses & was able to reconnect Space's puter to jump online.

I was going to complain & then I watched the national news & weather report on how many people that are affected by this massive cold front . It's great to see member's posting today from the snow belt states .

I don't like waiting to depart, but realize that things could be much worse. The truck with equipment is projected to get here this afternoon (hopefully), & then I'm `off (Yes, I know that I'm already 'off: ).

I want to depart b-4 the cold front hits Florida 2morrow. >lol<
Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 Spacecoast NASA

OvernightTemperature: 28° FA mix of cloudy and clear skies. Windy at times. Tuesday MorningTemperature: 34°FA mix of cloud and sun. Windy at times.

That's cold 4 Florida > feel like temp's in the 12's WoW.

I think Mother Nature is unhappy about the way that we are treating `Earth (?) or maybe just a reminder to thank her when the sunshine appears & warms our days >'life.

Wish 'all a safe/warm day/'life...Peace/Out Bum 'Mike

p.s. Thanks Mod'David for your kind words...Your words paint a nice picture of you

 

Had Mr. Adrien out last night! He's pushing the 7 feet mark!

 

^ Hi 'Devin, That's a beautiful Big SNAKE (WoW)...I'm not in2 big snakes & the islands I'm going to has many according to one of the faxes I got from 'Space
Below is the size I think I could handle (LOL)...I'd be afraid of the one U have



Below is

The ferde-lance is the most feared snake in the islands….maybe in the world.

www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/75128/fer-de-lance‎ <Click 4 more 'infor

Any of several extremely venomous snakes of the viper family (Viperidae) found in diverse habitats from cultivated lands to forests throughout tropical America ..
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**> 'Devin, would U want one of the above ? > I don't, but I may ship U one 'if Space catches it (LOL)

 

Good morning everyone, I'm not feeling well at all. Had a pretty bad weekend, and had to go into work because I need to get a lot done. Im' hoping that I can work from home tomorrow.
We are getting cold cold temps, the coldest we have had in 20 years