Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is your cup
of Traverse City for the 03/20/2026,
and
spring
is going to spring today
at 10:46AM.
Doesn't hardly look like it out there, but,
it's melting. It's all good.
So
I'm gonna do a blizzard post mortem.
Is this Traverse City snowiest snowiest
storm ever?
I don't know. They had a avalanche of
business shutdowns, major thoroughfares like Grandview Parkway, M
72 briefly closed to traffic.
Four consecutive snow days for the local schools
and tens of thousands of Michigan power customers
without electricity.
These are just a few of the impact
impacts
of this week's epic storm.
So that's from the ticker, of course.
It seems to be my go to
for but, you know, it brings up something.
You know, is this bigger than the blizzard
of seventy eight? Well, in some ways, it
is.
Blizzard of seventy eight,
As far as the total amount of snowfall,
I know it was in here somewhere.
Yeah. So the blizzard is 78 went all
the way down to nine hundred and fifty
fifty five millibars in pressure.
That's, the lowest
pressure of any
any storm
ever except for hurricanes.
You know, some
some hurricanes, you know, like a category five
hurricane would
be 920
millibars. We got,
the storm
got down to what was it? But yeah.
Nine fifty five was what the blizzard of
seventy eight was, and this one was a
little higher than that, but I can't find
the right number. It's in the article.
But
by a snowfall,
it actually is,
bigger.
Somewhere in here, they measured the snow and,
it ended up being like 15 inches at
the airport. The official, you know, official amount
of snowfall. Now that doesn't account for the
thirty and forty foot drifts
that we're, around because of the 70 mile
per hour winds. So, yeah, that storm was
definitely impactful and probably a little more impactful
being that, we didn't have the technology we
have now to,
train you know, get around. I mean, think
about it. You know, how many people had
four wheel drives even,
in 1978
versus
now?
You know, almost every car is available as
all wheel drive, and I think most people
drive all wheel drives, you know, at least,
you know, at least around here.
You know, of course, the port post office,
lot most of their little vans are not.
Speaking of which, I haven't had mail,
since last Saturday,
here. But,
that's besides the point.
But we had 19
something inches of snow officially.
19.8
inches of snow officially in Traverse City. Other
parts had more than that, obviously, 24 to
30
inches in the Upper Peninsula.
And there's even, one place that had 52
inches of snow, which is the all time
state record.
It didn't say somewhere in the UP, obviously.
Oh, Munising. That's right. Reported 52 inches of
snow.
Geez.
It's just ridiculous.
You look outside and it's gone down a
lot. My little snow meter in the yard
here had 15,
at the end of this whole thing, fifteen,
sixteen
in that
range. And yesterday, we lost six and, it's
already melted down even more. It was above
freezing all night.
But, yeah, that was
that was something.
But I think it's
on its way out again officially it's spring
here in a couple hours
so that's a good thing.
Snow totals for Traverse City for the season,
it's a 141
inches,
which is,
above normal, obviously. 93.3
is the normal to date, and we are
at a 152%
of normal.
Of course, the record
was ninety five ninety six with a 191.2
inches. I don't think we're gonna get there,
and I'm hoping we don't get any higher
than we are now.
I'm done with it. Hey, you know, I'm
I'm ready for for spring,
to officially have sprung.
So speaking of which, let's take a look
at the weather.
20% chance of snow showers before not snow
showers.
20%
chance of showers,
rain,
to before 2PM. Patchy fog before 1PM.
And I did hear there's some patchy fog
around the South End Of Long Lake.
Where I heard that, I don't remember. But,
anyway, I heard that.
So be careful driving out there,
for fog anyway,
if not sloppy slushy conditions and spots.
Otherwise, it's cloudy then gradually becoming mostly sunny.
High near 44
Southwest wind, five to 10 miles per hour
becoming north in the afternoon.
Alright. Tonight,
mostly cloudy with a low around 28. Northwest
wind around five.
Saturday, mostly cloudy with a high near 45.
South wind around five miles per hour.
Saturday night, a 50% chance of snow showers
mainly before 2AM,
mostly cloudy with a low around thirty three.
South wind around five becoming west after midnight.
Sunday night, a chance of rain showers before
2PM, and then a slight chance of rain
and snow
showers.
There's that word again. Mostly cloudy with a
high near 38.
North wind five to 10 miles per hour.
And Sunday night, mostly cloudy with a low
around 22.
So and then Monday, mostly sunny and slightly
above freezing.
That's your weekend.
Go out there,
and, you know, get out of the house.
For those of us that were snowed in,
my mom was, literally snowed in. She has
storm doors, which
kind of ironic that, caused her to not
be able to get out of the house.
Well, she had one route, but
then you'd have to wade through a bunch
of snow. So she she never left the
house for three days.
But we got her all shoveled and plowed
out,
on Tuesday, I guess.
Maybe Wednesday. I don't remember.
But,
anyway, everybody
have a great weekend.
Happy spring. We'll catch you on Monday.