1 minute ago, herder said:

After reading A-Jays posts I can't really fret about our weather here, but I will 🙃

75 degrees here yesterday, now 36 degrees with snow flurries.

Maybe don't use my local Arctic like weather as a barometer for anything except perhaps Siberia and Crazy Town.

🙃

A-Jay

They are predicting a foot of snow here Sat/sun. That’s more than we’ve had combined since Jan 1.

If this weekend's forecast is even half right,

we are going to get hammered with snow.

Like 1-3 inches an hour type stuff—it's a little nuts.

Not even going to post the NWS graphic.

It's too ugly.

😐

A-Jay

Saturday calling for breezy conditions, high of 57 degrees. I will likely get the boat on the water.

Sunday a low of 6 degrees, with a high of just 34 degrees. Winds gusting to between 50-60 MPH(!), and 1-3 inches of snow. 😶

18 hours ago, A-Jay said:

We're getting blasted again this weekend.

We're in the same boat here, pal

And it's getting worse - they've upped the expected amount for my area to 12"-18" and are issuing blizzard warnings for spots within 30 miles of me.

Well winter finally hit my area. We got 5" of snow at my house. It's widespread across the state. There's blizzard conditions in the mountains, closing all the passes.

It's all good though. It will all go away tomorrow. Temps will be in the 60's later this week.

The cleanup of round one went well.

Standing by for round 2 and this one’s forecast to be a real doozy !

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A-Jay

The snow that fell last night was the wettest snow we've had all season. The snowblower became snowspitter and snowplow.

I am pretty sure that when the local forecast is predicting snow totals using feet instead of inches, we're getting buried.

#snowmagetion2026

☹️

A-Jay

That’s when you feel good about all the $ you spent on the blower.

16 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

The snow that fell last night was the wettest snow we've had all season. The snowblower became snowspitter and snowplow.

That’s what they call heart attack snow. My snow blower struggles with it. Comes out of the chute like ketchup.

25 minutes ago, gim said:

Comes out of the chute like ketchup.

Good way to describe it. Made me laugh!

Yep. That was our last snow storm. It was like trying to move wet sand. My blower couldn’t do it and it was just shutting it down. The impeller just stopped.

It’s cold here, but everything forecast is rain which is good and what we need. An inch and a half over the next 24 hours and 60-65 degrees should eliminate any ice holdouts to the tune of I’m not even going to do any more recon trips. Next trip out will have the boat on the back.

As predicted, Northern Michigan is closed.

Several miles of highway, certainly all the secondary roads

and everything that is run by people.

(except my snowblower of course.)

Although it's hard to know for sure with the overnight 40-plus mph winds and drifting that caused.

I'd say we're looking at another 12-20 inches on top of what we got two days ago.

Can't even tell I blasted that way (still glad I did though).

The finishing touch is the solid inch of ice capping it all off.

Dogs were sliding on top of it during this morning's constitutional.

Isn't sleet just the best thing ever ?

Looks like this one might take some extra time, so I'm stepping out now

to get a head start.

A-Jay

Well, we officially got 9.5" near me....but the road crews were out most of the time and we can get places. Neighbor dug out the Jetta and will finish the driveway/sidewalks today...I'm in good shape.

Have fun, Andy.

We got hammered with heavy rain and 50+ winds Friday night into Sat. Power outages all over. Trees and power lines closing lots of roads. We had no power for 27 hours, some still don't have it and round two is here. The local co-op ran out of poles they replaced so many. More wind and rain today, maybe some ice on the back side. I won't be surprised if the power goes out again.

On a positive note I put the first muskie of 26 in the net Saturday evening. Just a 31" but, I'm happy to have it. T'was the only bite in five trips. They're keeping me humble so far.

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

Well, we officially got 9.5" near me

That's about what I got too.

Sounds like another inch or two coming tomorrow evening.

I surrender

So January has like 75 days now ?

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😁

A-Jay

30 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

So January has like 75 days now ?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1997786587837988/

😁

A-Jay

I get this or "Might be restricted" message with every reel you post, Andy....might want to check that.

4 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

I get this or "Might be restricted" message with every reel you post, Andy....might want to check that.

Works for me on multiple devices.

Not sure what's going on.

A-Jay

On 3/15/2026 at 8:51 AM, gim said:

That’s what they call heart attack snow. My snow blower struggles with it. Comes out of the chute like ketchup.

I started using Snow & Ice a couple years ago, I spray down the chute, bucket, and the shovels before winter and again if they are calling for a lot of, or wet snow. Haven’t had the chute plug since.

We have more snow on the ground now than we did for Christmas.

^ Join the club.....

22 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

^ Join the club.....

That’s actually not true here. We had more snow pre Xmas. Way more.