I know I was recently bragging about our lovely springish weather. Well, mother nature played a cruel trick on us! We woke up on April 15 to Scarlett yelling "It's Christmas-time outside! Look! Snow!!!" Ugh.
Even though I have already packed up all our winter gear, there is one small sliver of a silver lining (say that ten times fast!) This article is from weather.com.
Detroit Snow Record Falls: 133-Year-Old Mark Broken By Unusually Snowy Season
Wet snow falling late Monday night into tax deadline day Tuesday shattered Detroit's long-standing seasonal snowfall record.
Through April 15, a total of 94.9 inches of snow had been measured in the 2013-14 season at Detroit's Metro Airport, topping the previous record snowiest season, 93.6 inches set in 1880-81.
This is more than double their average seasonal snowfall of 44.1 inches.
While located in the Great Lakes region, Detroit does not pick up heavy lake-effect snow, as they are located too far east of Lake Michigan and to the west and north of Lake Erie.
According to the National Weather Service in Romulus, Mich., here are some other notables about the 2013-14 winter season in the Motor City:
- Record streak of days with at least 1 inch of snow cover: (77 straight days ending on Mar. 17)
- Snowiest single month on record: (39.1 inches in January 2014; almost 89 percent of their average snow for an entire season)
- Coldest November-March period since 1911-12: (Fourth-coldest on record)
- Most days with highs failing to rise above freezing since 1903-04: (79 days; third-most on record for any season)
- Most days with lows below zero since 1983-84: (13 days; ties for seventh-most in any season)
3 comments:
Brrrr...Look at the bright side, you've lived through the worst and it only gets better. You should start selling "I lived through winter 2013-14 shirts" out there. You'd be a millionaire! And I hear most of the East coast would be eligible to buy.
Ugh. So sad for you. But glad you've survived it!!
How horrible.
Our winter was bad, but not THAT bad.
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