A huge storm system brought two to three days of heavy snow to the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Michigan. Below are official snowfall statistics from the National Weather Service office in northern Michigan.
The winner or loser is Round Lake, Michigan, a city located in Alger County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, about 13 miles south of Munising, Michigan.
These are blizzard totals for the entire storm period.
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Round Lake — 52.0 inches
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Lake Cousineau — 48.5 inches
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Lake Forest — 42.5 inches
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Three Lakes — 40.0 inches
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Mount Alvin — 39.0 inches
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National Mine — 38.6 inches
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Menominee — 34.0 inches
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Manistique — 26.5 inches
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Carlshend — 25.8 inches
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Gladstone — 24.5 inches
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Iron Mountain — 24.1 inches
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Crystal Falls — 24.0 inches
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Kingsford — 23.4 inches
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Mineral Hill — 22.0 inches
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Garden Corner—19.8 inches
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Watersmet—6.5 inches
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Painesdale — 4.8 inches
Complete snowstorm totals from northern Lower Michigan now provided by the National Weather Service in Gaylord.
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Wolverine — 28.0 inches
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Charlevoix — 26.0 inches
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Cedarville — 21.2 inches
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East Jordan — 22.2 inches
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Harbor Springs — 18.2 inches
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Northport — 15.0 inches
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Mancelona — 13.5 inches
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Suttons Bay — 13.8 inches
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Otsego Lake State — 13.0 inches
The storm set some snowfall records and liquid-equivalent precipitation records. We’ll cover these later at MLive.com/weather.
Marquette and Negaunee set new two-day snowfall records.
This is an impressive feat considering that Marquette and Negaunee are among the snowiest cities in the United States east of the Rockies.
If you’d like to see more photos of the historic snowstorm, visit the Michigan Weather Facebook group, where many people posted Old Man Winter art related to the storm
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