Heavy Snow in Michigan, November 26 to 28, 2001

Heavy snows occurred over western Upper Michigan as a low pressure system moved across the Great Lakes region. The snow began on the 26th and continued into the 28th. Scattered power and telephone outages were reported as tree branches weighted down by the wet snow snapped and fell across the lines. Strong northeast winds enhanced the snowfall, adding moisture from Lake Superior. The greatest amounts fell on the central highlands overnight on the 26th and during the morning of the 27th. Thirty inches of snow fell at the National Weather Service Office near Negaunee. Other snowfall totals from the storm included 9 inches in Iron Mountain and Ontonagon, 10 inches at Amasa, Bruce Crossing and northwest Dickinson County near Channing, 11 inches in Rockland, Calumet, Herman and Pelkie, 12 inches at Stambaugh, Phoenix, Paint Lake near Kenton and at Fortune Lake near Crystal Falls, 13 inches in both Gwinn and Watton. The National Weather Service Office set daily record snowfalls on the 26th with 9.2 inches of snow and again on the 27th with 19.2 inches of new snow. The record snowfall on the 27th was also the all-time daily record for the month of November. The 2.16 inches of water equivalent on the 27th also set a record.