A mid November early season lake effect snow event developed and resulted in total snow amounts of up to nine to ten inches across portions of Ottawa, Allegan and Van Buren counties.
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The episode as NWS GRR wrote it up.
A mid November early season lake effect snow event developed and resulted in total snow amounts of up to nine to ten inches across portions of Ottawa, Allegan and Van Buren counties.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 lake-effect snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Up to nine inches of snow was reported across portions of Ottawa county. A trained spotter reported nine inches of snow four miles north of Holland and the public reported 7.5 inches of snow 3 miles northwest of Holland.
A co-op observer reported 10.2 inches of snow fell in Fennville. The broadcast media reported that 10.5 inches of snow fell in Pullman.
Up to ten inches of snow fell across portions of Van Buren county.
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