A low pressure system moving through the Upper Great Lakes dumped a swath of heavy snow over much of west and north central Upper Michigan mainly in the afternoon and evening of the 19th.
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The episode as NWS MQT wrote it up.
A low pressure system moving through the Upper Great Lakes dumped a swath of heavy snow over much of west and north central Upper Michigan mainly in the afternoon and evening of the 19th.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
6 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
The spotter near Winona measured eight inches of wet heavy snow in a 12-hour period.
Spotters in and near Ironwood measured anywhere from 11 to 14 inches of wet heavy snow over a ten-hour time period. The spotter just northwest of Ironwood reported snowfall rates of two to three inches per hour at times. The Wakefield area reported over one-inch per hour snowfall rates during the event.
Spotters measured six to seven inches of snow from Republic to Ishpeming. Most of the snow fell in less than an eight-hour period.
A swath of ten inches of wet heavy snow fell from White Pine to Rockland in an eight-hour period.
Seven to eight inches of wet heavy snow fell from Sidnaw to Watton and Covington in less than a six-hour period with two-inch per hour snowfall rates reported at times.
Seven to nine inches of wet heavy snow fell in the Sidnaw area in less than an eight-hour period. Snowfall rates of two inches per hour were reported at times.
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