Name: Heavy Snow in Michigan, November 9 to 10, 2018
Start: 2018-11-09T03:00
End: 2018-11-10T03:00
Location: Michigan

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS APX wrote it up.

Strengthening low pressure crossed northern Michigan on the night of the 9th into the early morning of the 10th. Snow developed ahead of the low, with the heaviest snow north of M-32, and in particular in eastern upper Michigan. Central and eastern Chippewa County, mainly near and east of I-75, picked up 8 to 12 inches of snow, with the highest amounts in Dafter, Barbeau, and De Tour Village.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Gaylord, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 9, 2:01 AM EST, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 9, 2:01 AM EST, 59 minutes before

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Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Chippewa

When: November 9, 3:00 AM EST to November 10, 3:00 AM EST
Where: Chippewa forecast zone
Reported by: Public

What these are

Heavy Snow: Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Michigan in 2018 Every state in 2018 This day in weather history Warnings in Michigan, November 2018

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 794902.