Moderate lake effect snow fell over portions of Marquette and Alger counties from the evening of the 17th into the morning of the 18th.
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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.
The episode as NWS MQT wrote it up.
Moderate lake effect snow fell over portions of Marquette and Alger counties from the evening of the 17th into the morning of the 18th.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
There was a social media report of 5.5 inches of lake effect snow in Harvey over less than three hours. Much of the snow reportedly fell over a two-hour period.
Lake effect snowfall totals over less than a 12-hour period included 8.5 inches at Munising, 5.5 inches at Deerton and 4.7 inches near Forest Lake.
Moderate snow and poor road conditions contributed to a fatal two-vehicle crash near McMillan in Lakefield Township on the morning of the 18th. At 9:50 am MSP troopers responded to a two-vehicle crash near the intersection of Highway M-28 and County Road 444 in Lakefield Township. A 19-year-old man from Newberry was driving east on M-28 when his Ford F-250 truck crossed the center line and collided with a Chrysler minivan driven by a 64-year-old woman from Newberry. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. The man was taken to Helen Newberry Joy Hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and released. The MSP was assisted at the scene of the accident by the MDNR, Columbus Fire Department, the Luce County Sheriff's office and Luce County EMS.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Weather, Luce | 2022-12-18 | 64 | Female | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Indirect |
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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1069173, 1069174, 1069193.