Strong and damaging northerly winds, moderate lake effect snow and blowing snow were reported over northern Upper Michigan from the 11th into the 12th in the wake of a low pressure system tracking through the Upper Great Lakes.
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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.
Strong and damaging northerly winds, moderate lake effect snow and blowing snow were reported over northern Upper Michigan from the 11th into the 12th in the wake of a low pressure system tracking through the Upper Great Lakes.
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 Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 10, 3:45 PM EST, 15 hours 15 minutes earlier.
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5 winter weather, 1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The observer ten miles south of Grand Marais measured six inches of lake effect snow in 24 hours. Northwest winds gusting over 40 mph also caused considerable blowing snow and lowered visibility.
Three to five inches of lake effect snow fell over the higher terrain of Marquette County over a 24-hour period. The snow in combination with north winds gusting over 40 mph caused near whiteout conditions at times along Highway M-553 from K.I. Sawyer to Gwinn on the evening of the 11th. Law enforcement reported minor accidents near K.I. Sawyer.
The observer in Ironwood measured nearly eight inches of lake effect snow in 24 hours. The snow and northerly winds gusting at or above 25 mph caused visibility in Ironwood to lower near one-half mile at times.
The observer in Bergland measured 6.4 inches of lake effect snow in 24 hours.
Lake effect snowfall total over a 24-hour period included 6.8 inches at Painesdale and 5.0 inches at Kearsarge. North winds gusting over 40 mph at times also caused occasional whiteout conditions in lake effect snow and blowing snow across the county.
Law enforcement reported trees down on power lines and a blown transformer in the city of Marquette along W. Fair Avenue and Kimber Avenue. Also, a marquee sign at Westwood Mall in Marquette was torn off and strewn across Highway US-41. Wind gusts at the Coast Guard station at the time of the damage were near 45 mph from the north.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Michigan in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, February 2022
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: 1008542, 1008564, 1008538, 1008570, 1008579, 1008536.