Jul 28, 2024
Snow drought
Whether you call it a cycle, or a blip, or an aberration or climate change (which is what you should call it), you have to admit something's happening.
Or not happening, depending on how you look at it, The thing that's not happening is snow. Michigan's Upper Peninsula is, it seems, losing one of its claims to fame.
This snowmometer, on M-140 in Mohawk, is a little hard to read from this angle, but the take-away here is that snowfall in Keweenaw County last year was the least it's ever been since they started keeping records.
The plaque next to the guage commemorates the winter of 1978-79, when the county got 390.4 inches of show. The 54-year average is about 240 inches. Last year the total was about 170 inches.
