How's the weather in the UP (MIchigan) today?

weedlady · #1 03/07/10, 09:37 AM

I ask because we are searching for land up there. DH may not have a full week of work next week because housing construction is slowed due to our weather right now.
He's thinking of making a trip north to look at a few properties. But of course, we need to be able to see the LAND. How deep is the snow cover right now? (I know things are different from one part of the UP to another, but what's it like were you are?)
Thanks
Martha

Jerngen · #2 03/07/10, 11:13 AM

I was told by a coworker who came down from Marquette Tuesday for a conference (same company, we just transferred south) that they still have 2' of snow on the ground at their house. Which is much better then the year previous tho. But they live up in the hills where we lived.
Hopefully someone will jump on and let you know what the main areas are like

Chixarecute · #3 03/07/10, 11:25 AM

Near Iron Mountain, about a 8" - a foot left. Mains roads are clear. Sap is running.

Hoop · #4 03/07/10, 12:13 PM

Watersmeet, MI has a little over a foot of snow on the ground. Warm temps are expected this week.....but I suspect the snow cover will remain for at least another month.....possibly longer.

haypoint · #5 03/07/10, 01:36 PM

St. Ignace has had very little snow all winter, very rare. It has been sunny and in the 40s for nearly a week and simular weather predicted.
Sault Ste. Marie had more snow, but less than a foot.

Paradise has a couple feet of snow.

In a normal winter, there will be snow on the ground until April 15, more in the woods.

Good time to look at land because the meltingf snow will show you where it floods each year and give an idea about the roads in the spring.

weedlady · #6 03/07/10, 02:04 PM

That helps me. I've been watching your weather and get the impression this has been an uncommonly mild winter to you.

That is a very good point about the snowmelt and flooding. I hadn't really thought of that and will be sure to mention to DH.

Hopefully, I will be a UP landowner sometime this year-crossing my fingers and praying that we find our paradise.
Martha

Maggie · #7 03/08/10, 08:06 AM

A very early spring this year for the UP. We tappped our maple trees yesterday, usually we do it around March 20. Out here in 'the woods' there's still snow, but when we go to town-Escanaba-there's hardly any snow left. It's supposed to get 45* or so here today, a BEAUTIFUL Monday!!