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- Winter 2008 4th Snowiest in Metro Detroit
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May 16, 2008General - Link to Audio
May 16, 2008
The National Weather Service ranks this past winter as one of the snowiest ever in Metro Detroit. WDET’s Pat Batcheller has more.
The weather service says about six feet of snow fell on the Detroit area…71-point-7 inches. That’s the most so far this century…and the fourth highest snowfall since the government started keeping records in 1880. Meteorologist Bill Deedler says more than 90 inches…about seven-and-a-half feet…fell in White Lake Township. He says a sustained storm track from the southern plains to the Ohio valley meant few days when there wasn’t some snow on the ground.
“I can’t recall a week, except for that January thaw…7, 8, 10 days or so…that we didn’t have two or three systems moving through where we had miserable driving. And of course they tended to come in the morning or in the later afternoon.”
Deedler says a warm spell in January helped make it a slightly warmer-than-normal winter.