Brian Masinick
Though it’s getting gradually cooler here in the “Upstate Region” of South Carolina, compared to either Michigan or New Hampshire, the other two states I’ve lived in, we’d be absolutely DELIGHTED to experience ANY weather remotely close to what we regularly have here.
Around the Detroit metropolitan region, where I grew up, first of all, it’s probably one of the LEAST sunny regions in the USA, and probably one of the least sunny areas anywhere in the world. MOST YEARS there are under sixty days a year where it’s mostly sunny there. The main reason for this is that the entire state of Michigan is surrounded by water to the West, North, and East. The water off Lake Michigan is a couple of hundred miles away, but many weather patterns travel from West – Northwest to East – Southeast – heading directly toward the Thumb and lower areas of eastern Michigan. To further complicate matters, there is water directly East of the Metro Detroit area, so some rainy patterns will occasionally circle the area, so dark clouds are common.
In the Northwestern Upper Peninsula of Michigan, home of Michigan Tech, the Keweenaw Peninsula. Here’s some notes that apply to the period in time where I attended Michigan Tech:
The peninsula receives copious amounts of lake-effect snow from Lake Superior. Official records are maintained close to the base of the peninsula in Hancock, Michigan,[9] where the annual snowfall average is about 220 in (560 cm). Keweenaw County reports daily snowfall, and monthly and seasonal totals since 2006.[10] In the Keweenaw community of Delaware, an unofficial record gives an average of about 240 in (610 cm) (1957-2011) and the record snowfall for one season of 390 in (990 cm) in 1979.[11] Averages over 250 in (640 cm) certainly occur in the higher elevations closer to the tip of the peninsula.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keweenaw_Peninsula
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