When Did Local News Become Obsessed with the Weather?

[Richard]

I do not live there but I have this new fangeled thing they call the WWW,it’s pretty informative.

Snow in February ranges from over 19.3 inches in heavy snowfall years to under 5.8 inches in light years.

According to this about once every 10 years it dumps 17 - 19”

historically

https://www.currentresults.com/Weath...n-averages.php

I am just surprised nobody had a problem with long posts in this thread,even the ones that complain about them,or maybe not really surprised.

This chart shows in 2000-2001 in December,Detroit had 25” of snowfall for the month.

https://www.weather.gov/dtx/dtwsnow2000-2020

18.4in. — The one-day record snowfall for Detroit, Michigan was recorded on December 1st, 1974 as seen in the chart below.

https://www.weather.gov/dtx/dtwsnow2000-2020

Flint had over 30”

April 6, 1886 -- 24.5 inches

But they were scooting about with horse n buggy,no need for tire chains.

You can tell it is winter though,people get OCD or obsessed over the weirdest things.

Tamarack, California, holds the record for the most snow in a calendar month with 390 inches [[32.5 feet) in January 1911, according to Burt. That's nearly twice the average snowfall during an entire winter in very snowy Marquette, Michigan, which averages about 204 inches annually.

How would you like to shovel that out of your driveway?

It does seem as though the 70s was a bad winter period,I remember blizzards and snow storms with snow drifts that completely buried cars and piled snowdrifts to the roof peaks,well past 20’ ,not in Detroit though.