Winter Weather in Southern Schoolcraft, Michigan

Observers in the Manistique area measured between 3 and 4 inches of lake effect snow over a 24-hour period. The snow combined with blowing snow from northwest winds gusting as high as 30 mph to reduce visibility to half mile at times. Manistique Schools were closed on the 12th.

As series of upper disturbances moving across a cold Arctic air mass in place over the Upper Great Lakes brought heavy lake enhanced snow to the north-northwest wind snow belts of Upper Michigan from the 10th into the 13th.