Hancock, Michigan

... Record daily maximum snowfall set at Marquette mi...

a record snowfall of a trace was set at Marquette mi today. This
ties the old record of trace set in 1992. This also ranks as the 8th
latest snowfall on record. The latest snowfall on record is a trace
that occurred on June 3rd 1990.

Weather records for the Marquette National Weather Service office
located in Negaunee township date back to 1961.

... Cold with above normal precipitation and snow in February-April...

The persistence of an upper trough over central and eastern North
America resulted in a chilly... active weather pattern over the upper
Great Lakes from the middle of January through April. Many locations
across Upper Michigan saw a top 10 wettest and snowiest February
through April period... with precipitation and snowfall as much as
200 percent or more of the 30-year normal. Record February through
April snow fell on Munising in 2013. The 109.5 inches that
accumulated there from 2/1 through 4/30 is over 50 inches above the
30-year average and about 3 inches more than the previous record
total that fell during this same period in 2002. A few places also
experienced a top 10 coldest February through April... with the mean
3-monthly temperatures running 2 to as much as 6 degrees below
normal.

                February-April 2013 mean temperature

              observed normal departure record 2013 rank

Ironwood 20.9 26.7 -5.8 19.0 /1996/ 6th coldest

Marquette NWS 22.8 26.1 -3.3 19.7 /1972/ 10th coldest

Iron Mountain 24.9 29.2 -4.3 21.9 /1904/ 13th coldest

Manistique 26.3 28.6 -2.3 22.3 /1996/ 19th coldest

Houghton 23.4 26.9 -3.5 18.2 /1888/ ****

Munising 26.3 28.9 -2.6 19.4 /1923/ ****

Marquette city 27.5 30.1 -2.6 18.3 /1885/ ****

Newberry 26.4 28.7 -2.3 20.9 /1899/ ****

                 February-April 2013 precipitation

              observed normal departure record 2013 rank

Houghton 10.69 4.77 +5.92 12.90 /1976/ 3rd highest

Munising 11.01 6.30 +4.71 12.38 /1979/ 4th highest

Ironwood 10.77 5.89 +4.88 12.22 /2002/ 5th highest

Marquette NWS 10.84 8.18 +2.66 16.18 /2002/ 7th highest

Newberry 8.84 6.35 +2.49 15.83 /2002/ 8th highest

Iron Mountain 7.16 5.01 +2.15 10.49 /2002/ 15th highest

Manistique 6.71 5.32 +1.39 10.92 /2002/ 18th highest

Marquette city 7.52 5.76 +1.76 10.35 /1914/ ****

                   February-April 2013 snowfall

                                              record
              observed normal departure /or previous/ 2013 rank

Munising 109.5 52.9 +56.6 106.1 /2002/ new record

Ironwood 125.8 64.5 +61.3 131.5 /2002/ 2nd highest

Houghton 125.1 57.9 +67.3 133.4 /1989/ 2nd highest

Newberry 96.4 48.7 +47.7 126.7 /2002/ 3rd highest

Marquette NWS 118.2 85.3 +32.9 193.0 /2002/ 5th highest

Manistique 49.7 28.0 +21.7 64.7 /1939/ 8th highest

Iron Mountain 35.2 23.9 +11.3 68.0 /1972/ 23rd highest

Marquette city 61.9 49.9 +12.0 90.3 /1960/ 24th highest

**** not in top 25

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