Marathon Pundit: Global warming news: It's mid-April but Michigan hit with major snowstorm

Even for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, a mid-April snow storm is unusual.

From MLive:

A storm that started Wednesday morning around Ironwood hit Marquette in the afternoon hours and dropped just under 10 inches of snow to the area by Thursday morning, according to the National Weather Service in Negaunee Township.

A total of 3.9 inches of snow that fell after midnight broke a record for snowfall on April 17, surpassing the previous snowfall of 2.5 inches for the day in 1982. NWS snowfall records in Negaunee Township date to 1961.

Jim Salzwedel, a hydromet technician for the NWS, said areas of the western Upper Peninsula saw 18 inches during this week's snowstorm. Typically, snow only remains on the highest ridges of the western Upper Peninsula this time of year, Salzwedel said.

"It's definitely been a tough winter," he said.

Yesterday Gov. Rick Snyder declared a state of emergency in Marquette County on the U.P. so water and sewer lines damaged by the brutal Winter of 2014 can be repaired.

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