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Look at this amazing satellite imagery of snow storm sweeping over Michigan

NOAA satellite imagery of Dec. 1-2, 2020 snowstorm in Great Lakes region. (NOAA)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-16 satellite recorded this amazing view of the snow storm that swept through the Great Lakes region this week.

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Very cool (no pun intended). This makes it clear Michigan got kind of passed up by this storm -- bummer, if you like the snow.

Maybe next time! ⛄

Here’s something cool -- “supercool,” in fact -- captured by GOES on Nov. 20:

Anyway, here’s a look at some of the snow totals we saw in Metro Detroit between Monday and Tuesday:

  • Wyandotte: 4.3 inches
  • Romulus: 3.9 inches
  • Southgate: 3.5 inches
  • Yale: 3.3 inches
  • White Lake: 3.1 inches
  • Richmond: 3.1 inches
  • Eastpointe: 3.0 inches
  • Garden City: 3.0 inches
  • Livonia: 3.0 inches
  • Ann Arbor: 2.8 inches
  • Peck: 2.8 inches
  • Novi: 2.6 inches
  • Utica: 2.5 inches
  • Monroe: 2.4 inches
  • Bloomfield Township: 2.1 inches
  • Lexington: 2.0 inches
  • Algonac: 2.0 inches
  • Carleton: 2.0 inches
  • Elba: 1.8 inches
  • Farmington: 1.2 inches
  • Lapeer: 1.1 inches
  • Berkley: 1.1 inches

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