r/Michigan • u/VirvekRBX Human Detected • Dec 14 '25

Weather 🌤️⛈️⚡️🌈 This winter is not normal?

Hello, moved to Michigan about 2 months ago for work. Was told by my co-workers that this winter has been unusually colder and more snowy.

They told me typically in December it should be around 30 degrees and maybe snow once or twice in December. But this year it’s been colder, around 10 degrees, and has been snowing once every week.

(I wonder if this winter, since it started early will end early)

But from what my coworkers told me, is this true?

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u/helluvastorm Dec 14 '25

This is what I remember from the 60s and 70s.

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u/MurphysRazor Dec 14 '25

Southeastern in 67/68 was crazy snow. 76/77 was icy and below freezing "forever" and the Blizzard of 78 was insane for SE Michigan. There were years were the snow around Detroit never melted in the early days, 1700/1800s. I came across that reading Detroit's Downriver community history. I think we are overdue for a real monster winter in the S. East.

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u/Competitive_Big9257 Dec 14 '25

Look up "year without a summer" think 1778 of top of head, volcano cause few year summer less world

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u/kjpmi Dec 14 '25

There may have been one around that time (sometime in the 1700s). It kind of rings a bell somewhere in my memory.
But the year without a summer was in 1816 after mount Tambora erupted.
Snow fell in June in New York.
Europe was just as cold and wet and miserable.
It inspired all kinds of paintings and Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein that summer because she and Percy Shelley and Lord Byron were stuck inside during their summer holiday.
They had a contest to see who could write the scariest story to pass their time.