Not Good

Well, that really couldn't have been a bigger bust for the first "major" winter storm if I tried. I'll be frank about this one. I (along with other meteorologists in Detroit) made one big mistake. I overestimated the amount of snow that would fall overnight. Here in Lake Orion, we'll still end up with about 6", but about 2" of that will fall during the day today, when it doesn't have any effect on school being in session. And another mistake was that I underestimated the strength of the dry slot. We only got 0.4" of snow overnight, for a total of 3.9", which obviously isn't enough for a snow day. Basically, the dry air prevented any substantial snow amounts from falling last night, which killed our chances for a snow day. This isn't even one of those days where I can say that the school district should have called school. If you're looking for someone to blame for this bust of a snow day, blame me.