Hi, sorry for another question, lol.
Looking over the maps of yearly snowfall totals it's obvious that the two bullseyes for snow stretch from Twin Lakes to Painesdale, and from ~Calumet north to just past Delaware.
I'm wondering about that bullseye over Keweenaw County. I understand that Painesdale, etc, gets a ton from it's elevation being 1,200+ feet up...but in the case of Keweenaw County, while there are locations of similar altitude it seems that that bullseye includes lower elevations as well. I'm curious to know what is the driving feature of the bullseye over Keweenaw County and why places that seem to be lower than others get so much more snow (apparently these places in Keweenaw County tend to get a significantly higher amount of snow than where I live in Calumet at 1,220'). Delaware Mine, where that almost 400" snowfall total came from back in 1979, is only ~1,000 feet up.
Also my wife and I are looking to purchase land or a house soon and we're considering this sort of thing when trying to choose a place - we're both utterly obsessed with snow, and want to live as close as reasonably possible to the best LES bands. We actually moved here from northern Maine because of the things we learned from you (Been reading this website since at least 2003, maybe earlier...back when you were in Lake Linden.)
~ Will
Looking over the maps of yearly snowfall totals it's obvious that the two bullseyes for snow stretch from Twin Lakes to Painesdale, and from ~Calumet north to just past Delaware.
I'm wondering about that bullseye over Keweenaw County. I understand that Painesdale, etc, gets a ton from it's elevation being 1,200+ feet up...but in the case of Keweenaw County, while there are locations of similar altitude it seems that that bullseye includes lower elevations as well. I'm curious to know what is the driving feature of the bullseye over Keweenaw County and why places that seem to be lower than others get so much more snow (apparently these places in Keweenaw County tend to get a significantly higher amount of snow than where I live in Calumet at 1,220'). Delaware Mine, where that almost 400" snowfall total came from back in 1979, is only ~1,000 feet up.
Also my wife and I are looking to purchase land or a house soon and we're considering this sort of thing when trying to choose a place - we're both utterly obsessed with snow, and want to live as close as reasonably possible to the best LES bands. We actually moved here from northern Maine because of the things we learned from you (Been reading this website since at least 2003, maybe earlier...back when you were in Lake Linden.)
~ Will