The two-and-a-half-day long winter storm that snarled traffic and produced huge snowdrifts finally subsided early Sunday morning, as the last of the warnings and advisories that had been in place since Wednesday finally came to an end.
Christmas Day was quiet across the Upper Peninsula, except in the far eastern U.P., where lake effect snow was still falling on Christmas Day into Christmas Night.
All across the U.P., Sunday was a day filled with the sounds of snowblowers, plows, and shoveling.
The National Weather Service offices in Marquette and Gaylord have some statistics on how much snow was received, and how high the winds got at the peak of the storm this weekend.
Here are those numbers:
PRELIMINARY U.P. SNOWFALL TOTALS
Baraga 42.8 inches
Herman 38.3 inches
Sault Ste. Marie 35.2 inches
Laurium-Calumet 34.8 inches
Pickford 30 inches
Rudyard 30 inches
Sagola 29 inches
NWS Marquette office 26.9 inches
Eben Junction 25.3 inches
Paulding 19.4 inches
Cedarville 16.4 inches
Harvey 14.5 inches
Garden 9 inches
Menominee 6.7 inches
PRELIMINARY U.P. WIND GUST REPORT
Stannard Rock Lightouse 79 mph
Copper Harbor 71 mph
Houghton County Airport 70 mph
Grand Island 69 mph
Munising 63 mph
Grand Marais 61 mph
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