Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
FINISHING UP the use of a snow blower on his driveway on Tuesday is Jeremy Dahl on Pierce Street in Wakefield. "It's not too bad," he said of the actual aftermath of the area's first storm, which had been predicted to bring as many as 15 inches of snow to the region.
By P.J. GLISSON
The season's first snowstorm at the start of this week did not bring as many inches as anticipated, but it definitely made winter official.
As many as 15 inches were predicted for the western U.P., but the official total for the two-day event measured for National Weather Service at the Gogebic-Iron Wastewater Treatment Facility in Ironwood was 4 inches, as of 7 a.m. Tuesday.
That brought the season total to 6.9 inches, compared to 48 inches on the same date last year.
"For the most part, it was a pretty typical lake-effect snow event," said Evan Kutta,...
