A friend from Marquette said the weather service designated Marquette as the nation’s snowiest place. Did Marquette really get more snow than the Copper Country or Munising?

This is an interesting one, as snowfall is always tricky to measure. The KRC’s totals, for example, do note that wind blows snow off of their boards. They have us at 168.5″, while the Snow Thermometer has us at 238″.

Marquette’s total is 157″, though I don’t know the site for that. It’s the NWS almanac total.

What it comes down to is prevailing wind direction: Marquette gets hit harder when the wind is straight north, but anything westerly and we get slammed. For what it’s worth, the Weather Channel has Hancock as #3 in the country for snowfall, with a 211.9″ average, behind only Crested Butte, CO and Valdez, AK.

And Jim Cantore wouldn’t lie to us, right? -Kevin