3/6/2025

UPPER MICHIGAN – The largest winter storm of the season leaving many in Northern Wisconsin and the U.P. digging out this morning.  The National Weather Service Marquette office, located in Negaunee Township, set a daily record for snowfall yesterday. The office received 20.8 inches of snow, breaking the previous March 5 record of 15.8 inches, set in 2001. At the National Weather Service reporting site at the WUPM / WHRY radio studios in Ironwood saw just over 16 inches of snow.  Snow totals around the region ranged from 10 inches in Northern Wisconsin to 25 inches near Marquette.  The weather service says March will go down in the record books as the third snowiest and March 5th will go down in the books as the ninth snowiest day of all time.  The Marquette Coast Guard station also recorded a 62 mph gust yesterday afternoon.