{"id":530322,"date":"2026-03-18T06:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/530322\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T06:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:50:10","slug":"record-breaking-storm-requires-major-clean-up-news-sports-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/530322\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking storm requires major clean-up | News, Sports, Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many businesses remained closed Tuesday due to snow accumulation. (Journal photo by Annie Lippert)<\/p>\n

MARQUETTE \u2014\u00a0The storm which tore through much of the Upper Midwest over the past few days has finally ended, leaving residents and municipalities with a serious clean-up job. <\/p>\n

Many cities and townships were either closed or had amended hours on Tuesday, and all of the area schools remained closed. Snow drifts are immense in the wake of the blizzard and Yoopers were out in full force to snowblow and shovel out cars, driveways and sidewalks. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t been out really long because our neighbor drives a commercial plow,\u201d said Marquette resident Cathy Seblonka from her snowy driveway. \u201cHe (plowed) his, and he (plowed) a bunch of ours.\u201d <\/p>\n

Seblonka has been living in Marquette for 35 years, but said she\u2019s never seen this much snow. \u201cIt\u2019s better than ice and hurricane,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m about to turn 72 and I\u2019ve never seen a storm like this one,\u201d said another Marquette shoveler. <\/p>\n

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A plow turns onto Washington Street on Monday. (Journal photo by Annie Lippert)<\/p>\n

Many people were out helping their neighbors shovel out driveways and push cars through plowed-in intersections. <\/p>\n

Meteorologist Taylor Andrew Prislovsky from the National Weather Service\u2019s Marquette County office says that this storm broke several records. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt the office here (in Negaunee Township) we measured 37.6 inches,\u201d said Prislovsky. \u201cThe highest so far has been around 39 inches in the South East of Mount Arvon, and 43 inches in Herman.<\/p>\n

For Marquette, in the city itself it looks like there\u2019s at least 14 inches, potentially up to 18 inches. That might be a bit more on the conservative side for snowfall.\u201d Snowfall in the city of Marquette is measured directly off of the lakeshore. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe (snowfall) numbers themselves were a bit on the lower side than predicted,\u201d said Prislovsky, little consolation for people with drifts halfway up their doorways. <\/p>\n

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Marquette City Hall seen here nearly covered on Tuesday. (Journal photo by Annie Lippert)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe actually did hit the 2-day snowfall record up here at the office,\u201d said Prislovsky. At the National Weather Service\u2019s Marquette County office in Negaunee Township, 36.3 inches of snow was measured over March 15th and 16th. That broke the previous all-time record of 31.9 inches, which was set over the course of March 13th and 14th back in 1997. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe also broke the record precipitation amount for a daily precipitation record on both the 15th and the 16th, as well as the daily snowfall record for those dates,\u201d said Prislovsky. <\/p>\n

On March 15, recorded snowfall of 14.6 inches beat the previous record of 12.8 inches set in 2002, and for March 16, recorded snowfall of 21.7 inches broke the old record of only 7.7 inches set in 2013. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\tMany businesses remained closed Tuesday due to snow accumulation. (Journal photo by Annie Lippert)<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\tA plow turns onto Washington Street on Monday. (Journal photo by Annie Lippert)<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\tMarquette City Hall seen here nearly covered on Tuesday. (Journal photo by Annie Lippert)
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In regard to liquid equivalents, on the 15th a new record of 2.27 inches broke the old record of 1.3 inches set in 2002, and on the 16th a new record of 1.72 inches broke the old record of 1.34 inches set in 2016. <\/p>\n

What is it about the beginning of spring that seems to bring these massive snow accumulations? <\/p>\n

\u201cAs we start to warm up in the spring, we get some more warm air trying to intrude farther and farther north,\u201d said Prislovsky. \u201cWe\u2019re typically a lot colder during winter and spring months here, so we get a lot more low pressure systems.\u201d <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t put away your shovels. <\/p>\n

Annie Lippert can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext. 550. Her email address is alippert@miningjournal.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many businesses remained closed Tuesday due to snow accumulation. (Journal photo by Annie Lippert) MARQUETTE \u2014\u00a0The storm which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,23061,451,3,238450,238449,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-530322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-front-page-news","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-record-breaking-storm-requires-major-clean-up","14":"tag-record-breaking-storm-requires-major-clean-upnews","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}