The snow keeps mounting up over most areas of the Upper Peninsula. Many long-time residents are saying they’ve never seen this much snow so early in the season.

Officially meteorological winter started on December 1. So, while many are saying winter hasn’t even started, at least to meteorologists winter is underway.

A Facebook page for the Twin Lakes area in the Upper Peninsula’s shows the dedicated weather observer’s daily snowfall measurements.

So far in the Twin Lakes, MI area, 116″ of snow have fallen. Twin Lakes is at the southern base of the Keweenaw Peninsula.

Here’s what Christina Huhta’s yard looks like in the Toivola area in the Keweenaw Peninsula.

It's real snowy near Toivola in Michigan's Upper Peninsula on December 16, 2019. (photo courtesy of Christina Huhta)

Christina tells me she has lived in the area her entire life. She says she has never seen this much snow so early in the snow season.

The Keweenaw County Road Commission says what would be a season’s worth of snow in southern Michigan has fallen in Keweenaw County in just a short time.

The snowbanks are growing in Negaunee.

Snowbanks are five feet high along the sidewalks near Negaunee. (photo courtesy Linda Carilli)

Here’s a rundown of some of the snowfall totals so far this winter, as tallied by National Weather Service observations.

Source - National Weather Service Marquette, MI.

The National Weather Service at Marquette mentions that this early heavy snow is still not as heavy as some years up to this point. The National Weather Service says 1989 had a particularly snowy start.

Even though not record levels, if you want to see some real snow all you have to do is drive north on M-26 into the Keweenaw Peninsula.