November marked the third-snowiest on record for the Marquette area, according to the Marquette National Weather Service office.

The local station in Negaunee Township, just west of Marquette, recorded 48.8 inches of snow throughout the month, the third-highest total for November since snowfall reports began at the location in 1959, the weather agency reported.

November 2014 took the top spot at 53 inches of snowfall, followed by November 1991 at 48.9 inches, slightly above this year's total, the NWS said.

Several winter storms have blanketed heavy lake-effect snow on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, including the Marquette region, most recently Thanksgiving week storms that dropped over 2.5 feet of snow in parts of the western UP.

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