Happy Thanksgiving
This is the day we pause from our hectic lives to give thanks for all the things for which we are blessed. We all have been through periods in our lives when we struggled with day to day living and … Continued
Weather History – High Wind Warning
We have a balmy 52° at 5am this morning with heavy rain going on. 52 will be our high for today and will fall throughout the day. I haven’t ventured out this morning to check the rain gauge I will … Continued
The Polar Vortex
With the coming of Meteorological Winter next week I thought I would give a quick reminder of what the polar vortex is. A polar vortex is an upper-level low-pressure area lying near the Earth’s poles. There are two polar vortices … Continued
Another Pleasant Day
Pleasant is a relative term in regards to late fall weather. I was crawling around my roof yesterday putting up the Christmas lights and cleaning the gutters. We had very little wind and the temp on the roof was probably … Continued
A Look Ahead
Good morning to you all. Hard to believe we are closing out the month of November this week and the last week of meteorological fall. Yesterday our high was 39° with partly cloudy skies. All in all it appears to … Continued
November 1963
I know that there are many who think that the state of our world is a lot worse today then it was in the past but is it really? In every one’s life there are some dates that stick into … Continued
The Sun Returns
Yesterday we reached 51° in Otsego with .52 of an inch of rain. This is traditionally the weekend I climb up on the roof to install all the Christmas lights on the house, my wife puts lights on our split … Continued
Catatumbo Lightning
Our next post is on Catatumbo lightning to add to our series on peculiar weather phenomenon. You will only be able to see this event in Venezuela where the Catatumbo River empties into Lake Maracaibo. Sometimes referred to as Venezuela’s “eternal … Continued
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Weather History for This Week
November 17 1989: Grand Rapids picks up seven inches of snow, bringing accumulations during a three day storm to over a foot. 2013: A squall line of severe thunderstorms moved through Lower Michigan during the afternoon bringing widespread wind damage. … Continued
Katabatic Winds
This is the second of the strange weather phenomenon series – just as gravity waves this is one we generally don’t hear about in the weather reports. A katabatic wind (is the technical name for a drainage wind, a wind … Continued