Another year has passed us by which weather wise had been on the warm side until the last couple months when the bottom has dropped out which has brought us the coldest air we have seen in quite some time. The warnings and advisories will expire at noon today. Occasional bursts of snow will affect […]
With the start of the new year I thought it would be a good time to look back at years past and look at some top 5 years as to temperature, snow fall and precipitation. First here are the averages for 1. Annual mean temperature. 2. Snow fall and 3. Precipitation. 1. The mean annual […]
Once again we have a winter weather advisory for the lakeshore counties and one county to the east. Seems this weather pattern has become the norm for the area of late. The snow is piling up an inch or two at a time slowly adding up to the beautiful whiteness we have on the […]
The feature image is from the Bittersweet webcam – lots of people braving the cold air waiting for the lift to go back up the hill. Winter Storm Warning: Mason, Oceana and Muskegon counties – Total snow accumulations of 6 to 9 inches, with localized amounts up to 11 inches, are expected. Snowfall rates in […]
The temperatures have been hovering at -2° early this morning here in Otsego with negative numbers being pretty consistent across SW Michigan with the exception of the lakeshore where they have been above 0°. Temperatures in the northern lower and the U.P. are in the double digit negative numbers. Looking at the long range it […]
Hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas. One of the more interesting gifts I received is a storm glass (to the left) from my step-daughter. The storm glass or chemical weather glass was an instrument which was proposed as a method for predicting weather. It consisted of a special liquid placed inside a sealed transparent […]
Definitely a white Christmas over most of the area. We had a quick dump of snow when the lake effect band moved on shore early this morning. Kalamazoo is reporting 5 inches, we have about 4 inches here in Otsego. The lake effect bands are starting to set up as of 7am, though weak at […]
[kad_youtube url=”https://youtu.be/mN7LW0Y00kE” maxwidth=600 ] This is one of the old Christmas standards from Dean Martin and is a good segue into this holidays weather coming up. We have multiple winter weather advisories for the area and warnings for St. Joseph and Berrien Counties. Here is the latest from the NWS as of 7:30am. Unless otherwise […]
I was going to do a December extremes past part ll but I changed my mind and will do a past Christmas instead. This will be sort of a expanded version of Climatology for today. And will include both Christmas Eve and Christmas day. First for December 24th at Grand Rapids the average […]
I start my long vacation from my real job today with our first Christmas celebration later this afternoon, my wife’s birthday is tomorrow then it off to see my mother (she is 81). We have our big Christmas party on Monday with a house full of family with lots of grand-kids running around (I have […]