One thing that is well known especially along the Lake Michigan coastal counties is lake effect snow. When trying to put together a winter forecast for Michigan figuring in lake effect snow amounts is almost impossible for the season. Wind direction and wind speed can create a lot of variability when cold air moves across […]
New on the Michigan Forecast Page is a winter safety slider which also contains various information on different types of storms which may affect Michigan. Though I have no expectations of of cold and accumulating snow in the long term forecast here in southern Michigan, winter weather has begun in the U.P. and some snow […]
I added two new maps to the Forecast Page (bottom of page) compliments of Dark Sky – still fiddling with the code and geolocation for these. This will allow me to develop an app for this site and allow 25,000 free map loads per day for this site and 150,000 loads for Android and IOS […]
Here is a little history on Halloween. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween Here is some weather history for Halloween at Grand Rapids over the years. The average high is 55° and the average low is 39° The warmest was 79° in 1950 other warm Halloweens were 78° in 1933 and 76° in 1979. The coldest temperature recorded on the […]
Slim and I have been dropping hints of the winter forecast for this year – I am thinking I will put out my forecast sometime next week. My main concern for early winter is the predicted position of the jet stream through November which is just south of the state (which I will figure into […]
Hard frost this morning – 26° down here at the station – 30° both in Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids (7:30 readings). We are in one of the low lying areas down by the Kalamazoo river. Most areas in southern Michigan are in the mid to upper 20s to 30°. It is inevitable, I put the […]
Wind-chill or windchill, (popularly wind chill factor) is the perceived decrease in air temperature felt by the body on exposed skin due to the flow of air. Wind chill numbers are always lower than the air temperature for values where the formula is valid. When the apparent temperature is higher than the air temperature, the […]
Lots of rain is an understatement for this month. Many totals around the state are near or exceed the five inch mark for yesterdays totals. Most areas are close or have exceeded the record amounts for October. I was talking to a person yesterday complaining about the rain, I said multiple that by ten and […]
Today’s weather reminds me of the chorus of my favorite Bob Dylan song – It’s a Hard Rain Gonna Fall. Most of the state has a flood advisory in place until 8am tomorrow with the potential of nearly five inches rain from Alpena to Coldwater and Grand Rapids to Flint. We have had over 8 […]
Made a few changes to the Forecast Page for faster loading and to take care of some background script issues. That is the problem of being a one man band in regards to keeping the site running; when something starts going wrong I have to do a lot of debugging myself. I talked to some […]