We should have a period of drying out over the week, possibly through the rest of the month as very little rain or snow is forecasted looking at the model data. We may see a little snow north through Gaylord and north into the U.P.. A relatively quiet period is expected into mid week as […]
The feature image is a screen shot of Houghton this morning – if you want to see some snow go north. Had another wet week in SW Michigan – last week was 2.2 inches here at the station bringing us to 3.74 for the month and 53.36 inches for the year. Still no snow on […]
Growing up in Bay City and Alpena the start of the regular firearm deer season was always a big day. In Alpena, it was being careful while out in the yard and the hearing of gun shots all day long, In Bay City it was watching the traffic on first us 23 and us […]
Windy and wet are the words for this weekend. Football games will be interesting as nasty weather conditions seem to level the playing field and the main idea will be to try to hold on to the football as the pigskin will be wet and slippery. Michigan will be playing at Wisconsin as they try […]
Once again we have a windy and wet month for the state with most of the snow staying mainly in the central and western U.P. . Bittersweet down the road from me has been trying to make some snow but it has been kind of futile with the rain yesterday, They do have a nice […]
Today is the first day of firearm deer hunting. Watch out for deer running amuck on the road. I have had a few close calls over the past month. Remember, no matter what you brain says, if a deer runs in front of you when you are driving hold your path unless you are […]
The graphic below is the GFS model from Friday through Tuesday early morning. We start out fairly warm with temperatures in the low 50s (yellow in the graphic) with rain on Saturday. The winds will pickup out of the northwest changing the rain into snow then lake enhanced snow and lake effect starting late Saturday/early […]
This is pretty to watch, kind of hypnotic seeing the pretty colors move from west to east. This is the CFS 850mb temperature model for north America through mid December. The grays are very cold air of -18 to -30 the purples and blues -18 to -20. The 850mb model shows temperature, wind speed […]
The feature image is a screen capture from the Houghton webcam yesterday morning, Below is the current snow cover map. Snow isn’t far from south Michigan as it slowly creeps its way southward. With temperatures forecasted to trend from the 20s to the forties over the next couple weeks I believe we will be hard […]
The mid November period has seen some very big storms in the Great Lakes region. Here is a list of some of the storms that have happened between November 9th to 1913 The White Hurricane One of deadliest weather event in Great Lakes history was the so-called “White Hurricane” of Nov. 9-11, 1913. Synoptically, this […]