The winter solstice is the day with the fewest hours of sunlight in the whole year. In the Northern Hemisphere, it always occurs around December 21 or 22. (In the Southern Hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs around June 20 or 21.) At the winter solstice, the Sun’s path has reached its southernmost position. The next day, the path […]
Looking at the long range models through the 5th of January it appears we will have an extended period of bitter cold and snow with the coldest air of the season coming Christmas Day. The GFS model has been fairly consistent showing the possibility of even colder air coming towards the end of the first […]
I have been watching the models the past couple days showing a storm system coming through the state wondering where the rain/freezing rain/snow lines would be as the models changed nearly every run. The main idea is that there will be a front coming through Thursday and Friday into early Saturday. For the period Thursday […]
There is a winter weather advisory for Mason-Lake-Osceola-Clare-Oceana-Newaygo-Mecosta-Isabella-Montcalm- Gratiot counties until 11am. Occasional light freezing rain or drizzle, as well as areas of dense fog. The ice will result in very slippery conditions on untreated sidewalks, roads and bridges, including during the morning commute. A light glaze is expected. I thought this would be a good […]
[columns] [span3] [/span3][span3] [/span3][span3] [/span3][span3] [/span3][/columns] Above are the CFSv2 through the 12th of January – keep in mind these are shown in metric units in regards to the anomalies using baseline data points over a 30 year period (K). I am not going to get into the math used to assemble these maps as […]
Over the next 2 weeks I will look at some past extreme months of December and than see how the rest of that winter played out. This week I will look at the two top coldest and warmest December on Record at Grand Rapids. First, we will look at the coldest Decembers in the past. […]
First up – another winter weather advisory for the counties along the lake shore and one county in. A burst of lake effect snow will move through the area from early this morning into this afternoon. Plan on slippery road conditions, including during the morning commute. Snow accumulations of 1 to 3 inches are expected. […]
Definitely the coldest air of the season moving through this morning as the skies have cleared and allowed temperatures to drop into the single digits and below 0° in some locations. We have -2° (at 7:30am) here at the Center in Otsego which has been a rarity over the past few years. Makes one want […]
Light snow is beginning to move into the Grand Rapids area at 7am – this is the beginning of another snow event to either annoy or make some jump for joy – myself I believe it is what it is so we must just deal with it. It is not going to go away anytime […]
Cold out there this morning – when I let the dogs out for their morning constitutional it was a quick process – our indoor cat decided to check out the snow, she spent out 30 seconds out there before she scampered back in. 19° in Otsego at 7am – temperature is pretty consistent around the […]