4 PM Update WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT TO 7 AM EST WEDNESDAY for Mason, Oceana, Muskegon, Ottawa, Allegan and Van Buren Counties. Heavy lake effect will develop tonight. Travel will be very difficult including during the morning commute on Tuesday. Snow accumulations of 9 to 13 inches, with localized amounts up to 17 inches,…
Month: December 2017
Winter Storm Warnings and Advisories PM Update
Snow For Christmas?
[columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] Above are the GFS models which show our temperatures bouncing all over the place from now through Christmas. The first is the precipitation model from the 19th to the 26th showing a mixed bag with the possibility of rain and snow through the period. The temperature map show the cooler air…
Wenonah Hotel
December 10th 1977 I remember December 10th 1977 very well. I had a close friend that lived at the Wenonah Hotel. While it was called a “hotel” it was more like an apartment building with shops and such on the ground floors and in the basement. (That part was called Underground Bay City at the…
Weekend Snow
[columns] [span4] [/span4][span4] [/span4][span4] [/span4][/columns] Above are all the winter weather advisories for the state (in blue). There is a winter storm warning for Berrian County (in pink) where heavy lake effect snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 4 to 7 inches, with localized amounts up to 9 inches, are expected. This extends into La…
Winter Weather Advisory Until 4pm
Here in Otsego we already have an inch of snow on the ground – makes all the Christmas lights look much better. I always wondered if our southern states ever miss the beauty of the snow – probably not. The feature image is from the Bittersweet webcam a mile down the road from me –…
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY -This Week in Weather History 12-3 to 12-9
We will see our first accumulating snow of the season here in southwest lower Michigan later today. There is a winter weather advisory (the areas in blue) beginning at 4pm today going through 4pm tomorrow for Mason-Lake-Oceana-Muskegon-Ottawa-Allegan-Van Buren-Kalamazoo counties. Snow showers are expected to increase later this afternoon and more so this evening. The snow…
Snowfall
For those of you interested in the science of snow here ya go: Snow cover is a part of the cryosphere, (where water is in solid form), which traces its origins to the Greek word kryos for frost. Snow is precipitation in the form of ice crystals. It originates in clouds when temperatures are…
Active Weather Today and Tonight
Well, all good things must come to and end. One could not ask for a better weekend as this past one with lots of sunshine and temperatures in the fifties. We probably won’t see the fifties again for awhile – I would say perhaps not until late March but, knowing how our last couple winters…
Winter Weather Safety
For those loyal customers of the Weather Coffee Shoppe if you haven’t noticed I closed it down December 1st – if you try to go there it automatically reverts to this site. I am still moving content from there to here – it is a time consuming process but most of the weather data is…
Welcome to winter 2017/18
As we start the new season it is a good time to see just what a “average” winter is like in Grand Rapids. And a time to look at some extremes for the season. The records below are for the months of December, January and February so some records like total snow fall are…