As January comes to a close I bring you the weather history for the end of the month into February. January 28 1977: Buffalo, New York is hit with the worst blizzard in its history. Meanwhile, lake effect snow squalls also pummel areas in western Lower Michigan with more than a foot of fresh snow […]
Today I have a service awards banquet to go to – 35 years at Perrigo Company. For those of you who don’t know what Perrigo is – it is the largest OTC pharmaceutical company in the world with multiple facilities in the U.S., Ireland, Mexico, China, Israel, India and Australia. The picture to the left […]
We have light snow over the area this morning – a few spots near Lansing saw around 6 inches of snow early on! It is interesting to see the radar over Lansing showing the snow rotating from northeast to south west pretty much hanging out over that area. There is a winter weather advisory for […]
Not a whole lot to talk about in the short term snow wise. Temperatures will return to what would be expected for January after enjoying the warmth of this past week with rain and even some lightning – we have been enjoying some sun which we usually don’t see a lot of this time of […]
The Black Hills area can experience spectacular temperature variations. Day-to-day changes occur as cold and warm fronts cross the northern Plains. However, temperature ranges across the area at a given time can be just as great. They happen rapidly as the wind direction changes, most notably the warming Chinook winds that have given the Black […]
The blizzard of 1978 remain in the minds of many of us who were alive back then as the white monster which shut down the state of Michigan and the Ohio Valley. I was 22 at the time and had moved from Maine four years earlier (1974). I had experienced strong winter nor’easters which could […]
A quiet weather pattern is setting up for the next couple days with warming temperatures and some sun making an appearance from time to time. This will lull us into a false sense of security before the next storm system moves in bringing with it some snow. Indications are we will see another Arctic outbreak […]
January 21 1984: The temperature hits a record low of 15 below zero at Grand Rapids for the second consecutive day. The temperature at Lansing only manages to reach zero degrees during the day. January 22 1883: Bitter cold arctic air sends the temperature down to 14 below zero at Lansing and 8 below at […]
With the warmer air comes the dreaded brown marmorated stink bugs. In our area these critters seem to be running rampant the past couple years – my wife and I have been plucking them of the ceilings and walls the past few days and putting them back outside. You don’t want to squish them as […]
[columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] [columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] These are the CPC updates as of yesterday. We have equal chances of above or below normal temperatures and about a 50% chance of above normal precipitation for February. For the long range outlook (February – March and April) we have about a 40% chance of below […]