Here we are at the end of meteorological summer. I will let Slim our great statistician give you the standings and comparisons to how we stack up against previous summers but it isn’t hard to deny we had a warm one indeed. August ended our dry spell – we had 6.67 inches here in Otsego […]
August 26 2000: Heavy rain and high winds produce scattered damage and some flooding. The roof of a bowling alley near Jackson was damaged by an apparent microburst. Roads were closed due to flooding across southern Kalamazoo County. August 27 1948: A late season heat wave with eight straight days in the 90s at Grand […]
Feature image was sent in by SS and the hail photo from Barry (Zeeland), thanks. If you have photos email them to me – link is in the sidebar. We had a lot of thunder and lightning here in Otsego – my lightning detector was going nuts. We received 3.33 inches yesterday and .19 thus […]
Up at 4:30am this morning. Once I wake up it is hard for me to get back to sleep – must be the anticipation of the day. I have some Miles Davis playing – I was raised on blues and jazz. Can’t beats Miles, Monk and Coltrane. I have a tube pre amp running into […]
Wild night From Grand Rapids to the north. WOOD is reporting power outages from winds. A 66 mph gust was recorded at Muskegon, a 55 mph gust at Grand Haven and 53 mph south of Fremont. Consumers outage map can be found here. As of 6:30am these are the reported outages: Ionia County: 982 Kent […]
This is the day one outlook from the SPC, it is linked back the the SPC site so it should update if it changes. It shows we are in the marginal risk for storm activity. Marginal, Slight, Enhanced, Moderate, and High risks represent progressively larger threats for organized severe storm episodes. These risks, along with […]
There has been much talk as to how warm this summer has been. So this week I will take a look and see if there is some kind of trend. Here is what I have found out. In looking at Grand Rapids recorded history. In going back to 1897 (yes, the records go back to […]
The main event for the U.S. today is hurricane Lane which continues to approach Hawaii. There are already reports of over 30 inches of rain in the islands. From the NWS in Honolulu: Catastrophic flooding continues on the Big Island today as dangerous Hurricane Lane creeps northward a couple of hundred miles south of Honolulu. […]
I love mornings such as these. I get up early (with the chickens and birds) brew some coffee and put on some classical or old jazz and enjoy the peace. Retirement is grand – I can do what I want when I want to (with the exception of this site which I update religiously at […]
If anything this summer will go down in the history books as a hot one which will change our historic norms temperature wise. Some blame climate change though I don’t hold to that opinion as we have had hot summers in the past. Our hot summer this year has been caused by the jet stream […]