With our non remarkable weather pattern I find it is time to bring out some reminisces and other materials to fill this space… It is amazing all the terminology which has come about the past decade or so for largish snow storms. Even though Arctic Vortex has been around for quite some time the term…
Mark thought it would be a good idea to recycle my Boring post from last week, however as with any weather pattern the determination of blah or boring can mean different things – the main point is that there is nothing to get excited about over the next week. Blah is used to refer to…
I have lived in 3 locations in my life time (Alpena, Michigan. Bay City, Michigan and Grand Rapids, Michigan). In my very early life time I live in Alpena, Michigan I was very young and of course I did not keep any kind of records from back then. We moved to Bay City Michigan…
The storm track has pushed well south of Michigan into the southern plains where the most active pattern is setting up and high pressure will rule the central and northern U.S. through the weekend into early next week. This makes for an exceptionally boring period for weather forecasters who must dig deep for interesting tidbits…
Now that we are into meteorological winter with chances of above normal temperatures and little or no snow predicted through the next couple weeks, we have to keep in mind as the polar vortex moves north it will have a chance to build up some really cold air as it lurks about in Canada, Russia…
These are photos I took this morning at one of our feeding stations (click to enlarge) – as you can see it is a free for all with squirrels, morning doves and other birds competing for food. My wife fills these daily and you can see why. The tree is one we planted over 20…
Some light to moderate snow falling this morning at 6am – looks nice in the mercury light in my side yard. The best accumulations will be west of 131 with maybe an inch or so. We have chances of snow showers through Friday then the sun will be the main feature for an extended period…
If you read NWS discussions for the U.S. you can see they divided the continent into sections for their forecasts as seen in the feature graphic. This is from the NOAA short range discussion for this week: The short range period begins in a relatively quiet weather pattern across much of the lower 48 as…
It has always been my feeling that when all the greenery has left and the leaves have fallen we should have a nice blanket of snow on the ground to cover the death of summer. There is something to be said of the purity of the white which covers the dull browns of the landscape…
After the cold and gloom of November we now settle into December facing a similar pattern of little sunshine and polar air from the north through at least mid month. This morning is a good example of wanting to stay inside with the fog enshrouding the land from the melting snow. Daylight is now around…