On Easter Monday April 13, 1360 during what has be come known as the Hundred Years War there was a major battle. Now a little history leading up to this battle. England and France were involved in one conflict or another over many centuries. The Hundred Years War was fought in spurts from 1337 to […]
Today I am going to try to explain the differences between sleet, graupel, ice pellets and hail. Sleet occurs when snowflakes melt into a raindrop in a wedge of warm air well above the ground and then refreeze in a layer of freezing air just above the surface. This results in frozen raindrops, or small […]
Today’s info is on the wind, weather and ocean currents. Coastal currents are affected by local winds. Surface ocean currents, which occur on the open ocean, are driven by a complex global wind system. To understand the effects of winds on ocean currents, one first needs to understand the Coriolis force and the Ekman spiral. […]
Time to step away from the classroom and take a look at our weekly weather history feature: April 14 1953: It is a cold morning across Lower Michigan. Record low temperatures include the 20 degrees at Muskegon and the 21 degrees at Grand Rapids. April 15 1943: Temperatures plunge into the teens as snowflakes swirl […]
The ground is wet for sure and soil moisture values will increase the next few days with an unsettled weather pattern. From this mornings NWS discussion: – Showery activity will continue today and transition to low clouds and drizzle tonight into early Wednesday. – Showers and thunderstorms are expected north of I-96 and west of […]
It is 5am here at the Weather Center in Otsego – haven’t had a chance to get the ‘official’ precipitation readings yet as the liquid is frozen in my rain gauge. It is hard to say how much snow we had here as it was mostly a cold rain most of the day with some […]
First up we have a winter weather advisory in place from 7am this morning to 4am tomorrow. The color shaded areas show the percent of chances for 4 inches of snow – the red is the greatest chance, yellow the least. The area in red could see 4 to 7 inches of the white stuff. […]
I do not think this is top secret so I will post it. I have been summons for jury duty starting on Monday April 15th I have done this before but it was years ago back at the old Kent County Court house. I hope none of you are set to have a trial next […]
We have had a wet morning here in Michigan – 1.23 inches of rain thus far here in Otsego with a temp of 46° at 7am. We have covered a wide range of weather information over the past couple weeks and yes there will be a test come Monday so be prepared (just kidding but […]
This is a radar screenshot at 4:30 this morning – not generally what one would see in mid April. Our winter weather advisory for Allegan county expired as nothing really happened here however it remains in effect for Oceana, Newaygo, Muskegon, Montcalm, Ottawa, Kent, Ionia counties until 10am. There are recorded wind speeds in Iowa and […]