There are a lot of people who stop by here to check the weather and sometimes peek at that blog for the entertainment value and knowledge it provides. I was talking to a deacon I met yesterday from an area church and got a compliment on how easy it is to find weather info here…
We had a bit of mist and sprinkle overnight, enough to put .03 of an inch in the rain gauge. One thing to keep in mind in regards to your rain gauge is to empty out any dew measurements it may have accumulated over night. CoCoRaHS doesn’t need to know how much dew a location…
I really have been enjoying this early fall weather – it is a welcome change from the heat we have experienced this past summer. The heat will be returning however so don’t put away the air conditioners yet. I finished tearing off the old wood from my deck last week and found that it makes…
With the Hurricane season now underway it is a good time to look at the Hurricane category’s History The scale was developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Robert Simpson, who at the time was director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center. The scale was introduced to the general public in…
We have a cool pattern setting up for today on through the weekend, our best chance of rain is today but I don’t expect much – maybe a tenth of an inch or less if any. Temps will be in the upper 60s to low 70s through next Monday before we have another warm up…
Looking at the area temps this morning there a few readings in the 30s around Cadillac. Grayling airfield is 34°, Green Lake is at 38° and 39 at the Alpena Regional Airport. Our readings here in the south are generally in the mid to upper 40s. We can expect our pleasant temps to be around…
Not much going on for the rest of the week weather wise with the exception of a lakeshore flood advisory through tomorrow afternoon for the lakeshore counties. Sunny and pleasant weather for today with a hint of fall in the air. I finally finished my deck project yesterday which required removing an replacing all the surface…
We currently have a large area of rain moving into the northern lower at 4:30 this morning — not seeing anything severe on the Radarscope images but there is some lightning involved. Most of lower Michigan is in the slight risk area for severe weather today with the main threats being large hail, damaging winds…
First up is the August summary from NOAA. As you can see our temps were near normal as a whole, the thing that stands out are the precipitation numbers. Most of the rain we had for August were of the hit and miss popup variety or lines of storms which which formed then fizzed before…
Welcome to the first day of meteorological fall. Actually autumn is much easier to say and write. Autumn is the season of the year that is the transition period from summer to winter, occurring as the sun approaches the winter solstice. Meteorological autumn (different from standard/astronomical autumn) begins September 1 and ends November 30. Fall…