November 17 1989: Grand Rapids picks up seven inches of snow, bringing accumulations during a three day storm to over a foot. 2013: A squall line of severe thunderstorms moved through Lower Michigan during the afternoon bringing widespread wind damage. Hundreds of trees were knocked down and thousands lost power from downbursts and brief tonadoes […]
This is the second of the strange weather phenomenon series – just as gravity waves this is one we generally don’t hear about in the weather reports. A katabatic wind (is the technical name for a drainage wind, a wind that carries high-density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force of […]
My next series is on peculiar weather events – the first in the series is the phenomenon of gravity waves which I have heard of but not researched until now. Gravity Waves are physical perturbations driven by the restoring force of gravity in a planetary environment. In other words, gravity waves are specific to planetary atmospheres […]
I often wondered what the Meteorologists in southern California talk about for their daily forecasts – for example this week they are expecting mostly sunny skies all week with the exception of Wednesday, as a matter of fact they are only expecting rain that one day out of the next ten. I suspect they rarely […]
We are now at the half way point of November 2019 and it sure has been a cold one. Mid month summery. At the half way point one can say this November first half has been cold. At this time the mean temperature at GRR is 32.4° (-10.9°) if this were to hold this would […]
First of all thanks for all the opinions on the state of congress yesterday – as always your opinion matters, this is a free country and we are all allowed to think and form our own opinions as long as they are educated notions on what is going on. Generally I stay away from politics […]
Our local TV Mets in Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids have released their winter forecast guesses, all are calling for a mainly back loaded winter, meaning most of our snow and cold will be in the January through March time frame with some snow events hanging around into early April. All are consistent with their forecasts […]
A balmy 14° this morning at 7am in Otsego with a feels like temp of 8°. Yesterday our high was 24° with trace amounts of snow. The big story are the snowfall amounts along the lakeshore counties shown below from the NWS. Snow will pick up in intensity this afternoon and continue both tonight and […]
Our snowfall in Otsego was 4.5 inches yesterday with a dusting overnight. Temp is currently 17° at 7:30am under clear skies. The heaviest lake effect snow is currently falling from a line from Grand Haven to Holland with the snow band stretching down to Gobles. This band is expected to move inland this afternoon before […]
First up: happy Veterans Day to all of those who serve or have served in the armed forces. Thanks to all of you who have given your time to protect this great land of ours. My father in law served in the Pacific Campaign during WW2 and we heard the many stories of the horrors […]