Well, the excitement of heavy lake effect snow has once again floundered as the atmospheric conditions don’t have enough energy to set it in motion. We may see a couple inches or so along the lakeshore counties tomorrow and Wednesday before temps warm once again into the upper 30s by the end of the week….
With the cold air moving in by mid week and slick travel a possibility in west Michigan it is time for a refresher coarse in driving. It still amazes me that people drive on the freeway during a snow event as if there isn’t any snow at all. Icing of the road is very dangerous…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the assassination of President Kennedy. This week I will touch on a earlier date that change the course of American history. At 7:55 a.m. HST (12:22 EST) . A swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes descending on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in a ferocious assault….
Excitement (or dread) builds with the anticipated cold air predicted to come in next week. As of this writing I am seeing west winds moving across lake Michigan at 20 knots (23mph) or better Tuesday and Wednesday. This would give the Grand Rapids to Kalamazoo area snow – still to early to predict snowfall amounts…
Snow is most common in high altitudes and high latitudes, particularly among the mountainous regions of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Annually, snow covers as much as 46 million square kilometers (about 17.8 million square miles), particularly over North America, Greenland, Europe, and Russia. Seasonal snow cover can cover up to 33 percent of the…
Yesterday I posted average snow fall for the U.S., tomorrow I will post snow fall amounts for the world – you may be surprised where the largest amounts fall which greatly surpass those in the U.S.. First we have our weekly weather history for Michigan: Weather History December 1 2006: A snow and ice storm…
Below are the snowiest places in the U.S. – snowfall amounts are averages not records. Mt. Rainier has recorded over 1200 inches (102 feet) of snow which fell between February 19, 1971, and February 18, 1972. That is equal to the height of a 10-story building! Weather stations with highest snowfall in the United…
We are now coming into a more ‘pleasant’ weather pattern for this week – we should even see the sun make an appearance later today! Temps in SW Michigan should be in the mid 30s to near 40 most of the week. No snowstorms seem apparent at this time. The main Arctic airmass remains locked…
Seems fitting we have begun winter with a coating of sloppy wet snow on the ground in Otsego. The temp is currently 33° at 6am. [columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] These are the current snow cover maps for north America and the northern hemisphere – the snow cover will creep southward into lower Michigan today. [columns]…
We are now soon going to flip the calendar to December and the start of the winter season it is now time to look back at some top ten’s for December and some past extreme winters For December the average mean (1981-2010) is 29.2° this is warmer then the 1971-2000 mean of 27.6° The warmest…