For you courageous souls who participate in Black Friday deals at the stores, good luck to you. I am not one to face the crowds let alone those on the one day of the year when many can be rabid to experience deep price cuts. We had a peaceful Thanksgiving yesterday, however it is my…
This is the day we pause from our hectic lives to give thanks for all the things for which we are blessed. We all have been through periods in our lives when we struggled with day to day living and most fight back through dire circumstances to achieve the goals we have put in place…
We have a balmy 52° at 5am this morning with heavy rain going on. 52 will be our high for today and will fall throughout the day. I haven’t ventured out this morning to check the rain gauge I will have to post that later. We had some thunder and lightning overnight which was an…
With the coming of Meteorological Winter next week I thought I would give a quick reminder of what the polar vortex is. A polar vortex is an upper-level low-pressure area lying near the Earth’s poles. There are two polar vortices in the Earth’s atmosphere, overlying the North and South Poles. The breaking off of part…
Pleasant is a relative term in regards to late fall weather. I was crawling around my roof yesterday putting up the Christmas lights and cleaning the gutters. We had very little wind and the temp on the roof was probably over 50° with the sun shining on it – I ended up taking my coat…
Good morning to you all. Hard to believe we are closing out the month of November this week and the last week of meteorological fall. Yesterday our high was 39° with partly cloudy skies. All in all it appears to be a fairly decent week shaping up with the exception of some more rain and…
I know that there are many who think that the state of our world is a lot worse today then it was in the past but is it really? In every one’s life there are some dates that stick into your mind for the rest of your life. One of those dates in my mind…
Yesterday we reached 51° in Otsego with .52 of an inch of rain. This is traditionally the weekend I climb up on the roof to install all the Christmas lights on the house, my wife puts lights on our split rail fence which spans our property on the south side. All in all it looks…
Our next post is on Catatumbo lightning to add to our series on peculiar weather phenomenon. You will only be able to see this event in Venezuela where the Catatumbo River empties into Lake Maracaibo. Sometimes referred to as Venezuela’s “eternal thunderstorm,” the Catatumbo Lightning doesn’t actually fire nonstop, but for at least a few centuries, it…
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…