Last week we looked how leap day unfolded in years past. With today being leap day and the last day of February it is now time to look and see what can be expected for not only March but the meteorological spring as well. March Over the 31 days of March Grand Rapids gains about […]
The birds are singing, the squirrels and chipmunks are frolicking vocalizing their belief that spring is near and the snow is to become a distant memory, or is it? Models are crunching their binary numbers coming up with warmer than normal temps as well as they can ascertain being mere machines in a human world. […]
Snowed nearly all day yesterday off and on here in Otsego giving us around 4 for inches to add to our winter total. We are now up to 36.3 inches for the season. I am hoping for another 4 inches to get up to a meager 40 inches. Most of this has come from synoptic […]
We picked up another 1.5 inches of snow overnight adding to our meager snowfall for the season. We haven’t broken 40 inches yet in Otsego for the winter. The winter weather advisory continues until 7 pm this evening. Snow will diminish for a time early this morning but increase again after sunrise. The heaviest snow is […]
We continue to watch the progress of the developing storm system which is once again giving a more southerly track from the model data posted yesterday afternoon. Clinton, Barry, Eaton, Ingham, Van Buren, Kalamazoo, Calhoun and Jackson counties for total snow accumulations of 3 to 6 inches possible. The heaviest snow is likely to be […]
Yesterday we reached 51° with the sun shining all day. At the end of my post on Sunday, I said “This week will feature a more active pattern as clouds increase tonight bringing in rain or mix Monday night and Tuesday. In the second half of the week, the colder air returns with the possibility […]
This is a post to help explain (I hope) what causes weather patterns. Our atmosphere is a complex system that can be hard to explain and predict pattern movement more than a few days out. The system of weather prediction of these currents of the air has a complex mathematical formula that computers try to […]
Once every 4 years there is a day added to the shortest month of the year of course that is February. And this year is of course Leap Year. Here is a brief description on how the years were picked for this event. Leap years are those years divisible by 4, except for century years […]
I thought I would start an off weather topic on another of my favorite topics – music. I have been an audiophile since I bought my first stereo system with lots of power and (gasp) a turntable. Nowadays most music is purchased as mp3 files which are compressed stripped-down versions of recordings. The best music, […]
This is a topic I thought I would revisit as it has been so prevalent this winter. Wind is simply air in motion. Usually in meteorology, when we are talking about the wind it is the horizontal speed and direction we are concerned about. For example, if you hear a report of a west wind […]