Well, we all knew it was coming with the days becoming shorter and cooler nights due to the lower azimuth of the sun. The autumnal equinox doesn’t begin until September 22. Today is the end of meteorological summer. Today the sunrises at 7:07 am and sets at 8:18 pm in Otsego. By the end of […]
We had copious amounts of rain in the Otsego/Plainwell area Friday through Saturday morning. We had 3.26 inches here at the station which brought our total to 5.29 inches for the month of August and is now the wettest month of the summer. We are now at 11.68 inches for the season. Below are the […]
We are now in the last weekend of August 2020 and the end of meteorological summer. I know there will be some who will point out that it will stay warm and summer does not end until September 22nd But for weather keeping purposes we will enter meteorological fall on Tuesday. That said as of […]
The various models I have looked at are all over the place in precipitation accumulation for today probably because it is hard to guess where the heaviest storms may develop. The NAM NEST is guessing the cold front will move through this evening around sunset thus we have chances of storm development any time today. […]
We are now coming into a more active weather pattern which will be a welcome change after the warm dry period we have been experiencing much of the summer. For many areas, this will be the first decent rainfall we have seen since around the 11th. In our area, we have had only three times […]
We managed a mere .10 of an inch of rain yesterday which brings us to 2.03 inches for August. There is a large area of rain moving through the eastern half of the state this morning from the Straits down to Detroit. Nothing for SW Michigan. We have an Air Quality Alert for Muskegon, Ottawa, […]
We have an area of rain and storms moving S.E. out of Wisconsin across the lake this morning. Should it all hold together SW Michigan should see a wet period through the morning hours. The SPC has southern Michigan in the marginal outlook area for severe weather for today. Point forecasts for SW Michigan are […]
If we didn’t have the Great Lakes to talk about in our area our weather predictions would have been a boring matter this summer. I suppose in summation one would have to say “sunny and warm” as a wrapup for the past three months. Dry would also factor into the report – the last time […]
We have the dubious interest of the first time in modern history of having two tropical storms heading for the Gulf states at the same time. This is not good news for the folks in the southern states which surround the Gulf of Mexico as this is double trouble for them in regards to damaging […]
Last week I wrote about Iceland, this week I will give you a little information on Death Valley. Where for the 2nd in recorded history a reading of 130 or better was recorded. Death Valley is desert valley in eastern California. Badwateris the point of lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet below sea […]