Most of the state will remain snow free today with the exception of Berrien county which has a winter storm warning in place until 9am tomorrow. Most of the heavier snow will fall closer to the Indiana border in the extreme south western portion of the county where up to five inches may fall. We […]
We close out the month of November this week and begin December with another boring period of weather for most of Michigan with the exception of the SE part of the state where some snow will fall tomorrow into Tuesday. Lake effect snows will be from around Benton Harbor to Chicago and the usual snow […]
December and Meteorological Winter You may hate it or love it but either way we are now about to enter meteorological winter. Of course, the months of December, January and February are the coldest months of the year here in west Michigan. In most winters they are the months with the most snow fall. Records […]
I was curious how many Christmases we had snow on the ground over the past few years I had time to go back to 2008. Seems we have had more green Christmases than white with little or no snow on the ground in the lower half of the Lower Penninsula. Nationally last year there was […]
In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Native Americans shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that […]
We had our first accumulating snow for November yesterday – half an inch here in Otsego. The snow began at 10:30 am and lasted to around noon before it turned to rain with a bit of sleet mixed in. Our high temp for yesterday rose to 39° after a low of 22°. We had a […]
We had a low temp of 22° overnight and temps are slowing rising this morning in advance of a system to our southwest which will be overspreading the state this morning. We have expectations of a touch of winter in the state today with snowfall accumulating in the upper-lower where there is a Winter Weather […]
Yesterday wasn’t the most pleasant day with a high of 38° and .14 of an inch of cold rain and drizzle (in Otsego). Some areas east had some snow which should melt away today. We have had 1.54 inches of rain and a trace of snow in the Otsego area this month with above-normal temps […]
Today I am going to look at the comparison of snow amounts in the CONUS (continental U.S.) over the past few years. We have a Winter Weather Advisory in the extreme S.E. of Michigan until 8 pm for up to four inches of snow which includes Detroit, Jackson and Ann Arbor. [columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] […]
It was 70 years ago and it was a wild month of November. While earlier then month we had a record setting warm spell. Note some would say “heat wave” but 70 years ago on November 25th was the date of the so called big ten football “Snow Bowl” The Michigan/Ohio State football game on […]