Once again we see the word ‘snow’ in our forecast and the Nordic gods laugh as they grudgingly give up a bit of their hoard from the Alpines (or not). We are still waiting for our first inch of the white stuff here in Allegan county, though if you added up all the trace amounts […]
Keep in mind when longer-range forecasts and outlooks are made our computer models are looking at systems in the Pacific and trying to guess their formation and track into the continental U.S. (CONUS). This is why the excitement (or trepidation) comes when snow is mentioned in a forecast and there is often a letdown or […]
Winter Solstice This year the winter solstice is on Monday the 21st at 5:02 AM. At that time Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun. The solstice happens at the same instant for all of us, everywhere on Earth. It’s when the sun on our sky’s dome reaches its farthest southward point […]
We had some light snow through most of the area yesterday, enough to barely cover the ground which melted off as quickly as it fell. The shovels, snowblowers and plows remain dormant in SW Michigan. The U.S. has 40.8% snow cover, up from 18% last month. New England has 81.2% snow cover from the storm […]
Time to put another log on the fire and sing along with Bing Crosby as we dream of a white Christmas which is now being suggested by long range guesses. We had a trace of snow yesterday and overnight of the snow globe variety, though nice to watch drifting to the ground not much of […]
Snow is likely south and east of Grand Rapids today though accumulations will be meager at best in the half-inch range for most of the area. This will be from the edge of a major winter storm system that will pass through the Virginias up into southern New England where up to two feet of […]
We have a current temp of 19° at 5 am this morning which is a good temp for snow if we had the moisture and west-northwest wind in place, but we don’t so we remain snowless in southwest Michigan. Long-range models are starting to pick up on a bit of snow for Christmas however, long-range […]
We had a brief snow shower in Otsego yesterday which produced a trace of snow. We reach a high of 38° and a low of 29°. Unless we have a major snowstorm we will end up well below normal in the snowfall department for December in SW Michigan. This week will remain cool and uneventful […]
After a wet system finally has exited Michigan another state of tranquility is in store for the week. Models are not looking good for snow on the ground in SW Michigan for Christmas or any exceptionally cold air for that matter. We had 1.90 inches of rain from the Friday night/Saturday system. Had it been […]
20 years ago. Last week I looked at the start of the winter season 100 years ago. This week I will look at the winter 20 years ago. November 2000 November 2000 started out on the mild side with the first 10 days mostly above average with the high for the month on the first […]