I spent a couple of hours outside enjoying the sun yesterday, we reached 52° which felt warm after the sub-freezing temps we had been experiencing. We will still be near 50 today though the sun will be covered and we will see some rain and drizzle around the area to close out the month of […]
On Monday we will flip the calendar to March and the start of meteorological spring. While some like the snow and cold of winter I like the warmth of late spring and summer. That is by far my favorite time of the year. During March we start out with 11 hours and 14 minutes […]
Plenty of sunshine is expected today. This will help boost temperatures to the low 40s for most locations. A light mix of rain, snow, and freezing rain will move through the area late tonight. Impacts to travel will be brief, especially as temperatures warm above freezing Saturday morning. Here is another item in my educational […]
I am adding some more educational materials to the site many are from AMS (American Meteorological Society) sources from their tutorials. I am a member of the AMS and have slowly been trudging my way towards certification. The document below is an explanation of the CPC climate outlooks: There is increasing confidence in model runs […]
I guess I am going to have to come up with better forecasts than what the NWS puts out in the morning, they were off by several degrees yesterday, we had a high temp of 46° with mostly sunny skies rather than the upper 30s predicted. I am thinking their computer spits out info as […]
We have a relatively warm 37° in Otsego at 6:30 this morning which is above normal for nighttime lows. I am almost to the point where I am tiring of having to dress up in a cacoon of multiple layers just to go outside. On the other hand, one can dress for colder temps but […]
We currently have a temp of 33° this morning at 7 am down from 35° at 3:30, which may be our high for today. Any snow we had from last night’s system has melted off. We are approaching the time of year when we transition to spring and perhaps a more turbulent weather pattern where […]
We have a cold 5.7° at 6:30 this morning with clear skies in Otsego. We had four inches of snowfall yesterday morning which brings us to 19.8 inches for the month and 39 inches for the season with more coming for tonight before we enter a period of warming temps beginning today lasting through the […]
Warm February Days From time to time there has been talk of the trend for “short” winters lately. In looking at past history there have been very few winters where it has been cold from the start to the end. That can be said for most summers as well as few have been “hot” from […]
In an extraordinary engineering feat, the 2,260-pound Perseverance rover touched down gently in a dried-out crater lake on Mars yesterday. I have been following the space program since Gemini (a long, long time ago) and am amazed at the engineering feats NASA and JPL have come up with over the decades. Landing a rover on […]