March so far has been warmer than normal, much sunnier than normal, and among the top 5 to 10 driest in the past 120 years of records at Grand Rapids, Lansing, Muskegon, and Kalamazoo. Many areas have seen only around a tenth of an inch of precipitation this month. Dry air and dead vegetation will […]
A blast From the Past Over the years there have been some big snowstorms on or near St Patrick’s day. In 2014 parts of the mid-Atlantic got walloped. Washington, D.C., received 7.2 inches of snow and for Washington that was some storm. As the 10th-largest March storm in Washington, D.C., it knocked the historic blizzard […]
We ended up with .02 of an inch of rain yesterday bringing us to .12 for the month of March. If we set any records for the month it will be in the sunshine category with more to come. Another record may be the lack of rain and snow. I hate to jinx anything but […]
This has been a dry month thus far, we have recorded a tenth of an inch so far in Otsego. The rain has been meager from the system passing through this morning, I am not expecting more than a few 100ths of an inch, The big story today will be the wind. We have a […]
We should see some sunshine today with warmer temps. While mild with some sun in the south, central to northern portions of Lower Michigan will see rain develop, possibly mixing with snow. Rain will become more likely in southern Michigan tonight. Winds will increase tonight and be blustery on Thursday. Some scattered power outages are […]
Our Winter Weather Advisory ends at 10 am this morning. All we had here was a few flakes of snow and freezing rain which amounted to little less than a trace. This has been a dry month thus far with only a tenth of an inch of precipitation. Predicted QPF values have been lacking as […]
I don’t know how many times I have to explain the variability of weather currents in the great ocean of our atmosphere when it comes to trying to predict the weather for any particular day. We can try to predict what may or may not happen a week from today but ultimately one small change […]
If you haven’t done so yet set those clocks ahead one hour no matter how much it peeves or excites you it is a reality as we move forth from the past to the present into the future our manipulation of time has caused us an hour loss of sleep. I could get into the […]
It seems like it was just yesterday that we set the clocks back to winter time and now it is time to reset them (the clocks) to summer time. There was a time when Michigan was on EST time for the whole year and in the mid or late 1960’s we started going on EDT […]
Though not impossible it is beginning to look like accumulating snow of any consequence is becoming less and less as we travel further into spring. Our last snows were on the 23rd and 27th of February with an inch and a half between the two. We received around a tenth of an inch of rain […]