The main story for this week is the freeze warnings covering all of Michigan. Snow is expected to accumulate to 1 to 3 inches in the I-69 area later this afternoon into early tonight. The heavier snow amounts will be near I-80 in Indiana and Ohio. The more significant story will be the freezing temperatures […]
At this time the projected path of our Tuesday storm system bringing snow to the area has moved further south. Grand Rapids won’t see much more than an inch (or less) while Kalamazoo is forecast to get around three inches of the white stuff. Point forecasts are showing a couple of inches for Lansing and […]
Throughout the history of the world, we have variations of our climate from warm to cold and wet to dry. We can blame some of the variations due to human impacts especially when coal was the main fuel for industry. Some can be blamed on our own planet when volcanoes erupt spewing ash into the […]
I know we all have our own opinions as to the weather in different parts of the world such as it is hot and humid in Florida in the summer (it is) that it is cold in Alaska (for the most part it is) that it rans all the time in the Northwest […]
This spring has brought a lot of ants and ticks which I believe have been brought about by the dryer than normal conditions. After 17 years underground, more than a billion Brood X cicadas will emerge this spring across parts of the United States. Dryer than normal conditions will hopefully keep the mosquito populations in […]
After today it appears we will enter into another extended period of mainly dry conditions. We have some rain and snow showers moving through the central lower this morning though it will not amount to much, just a hundredth of an inch or so. We have had .92 of an inch for the month here […]
We begin a pattern shift to cooler than normal temps today struggling to reach 50° with a chance of (gasp) rain and snow showers overnight into Thursday morning. This cooler pattern will exist into early next week and perhaps beyond. [columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] Weather History for SW Michigan April 11 1965: The second […]
With winter gone and cold temps fallen by the wayside, it is time for allergy sufferers like myself to get stocked up on decongestants and allergy meds so our heads don’t explode. This is the time of year when trees release their pollen. On an average day, pollen counts rise during the morning, peak about […]
It appears we will be entering another dry period with below normal rainfall over the next couple of weeks with temps below normal also. This tells me we could have another stretch of high-pressure domination and a southern jet which will block any systems from moving into Michigan keeping them well south of the state. […]
We have a meandering low-pressure system located near Chicago this morning which brought us a nice soaking rain yesterday and will bring us scattered showers throughout today though not as numerous as yesterday. We had .55 of an inch yesterday and briefly reached 73° in Otsego. We won’t see any 70° temps this week with […]