Our current winter weather advisory expires at noon today for Montcalm-Gratiot-Kent-Ionia-Clinton-Allegan-Barry-Eaton and Ingham counties. Snow will continue into mid-morning being locally heavy at times in the I-69 area and the I-94 corridor between now and 7 am with snowfall rates of up to half-inch an hour. We have 2.5 inches of new snow at 5:30 […]
As I said the other day, we are in the last gasp of winter but we will hit a bump in the road between now and through the weekend before temps warm back up to reasonable levels. Not much longer before the snow blowers can be tucked in for the season and the lawn tractors […]
We have another calm day today. We will see a weak cold front moving through today with little or no snow with the exception of weak snow showers well up north. Our best chance of snow of the winter’s last gasp will come late Friday into Saturday though to me it doesn’t look very significant […]
Not much to talk about weather-wise today as far as snow or storms go. Our spring transition continues. March can have a little of everything so we enjoy our quiet days as we can get them. Yesterday our high was 36° and the low 31°. We had .9 of an inch of wet snow which […]
We have some light snow falling in Otsego at 5:30 this morning with a temp of 32°. Yesterday’s high was 61° at midnight and the low was 32°, rainfall was .13 of an inch. We have a winter weather advisory in place for the following counties: Mason-Lake-Osceola-Clare-Oceana-Newaygo-Mecosta-Isabella-Muskegon-Montcalm-Gratiot-Ottawa-Kent-Ionia-Clinton until 3 pm. Midland-Bay-Huron-Saginaw-Tuscola-Sanilac-Shiawassee-Genesee & Lapeer counties until […]
We definitely have more than a breezy morning. The wind is howling with a few sprinkles and a temp of 52° at 6 am. We don’t get good wind readings down here in the valley but our highest gust was 20 mph so far. If I went up to the city I am sure gusts […]
In 1976 I still worked and lived in the Bay City area. I was at work on the night of the start of the biggest ice storm to hit much of Michigan. The great ice storm struck Lower Michigan on March 2nd and 3rd 1976. The ice storm is still the worst widespread ice storm […]
We have a cold 17° at 6 this morning with promises of warmer temps through the weekend. Yesterday’s high was 32° with a low of 20°. With the exception of Bittersweet, most of the snow has disappeared in Allegan County. It will be a cold start to the day today with many locations in the […]
Yesterday we had a high temp of 45° and a low of 22° with just a trace of drizzle in the afternoon. We should see more sun today than yesterday though temps will only be around 30°. Looking at the short-term forecast we may see 60° on Saturday and the mid-50s on Sunday before crashing […]
Yesterday was a pleasant first day of met spring. Our high was 45° and the low was 27° in Otsego. Our high for the winter months was on 12/16/21 with 64°, the low was on 2/13/22 with -3.5°. After some morning sun to start the day, it will become cloudy by noon. Rain and snow […]