Though not unheard of this has been a gloomy wet pattern we have been in and we will rejoice in any sunshine which comes our way. We have been teased by the sunshine which momentarily breaks through the clouds over the past several days. Below are the stats from Bill Seffen: “This is the cloudiest […]
1965 I remember the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak real well. We were at my sisters house for Sunday dinner that day and as it was the first warm day of a very cold summer I spent most of the day outside. I still remember the green sky off to the southwest in the late afternoon. […]
We have expectations of another cool, wet and gloomy day for SW Michigan, with intermittent rain or snow showers today and Saturday, a warmup is on the way for early next week. However, it will come with its own chances of rain showers or an occasional thunderstorm. We managed 47° yesterday and a low of […]
We saw .68 of an inch of rain yesterday bringing us to 1.49 inches for a wet start to April. I put down my first application of fertilizer on the lawn yesterday to halt the growth of dandelions and crabgrass. Yes, I saw the first dandelion of the year yesterday. Next will be the grub […]
Yesterday tuned out to be pleasant with a high temp of 58° and a low of 33°. The CPC guesses seem to be ever-changing so we won’t even get into that this morning. We have a 100% chance of rain today which is moving into the area as I write this at 5 am. Weather […]
Yesterday we managed 52° after a morning low temp of 37° with a couple of peeks of the sun in the afternoon. Today will be the warmest day of the month so far. High temperatures are expected to reach near 60 in Kalamazoo, but mostly in the 50s elsewhere. Rain is expected overnight and it […]
Another round of rain and snow is expected today for much of Lower Michigan. Accumulations of 1–4 inches are expected for areas along and north of I-96, with most snow falling between 7 AM and noon. Where heaviest snow falls, snow-covered/slippery roads are expected. Farther south, snowfall will be considerably less, with mainly wet roads. […]
Well, if April showers bring May flowers we are off to a good start. We had .24 of an inch of rain yesterday and .19 from April 1st. This time of year most are pining for warmer temps with seed catalogs in hand we scope out what we would like to plant this year. I […]
Last week there was a discussion as to how the winter of 2021/22 will go down in history. I made the comment that it was a rather “typical near average” winter season. There was some disagreement on that and one of the tools that was used in that disagreement was The Midwestern Regional Climate […]
After a quick taste of spring, we started on the downward slope back to winter with snow and colder than normal temps. Yesterday’s high was 56.5° which quickly fell after sunrise into the 30s. We ended up with 1.15 inches of rain and a tenth of an inch of snow from this last system to […]