Good morning. The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 36/31 there was a reported 0.01” of precipitation and 0.1” of snow fall. At 7 AM there was a trace of snow on the ground but that melted rapidly. For today the average H/L is 30/18 The record high of 61 was in 1906 and […]
We lost another great musician yesterday, David Crosby, a folk-rock pioneer and one of the founding members of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, has died, he was 81. He joins Jeff Beck, Fred White from Earth Wind and Fire, and Robbie Bachman from Bachman Turner Overdrive, who are all joined together in […]
A cold Rain This January has been very warm and it looks like the last week will determine just how it will rank in the warmest and least snowy on record. So far this month has a mean of 34.6 at Grand Rapids and just 0.6” of snow fall. The record warmest in history is […]
We all wish Michael the very best today and know that he will be back doing his blog is a few days. Next week’s weather history. January 21 1984: The temperature hits a record low of 15 below zero at Grand Rapids for the second consecutive day. The temperature at Lansing only manages to reach […]
I will be going to Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo tomorrow morning to have some work done to my heart. Not sure how long I will be in there, but hopefully not more than a couple of days. I will leave this blog in Slim’s capable hands for the duration. Look for occasional rain showers to […]
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Two events I remember from 1963 are the I have a dream speech of Martin Luther King Jr. and the assassination of John Kennedy. This was a year of race riots in the south which reached as far north as Detroit. I have always held in my heart that all […]
We can expect filtered sunshine through high-level cloudiness today as temperatures push toward a high near 40 degrees. This somewhat boring weather pattern should break into a more active tendency towards rain then perhaps some snow in the Thursday timeframe though the track of that system is still up in the air. With the exception […]
Good morning. Even though yesterday with a low of 24 was one of the coolest days so far this month it was still warmer than average. The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 35/24 that 24 was just before midnight. There was a trace of snow fall, no sunshine and no snow on the […]
There are many models we look at when trying to predict long-range forecasts. To be sure there is no certainty they will play out as we wish to see them. There are a few of the models which are predicting a long-term cold shot from the polar vortex in late January into February. This begins […]
Yesterday Jeff Beck passed away. He was one of the original members of the Yardbirds which also featured Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. He then formed the Jeff Beck Group with frontman Rod Stewart. I believe his last album was with Johnny Depp released last year. He was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall […]