Late February-Ice Storm Next Week? As we head into the last full week of February it is a good time to see what has happened in the last week in February in the past. 2016 that February saw very little snow the first 18 days and on the 19th the temperature shot up to 61 […]
We had a sloppy mess here yesterday in Otsego with freezing rain and sleet to start the festivities then less than an inch of snow to cover that. The storm system that generated the snow, sleet, and freezing rain on Thursday will continue to pull away from the region today. It will be slick to […]
We have a Winter Weather Advisory for most of the lower peninsula today for a mixed bag of precipitation. At this point areas to the north of Grand Rapids will see most of the snow while to the south we will see a mix of snow and sleet. Precipitation will arrive in Lower Michigan as […]
We had a nice spring-like day yesterday, our temperature here at the station was 55°! We still have 53° at 5 am this morning. Today will be windy with diminishing showers. The temperature will fall through the 40’s. Another system will bring accumulating snow and a wintry mix to parts of Lower Michigan on Thursday […]
With all the hype of balloons and other UFOs cruising in our skies, I thought it would be a good time for a post on weather balloons which are launched into the skies twice a day. There are currently more than 800 radiosonde sites worldwide, with the United States/National Weather Service running or supporting 92 […]
As an update to yesterday’s post, NOAA did get an upgrade to their supercomputers last year. They replace NOAA’s previous Cray and IBM supercomputers in Reston, Virginia, and Orlando, Florida. The computers serve as a primary and backup for the seamless transfer of operations from one system to another. Each supercomputer operates at a speed […]
Welcome to Super Bowl Sunday! Super Bowl LVII will feature the American football championship game of the National Football League for the 2022 season. It will be played between the American Football Conference champion Kansas City Chiefs and the National Football Conference champion Philadelphia Eagles, kickoff will be at 6:30. Who will win? For me, […]
An Odd Winter Boy, this has been one very odd winter season. While Grand Rapids has recorded 81.5” of snow fall most of that fell in 3 events. The first one was November 15 to the 20th the 2nd event was December 15th to the 18th with a 3 day break and then the 22nd […]
We had about an inch and a half of rain yesterday in Otsego – this is not the ‘official’ total, I won’t get out to the rain gauge until after sunrise. Our high was 47°. Our snow pack is gone once again. We can expect another cloudy day today with a few flurries. The sun […]
This will be more of an early spring-like day than winter with temperatures rising into the low 50s and copious amounts of rain with the chance of a thunderstorm possible. The winds will pick up this afternoon thus a wind advisory will be in place. …WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING […]