The latest CPC guess for March is out which is guessing warmer than normal temperatures and normal precipitation. The end of meteorological winter will end with (you guessed it) warmer than normal temperatures. This week will feature several days in the upper 40s to the low 50s until another brief cooldown at the end of […]
After another short cold snap things will look up once again temperature-wise in a continuance of our abnormal winter. Temperatures will warm to the low 50s by midweek with little if no precipitation in the outlook through Saturday. NWS Forecast Today Mostly cloudy, with a high near 33. Breezy, with a west-southwest wind of 16 […]
So far, the big stories for the winter of 2023/24 have been the mild almost snowless December. The 2 weeks of cold and snow in January saw not only the coldest temperatures of the winter, but a total of 30” of snowfall in just two weeks. And now February has had a very warm start. […]
Yesterday’s “snowstorm” left us with 1.5 inches of the white stuff in Otsego. This gives us a whopping 28.5 inches for the season thus far with two weeks left of meteorological winter. Light lake-effect snow is expected today through Sunday with notable colder temperatures this weekend. Little or no accumulation is expected. The cold won’t […]
We have a winter weather advisory until 11 am this morning. This quick-moving system will dump some heavy wet snow in the advisory area north of the I96 corridor where 2 to 8 inches will fall. Temperatures will warm to 35 to 40 this afternoon with breezy conditions. Farther south along I-94, brief freezing rain […]
First I would like to present the current ice and snow cover maps for the northern hemisphere, most of the snow is contained above the 45th latitude except in the Rocky Mountain area, the extreme northern CONUS, and the northeastern seaboard (from yesterdays snowstorm) Today will be mostly sunny to partly cloudy and dry with […]
There is a chance of some light snow north of I96 today other than that our snow drought continues thanks to the strong El Nino in place. Great Lake ice cover is only around 2% of normal for February. The CPC predicts ENSO neutral conditions in the April to June timeframe and La Nina developing […]
The sun is expected to make an appearance today to start a generally quiet week for SW Michigan. The next chance of precipitation does not come until Thursday. NWS Forecast Today Sunny, with a high near 42. Calm wind becoming west-southwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Tonight Partly cloudy, with a low of […]
The forecast for Las Vegas today is for sunny skies with a high of 54°. Kickoff time is at 6:30. For our area, the NWS forecast is for partly sunny skies with a high of near 40°. NWS Forecast Today Partly sunny, with a high near 39. Calm wind becoming west northwest 5 to 9 […]
While we are having one of the warmest starts to any February way back in 1899 it was a different story. Here in Grand Rapids one of the coldest stretches of cold happened. Starting on January 27, 1899 there were 21 days in a row of below average temperatures at Grand Rapids. On 15 of […]