Yesterday we had a high of 70° and a low of 40°. This week and most of the rest of the month is predicted to be mainly warm and dry. The only chance for rainfall this week may come this weekend from tropical storm 6 now developing in the western Gulf of Mexico. Temperatures this […]
With a weekend of fall-like temperatures, the climate will turn once again to hot and dry conditions for the upcoming week with no chance of rain forecast. Yesterday we had breezy conditions with a high of 64° and a low of 44°. This morning we are 40° at 6 am. After an extended period of […]
While it has been rather calm hurricane season so far but with the Hurricane season now underway it is a good time to look at the Hurricane Saffir- Simpson scale. History The scale was developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Robert Simpson, who at the time was director of the U.S. […]
We will see partly sunny skies today with much cooler temperatures in store. We saw less than a tenth of an inch of rain overnight. We haven’t had a decent rainfall for 20 days so it is getting a bit dry. According to the CPC, most of the rest of the month will be dry […]
We have a warm day in store with temperatures in the 80s. Clouds will increase and rain will develop overnight with a tenth to a quarter inch expected. Temperatures will be cooling down into the 60s on Friday and Saturday before we begin another sunny and dry period for next week. Weather History 1997: Cool […]
Another sunny day is in store with temperatures continuing to warm up. Enjoy them because the climate is going to turn for the weekend giving us a good taste of fall. We will see sunny skies today and tomorrow with temperatures in the low 80s today and the mid-80s tomorrow. We have a chance of […]
We have now gone 17 days with only .17 of an inch of rain in the Otsego area. Yesterday we had a high temperature of 75° and a low of 45.5°. Today we have another sunny day in store with high temperatures in the mid-70s thanks to an area of high pressure over the state. […]
The main features this week will be sunny skies and dry weather. We will also see a markedly cooler pattern setting up as we move into the weekend. Our next chance of rain comes Thursday night into Friday. CPC 6 to 10-day Forecast August Climate Summary Summer Climate Summary Weather History 1894: Lansing hits 99 […]
Yesterday Slim bid farewell to meteorological summer and gave us a lot of great data on the fall season (great post Slim). The NWS will post the summer data today or tomorrow (maybe), I can post the rainfall data for Otsego for the summer months. We have gone 14 days with only .12 of an […]
Tomorrow we will put meteorological summer behind us and entered the meteorological fall season. The next few weeks there is still a chance of some warm days but after the 15th to the 20th there will be a noticeable decline in both daylight and temperatures. Here are some averages for Grand Rapids for meteorological fall. The current […]