Not sure about my title this morning but stay with me I will come to terms with it. I think I have created a new idiom. We have all heard of the saying ‘short end of the stick’ which means a situation, opportunity, or outcome which is less favorable than situations, opportunities, or outcomes experienced […]
For those of you who have to drag yourselves out of bed this morning to go to work starting a new work week my hats off to you keeping commerce running and our economy humming. For those of you who have retired like myself thanks to all those years you put in teaching the new […]
We currently have 78° here at the Weather Center at 6 am. I would have to say this is the warmest overnight low we have had in quite some time. Our master historian Slim could probably verify this. Radar currently shows a large area of rain and storms across northern lower Michigan with ten thunderstorm […]
I believe we have more than made up for our cooler wet spring with the heat we have seen this summer thus far. We haven’t had much in the way of severe weather and the main headline has been the sunny days and the 90° days we have had thus far. The CPC continues guessing […]
The rain has ended in the Otsego/Plainwell area. We had .34 of an inch overnight bringing our total for the month to 1.48 inches. Last year at this time we had .96 of an inch through the 16th of July. NOAA has issued a La Niña Watch, which means conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean […]
Thanks to Barry for providing the graphic for the comet Neowise in yesterday’s post. It will be visible through July 23rd before you need binoculars or a telescope. After that, it won’t be visible again for 6800 years. I hope you enjoy our weather lady Abby in the Weather Center graphic. If she can wear […]
Looking at the data from the National Hurricane Center I see nothing of note in the Atlantic, Central, or Eastern Pacific with the exception of a small tropical depression off the western coast of Mexico. Pretty boring stuff for those working at the NHC. [columns] [span4] [/span4][span4] [/span4][span4] [/span4][/columns] This is the SPC outlook […]
We are now losing a minute and 30 seconds of daylight as we approach mid-month. As we get into early August we lose 2 minutes per day then it is all downhill from there. Solar noon is now 1:48 pm. Solar noon is the moment when the Sun passes a location’s meridian and reaches its […]
After temps in the mid-80s to near 90, today will be refreshing. There are a few showers and storm cells coming off the lake this morning between Holland and Michigan City traveling to the Southeast. At this point, it appears this is where the area of rain will be confined during the morning before moving […]
This is the first day since June 27 we have had rain in the Otsego/Plainwell area. We have had .77 of an inch as of 7 am. I use the ‘official’ CoCoRaHS gauge (to the left) for my measurements. I also have a digital gauge. The digital gauge is generally a tenth of an inch […]