Yesterday we had a high temperature of 75° and the low of 63°. There was a quick peak of the sun in the afternoon, if you blinked you missed it. We also had a trace of rainfall in the morning. Today will feature another mostly cloudy day with temperatures in the mid-70s with a 20% […]
Yesterday we had a high of 79° before the clouds moved in from the southeast. Our weather will be affected by TS Helene pushing clouds and moisture into southern Michigan. The pressure gradient between Helene and high pressure to our north will cause windy conditions today up the 40 mph range overnight. Rain chances increase […]
Sunrise today is at 7:34 am and sunset is at 7:34 pm in West Michigan; we begin our long period of increasing darkness and less daylight. We will also have increasingly cloudy days as is expected for western Michigan during the late fall and winter’s gloom sets in. We will see sunny skies today with […]
We caught up on some much-needed rain yesterday here at the station. The morning brought around a quarter inch then another inch fell between 7 pm and 9 pm. We ended up with 1.26 inches for the day giving us 1.82 inches for the month. There will be an isolated shower or two early this […]
Yesterday was a typical fall day though there was little sunshine temperatures went to a high of 68° after a morning low of 55°. Today will feature rain with a possible thundershower (no severe weather expected). Rainfall amounts will be a quarter to half an inch. Highs will be in the mid to upper 60s. […]
Yesterday was mostly cloudy with some showers falling all morning into the afternoon. We had .32 of an inch of rain, bringing us to .56 for the month. We spent most of the day in the mid-60s. Drier air will move into the region today with highs in the lower to mid-70s. We’ll have another […]
We will add to our meager rainfall today. Most areas have seen only a quarter inch or less for the month. We will also begin to lose the heat, the temperatures for the week should drop into the 70s for highs. Our high for yesterday was 90° down here in the valley, the low dropping […]
Here is something we haven’t had in the forecast in a while, rain! Our last measurable rain was on September 6 with .11 here in Otsego. It is time to blow the dust and bugs out of the rain gauge. Southwest Michigan has a marginal risk of severe weather. Our high yesterday was 90° and […]
Rain has been a scarce commodity over the past few weeks. Our last decent rain was on August 17 with 1.59 inches falling. Since then we have had .28 of an inch in Otsego. We have had 12 straight days of dry sunny weather. We had some fog yesterday which didn’t clear out until after […]
Weather Phobias Heliophobia (fear of the sun) is the opposite of Nyctophobia (fear of the night) and has nothing to do with Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia unless you fear long words. Nyctophobia can go hand in hand with Selenophobia (Fear of the Moon). The fear of clouds is called nephophobia. People with astraphobia feel extreme anxiety or debilitating […]