Author: MichaelV (Otsego)

1953: It is a cold morning across Lower Michigan. Record low temperatures include the 20 degrees at Muskegon and the 21 degrees at Grand Rapids. On April 14, 2018, a mid-season Spring storm spanning April 13th-15th reached its peak. After widespread rain the night of April 13th ended as freezing rain and accumulating sleet the…

Weather History 1941: Temperatures reach the 80s across Lower Michigan. Record highs set on this date include 87 degrees at Detroit, 82 at Lansing, and 80 at Grand Rapids. 1950: High temperatures struggle to reach the mid and upper 20s across Lower Michigan after morning lows in the teens. At Lansing, the high temperature is…

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NOTE: This would be a good time to subscribe to my Substack site as I have been having a lot of foreign actors phishing and trying to hack into this site.  It has been time-consuming and expensive to keep this site going so I am eventually going to be using Substack exclusively.  Don’t forget to…

1969: A brief tornado damaged a house near Loomis in Isabella County. 1973: A snowstorm dumps 3 to 8 inches of snow across much of Lower Michigan. Record snowfall for the date includes 6.5 inches at Muskegon, 5.2 inches at Lansing, and 4.4 inches at Grand Rapids. 2008: A tornado hit from near Plainwell in…

1938: A snowstorm drops several inches of snow across southern Lower Michigan. Lansing sets a record for the day with 5.1 inches and Grand Rapids with 4.3 inches. 1947: Three to five inches of rain and warmer temperatures combine with melting snowpack and partially frozen ground to cause some disastrous flooding along the Grand and…

1954: A tornado destroyed two barns and damaged a house and apartment building near Fulton in Kalamazoo County. 1982: Temperatures plunged to nearly zero as Arctic high pressure persisted over the Great Lakes states. Lansing falls to 2 below zero for a record low for the date and the latest sub-zero temperature on record. Muskegon…

A good site to find tornado information is the Lansing State Journal which goes back to 1951 in its tornado archive.  We have had 1237 tornados since 1951.  The most active years were 2001 and 1976 with 42 tornados.  Another site of course is Wikipedia which covers pre-1950 to present. High pressure will bring fair,…

We should see another dry day today, with increasing clouds and rain chances this evening and overnight. Today’s highs will be in the mid-40s to mid-50s, with lows tonight in the mid-30s to low 40s.  Yesterday our high was 62° and the low was 37°. Weather History 2003: A devastating ice storm strikes central Lower…

April showers bring May flowers, and we got a good start to the month with yesterday’s heavy rain, which was 2.48 inches (official) for Otsego—almost a whole month of rain in one day. We now have 6.49 inches for spring.  The other CoCoRaHS stations around the area haven’t reported their totals yet as of 6…