The feature image is a screen capture from the Mackinac Bridge webcam taken after 09:00 yesterday. Nice big snowflakes concealing the other side of the bridge. I have added the Houghton web cam in the side bar. Arctic sea ice extent for October 2017 averaged 6.71 million square kilometers (2.60 million square miles), the fifth…
Weather story for today is the snow – mainly north of Big Rapids and the U.P. The southern lower areas will see rain changing to or mixing with snow. Snowfall totals south of Big Rapids will be an inch or less with the exception of the western coastal counties may see an inch or so…
This is a little tongue and cheek humor on the question of normalcy, puns are intended, no offense is intended… We have all heard the terminology of the ‘new normal’ and I wonder as we go through the decades what normal means anymore. I have been around for (cough) over six decades and have seen…
Don’t think we will see anything like these photos in lower Michigan – the only thing I remember coming close was the winter of 1972 in northern Maine and central/southern Ontario Canada when I saw the house size snow blowers clearing Route 201 through the northern highlands of Maine all the way up to Quebec…
The days are getting pretty short, sunrise is 7:23 sunset is 5:29. I am generally up in the morning around 6:30 (up with the chickens as my grandparents would say), now I will be getting home from work (my real job in the pharmaceutical industry) when the sun is setting. Luckily my office has…
Our main concern focuses on today with the chance of storms. There is a marginal risk of severe weather across southern Lower Michigan this afternoon. The main threat will be high winds and heavy rain. Low pressure will track south of Lower Michigan today with the chance for strong thunderstorms across far southern Lower Michigan…
Southwest Michigan Forecast High pressure will bring fair weather today but light rain and snow will move in tonight with a period of stormy weather this weekend as low pressure brings a cold front through by Sunday night. Most of the models are trending to keep the severe weather in extreme southern Michigan confined to…
October 29 1925: October feels more like December as snow and cold prevail for much of the last half of the month. Measurable snow falls for three consecutive days with high temperatures at or near freezing from October 28th to the 30th. October 30 1988: Record cold temperatures in the teens and lower 20s close…
The feature image is the snow at the BIG Mac yesterday. As the title says – this is preliminary as in goes before a fuller, more detailed report. As usual the disclaimer would be as with all forward looking statements, this is just a guess and anything which actually happens in reverse of these statements…
One thing that is well known especially along the Lake Michigan coastal counties is lake effect snow. When trying to put together a winter forecast for Michigan figuring in lake effect snow amounts is almost impossible for the season. Wind direction and wind speed can create a lot of variability when cold air moves across…