Our dry pattern will continue through most of this week though we will have a few spotty chances of rain tomorrow night and Wednesday it the chances are very low. Our greater chance will come Friday when the second cold front comes into the area – not a drought buster but it may brings our…
Author: MichaelV (Otsego)
Dry Pattern Continues
Welcome to The Michigan Weather Center
Welcome to the first blog post from our new site. Take time to stroll through all the menu items on the top of the page – a lot of stuff to look at, most auto updates from multiple sources plus there is a glossary to help explain some of the archaic terms used by the…
Florida hurricane history
Florida hurricane history by SlimJim | posted in: SlimJim, Weather History | 7 With the recent batch of Hurricanes this year lets take a look at one state that over the last 100 years has seen the most tropical storms and hurricanes. More storms hit Florida than any other U.S. state. and since 1851 only…
Record Heat
Record Heat??? by SlimJim | posted in: SlimJim, Weather History | 10 First off Michael. Take care. Prayers for you & your family. It looks like the rest of this week will be on the very warm (hot for late September) side. We are looking at a chance of highs in the mid to upper…
Explanation of New Forecast Page
17 Sep 2017 Explanation of New Forecast Page by michaelv | posted in: Weather Forecast | 3 Forecast models will be moving to the new site I am not providing them on the blog anymore. The new forecast page is here. Still maintaining the tabbed format as before with more features including NAM models. Each…
The Flood of 1986
The Flood of 1986 by SlimJim | posted in: SlimJim, Weather History | 5 Vassar September, is generally a transition month between summer and fall, and brings a taming of the summer heat and thunderstorms. Normal rainfall amounts drop off from the summer maximum and the weather, more often than not, goes into more…
Montana First Snows – Allegan Country Fair
15 Sep 2017 Montana First Snows – Allegan Country Fair by michaelv | posted in: Weather Forecast | 4 Went on our annual pilgrimage to the Allegan County Fair yesterday. This is the 165th year of the fair – I have probably gone to 40 of them. I like to talk to the public and…
Irma – Jose – Katia
6 Sep 2017 Irma – Jose – Katia by michaelv | posted in: Weather Forecast | 11 We now have tropical storms Jose and Katia to throw into the mix of an active weather pattern in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Our main concern is Irma which is still forecast to move up towards…
Welcome to Meteorological Fall!
With the end of meteorological summer, it now time to turn our attention to September and the start of fall. Here in Grand Rapids the mean average temperature for September is 62.6° The hottest it has been here in Grand Rapids in September was 98° on September 16th 1899 and September 2nd 1913…
Can Summer be Over?
There will be updates on Harvey today and that will be the weather headline for this weekend. The picture is from last fall not this year. We are now coming to the end of August and the end of meteorological summer. While August still has a few days to go the mean so far…