We begin the work week adding some rain and storms into the mix of heat and humidity. Our best chance of storms will come later today through Thursday. [columns] [span4] [/span4][span4] [/span4][span4] [/span4][/columns] There is a marginal risk of severe weather this afternoon. The main threats will be damaging winds and locally heavy rains. There […]
Humisery (or humidex as it is known in Canada) is the opposite end of the spectrum as windchill. Aptly named this is a discomfort index derived from the combination of heat and humidity. Some are more tolerant of these conditions than others. It has been my philosophy that one can only take so many clothes […]
I have made it through another year (yea!). I have always wondered about birthdays celebrations until I reached retirement and beyond and have realized each year is a blessing. This is the point where one jokes about being old as dirt and being around when dinosaurs roamed the earth. When I hear the grandkids complain […]
Here is some weather trivia for you which may seem unbelievable until one does the math. Do you think clouds have any weight? How can they, if they are floating in the air like a balloon filled with helium? If you tie a helium balloon to a kitchen scale it won’t register any weight, so […]
We have been enjoying fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and green peppers from our garden this week. The cucumbers have been prolific we are at the point we have so many we can’t give them away. There is nothing better than fresh veggies straight off the vine. The tomatoes plants are huge this year, I have […]
We have had a very pleasant stretch of weather the past few days. As we continue on through the week we will see our temps increase each day into the low to mid-80s with increasing dewpoints by this weekend. Today skies will be partly cloudy with more in the way of clouds expected inland, as […]
For me yesterday was the perfect day to be outside to enjoy the weather. Our high in Otsego was 74° and the low was 59°. Currently, we have 52° at 6 am. We lose 2 minutes and 11 seconds of daylight today compared to yesterday but we still have 14 hours and 25 minutes of […]
We now begin the last month of met summer with a more rapid loss of daylight as we progress through August. We had 3.79 inches of rain in July and 12.79 inches for the summer thus far (in Otsego). Sunrise is 6:35 today and sunset is 9:02 pm. We have a loss of two minutes […]
We are about to close out the month of July, two-thirds of the summer has gone by and daylight begins to make a rapid retreat. Our weather pattern this month has been fairly active in regards to more severe weather and tornadoes than the past few years, at least in certain areas of the state. […]
We had a storm cell move through early this morning prompting warnings from the NWS. Lots of lightning, thunder, wind and rain. A Thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 9 am. We had .80 of an inch of rain from the storm with an 18 mph wind gust which is pretty good seeing how we […]