Have you ever wondered just how many days during the winter that Grand Rapids has a snow cover of at least 1 inch? Here in Grand Rapids the mean average seasonal (October to April) will have 70 days with 1” or more, 57 with 2” or more, 47 with 3” or more. 38 with 4” […]
A new record snowfall at Grand Rapids was set yesterday with 9.2” officially reported at GRR. Here in MBY I recorded a total of 6” and now have 5” on the ground. The official H/L yesterday at GR was 28/24 there was that record 9.2” of snowfall. The highest wind gust was 30 MPH out […]
Just for the fun of it I am doing a winter guess based on past winters that went from a El Nino winter to a weak La Nina winter. Since 1950 the winters that have gone from El Nino to a weak La Nina are 1954/55, 1965/66, 1974/75, 1984/85 and 2005/06. This year the fall […]
We are now at the half way point of November and yesterday was also the start of firearm deer season in Michigan. Here is some weather history for the start of deer season at several locations in Michigan. Growing up in Bay City and Alpena, the start of the firearm deer season was always a […]
The of Gales of November It has been a while since there has been a huge wind storm on the Great Lakes That said the Great Lake Region had two big storms on the same date, one in 1975 and the other in 1998. First the 1975 storm, the one that brought down the Edmund […]
November is the last of the “Fall” months and it can at times be close to a winter month. The average H/L starts out at 53.6/37.8 and falls to 41.0/28.6 by the 30th. The warmest mean for November is 47.6 in 1931 and the coldest mean is 31.0 in 1951. The record high for the […]
First off, I will be posting this late on Friday instead of Saturday morning as I will be taking my son and daughter-in-law to the airport. Todays post will not include the latest weather forecast but I will put in what is the forecast before midnight. I will look at the weather history for Halloween. […]
We still have a while to go, and we do not know how this winter will play out. Last winter Grand Rapids had its 2nd warmest December on record with a mean of 38.3 January had a mean of 27.1 and February had a mean of 35.4 good for the warmest February on record. The […]
Back on this day October 12, 2006, the earliest snowfall of 1” or better when 2.0” fell at Grand Rapids. There was also over 1” of snow at Flint with 2.3” and Lansing 1.5” the next earliest snowfall of 1” or better was on October 19,1989. Here is a complete list of years when […]
Weather records have been kept by the NWS office at Grand Rapids since 1892 but between 1892 and 1898 there is data that is missing. But starting in 1898 there is good data. This week I will look at the annual mean average temperature for each decade from 1900 to 2019. I also looked at […]