1964 Alaska earthquake Sunday marks the 58 anniversary of the strongest earthquake to hit North America. The quake was centered about 74 miles southeast of Anchorage. Just about all of Alaska felt the 9.2 earthquake. It was reported that the Space Needle in Seattle some 1200 miles away wobbled. At 5:36 p.m. on […]
astronomical spring Astronomical spring starts on Sunday at 11:33 AM that is when the sun is over the equator and thus the spring equinox. Now one would think that is the start of the spring season and in many locations that is true but here where we live just south of the halfway point between […]
Ides of March First off Sandy late yesterday asked when the 2022 Sky warn training was going to be and if it was online. Here is the information for west Michigan https://www.weather.gov/grr/spottertraining and here are some links for SE Michigan for the https://www.weather.gov/dtx/spotter2 When I was growing up weather forecast and up to the minute […]
In 1976 I still worked and lived in the Bay City area. I was at work on the night of the start of the biggest ice storm to hit much of Michigan. The great ice storm struck Lower Michigan on March 2nd and 3rd 1976. The ice storm is still the worst widespread ice storm […]
Next Tuesday we flip the calendar to not only March but to the start of meteorological spring. While we can swing between some mild days and some cold one’s daylight is getting longer and here in Grand Rapids we gain 1hr and 31m of daylight in the next 31 days of (March). With start […]
Last week I looked at the great cold spell of February 1899. This week I will look at the warmest days of February in what I will call the 60° club. The temperature at Grand Rapids has gotten to 60 or better in 14 February’s. The record warmest day in February is 69 on February […]
The Great Arctic outbreak! 123 years ago, a cold wave that would become known as the “Great Arctic Outbreak” took the United States by storm. People across the nation braced for the worst as temperatures plummeted throughout the first two weeks of February 1899. The western third of the country was the first to feel […]
All time state records I took a look at the all-time state records, and I was kind of surprised to see some odd results. Well at least here in Michigan. It has been reported for as long as I can remember that Mio held the all time Michigan hottest record of 112 on July […]
February Next week we will flip the calendar over to February. Last week I looked at the two biggest blizzards I have seen. And next week is the anniversary of the last big true blizzard to hit this area. On February 1st and 2nd in 2011 a big storm system hit the southern great […]
The twin Blizzards Next week in the anniversary of two of Michigan’s greatest “true” blizzards. What is odd is that both started on the same date January 26th one in 1967 and the other in 1978. I live in Bay City for both storms and in Bay City the 1967 storm was the worst of […]