Thanksgiving extremes Since 1941 the official date for Thanksgiving in the US is the 4th Thursday of November so the day can be between November 22nd The next time It will be on the 22nd will be in 2029 and the latest date is November 28th the next time that will happen is in 2024. […]
November 1913 Much attention has been paid to the sinking of Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10th, 1975. The loss of the largest ship in the Laker fleet and 29 lives was a horrific event. However, the most savage storm in the history of the Great Lakes swept the inland waters on November 7-12, 1913. The […]
Back to “Winter Time” On Sunday at at 2 AM or there about the time fall back to 1 AM. Officially we are going back to “standard” time, but I think since we are on “summer time” (officially daylight savings time) the names should be changed to the new standard time “summer time” and “winter […]
Trick or Treat November is just around the corner, and we will have to see if this year November will be a trick or a treat. The updated 30 year average the high/low starts out at 53.6/37.2 on the 1st and falls to 41.0/28.6 by the 30th the record high and the record low […]
Fire in the Sky There are no official weather records for the summer of 1871 for the state of Michigan in fact most locations do not have a official weather record for any dates before the 1880’s at best and while Lansing has records back to 1863 the records for 1871 and 1872 are missing. […]
October vs Winter While it is still too early to tell how the rest of October 2021 will play out one thing for sure the first half was very warm. So, will a warm October and the warmer waters of the great lakes lead to a snowy winter season this winter? Well, I took a […]
Fall Color While there is some spotty good color on the drive between Grand Rapids and the Bay City area the “official” reports are that the color is still a week or two away yet. I am sure that some of the color may even be later than that. But that said the trees that […]
Welcome to October I am up in the Bay City area. My mother in laws funeral is going to be on Monday. It has been a very stressful few weeks for my wife as she has been up here for the better part of a month helping her mother be for her mother was taken […]
Warm Septembers In looking at past weather records I came across something kind of interesting. Going back to 1950 the top 10 warmest Septembers have occurred in the last 20 years. And 8 have happened in the last 10 years. On the cold side only two of the coldest September’s have happened in the […]
Floods of 1986 While it has been somewhat dry this year this week post is about a September that was very wet and caused some of the worst flooding in central Michigan’s history. This month marks the 35th anniversary of the Great Flood of 1986, an incredible weather event that was described as “Michigan’s greatest […]