Best Places There is a web site that claims to compare the best places to live, and the site has a city-to-city comparison. And one of the comparisons is the city’s climate. I will give you a few comparisons of other cities to Grand Rapids note that many of the “averages” on the site are […]
Late Summer It seems it was just yesterday when we were looking forward to longer days with warm sunshine. Well we are now about to turn the calendar to August. Stepping back and looking and how some others look at our weather the following is from an English travel site. “August is delectably warm in Michigan with mostly […]
History of heating part one Last week I looked at the history of cooling and this week I will take a look at the history of heating. While cooling has mostly been a newer invention the history of heating is much longer and will take up several post. In retrospect it looks like in history […]
The Idea of cooling. In the 1840s, long before electricity was invented, John Gorrie, a Florida doctor and inventor thought cooling might be the remedy for fighting disease and keeping people comfortable. He came up a system of interior cooling that involved transporting huge blocks of ice from frozen lakes and streams in the […]
The Most Intense Heat Waves Until this year the most intense heat wave in US history happened in 1936. This years heat wave in the NW US will go down as one of the most intense in US weather history. I have to say we are lucky that this did not move across the country. […]
July 4th I know that the NWS will have a post as to the records on July 4th (I will also toss some weather history for the local area) but what was the weather like on the day the declaration of independence was written. Thomas Jefferson recorded in his weather journal for July 4, […]
July I must wonder just were the time goes as July is just around the corner. This is how an English travel site describes Michigan weather for July. “July is usually the hottest month of the year in Michigan. The average high temperatures are in the hot 76°F (24.4°C) to 85°F (29.4°C) range, while nights are […]
The Longest Days June 19th 20th and 21st are the longest days of the year. Well not the longest days but the days with the longest amount of daylight. The sun is above the horizon for a total of 15 hours 21 minutes and 26 seconds at Grand Rapids. At Sault Ste Marie it […]
June Weather Lore Sayings Here are some fun weather lore sayings about June. If June is sunny, the harvest will come early. In June, when there is no dew, it indicates rain. A cold and wet June spoils the rest of the year. June, damp and warm, does a farmer no harm. A good […]
We are now into the sweet summertime. Summer is by far my favorite time of the year with long sunny days and warm (sometimes hot) temperatures. At Grand Rapids the new 30 year mean meteorological summer temperature is 70.1. Daily H/L start out at 75.3/54.1 on June 1st reaching a peak of 83.4/62.7 on […]