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 […]
Just Around the Corner June and summer are just around the corner first off in a travel site from England here is their summery of June here in Michigan. “June begins the beautiful summer season in Michigan with bright sunshine amid blue skies at the helm. The long days see around 15 hours of sunlight and the […]
May Heat Waves May in most years is a pleasant late spring month with mild days and cool nights. But from time to time there can be a very warm period and in some respects a mini “Heat Wave” The World Meteorological Organization is specific in its definition by stating that a heat wave […]
In years past I have posted this as a three day or more period in mid May that there was a chance of a frost or two but this year it has been cool for many of the first two weeks of this May. But anyway here is some information on the Three […]
On May 9th 1923 one of the strangest snow storms to ever hit Michigan happened. Here is the write up from the NWS office out of Detroit on the storm. Not since records have been kept in Southeast Lower Michigan (Detroit as far back as 1870), has the snowstorm of May 9th in 1923 […]
Merry month of May Welcome to the merry month of May. According to a English travel site this is the weather that can be expected in the month of May here in Michigan. “May brings bright sunshine to Michigan as the cold and windy conditions abate significantly. The average daily temperatures are in the pleasant 58°F (14.4°C) to […]
New Normal While some people like to call them “normal” I would rather call them “average” what I am talking about are the average temperatures, precipitation, snow fall amounts ect. NOAA will soon release a much-anticipated update of U.S. climate data for placing recent weather conditions—such as heat waves and flooding rain—into historical context. Climatologists from […]
I know we all have our own opinions as to the weather in different parts of the world such as it is hot and humid in Florida in the summer (it is) that it is cold in Alaska (for the most part it is) that it rans all the time in the Northwest […]