43rd North Grand Rapids and Flint are two Michigan cities that are near the 43rd parallel north. I used the 43rd as I live at 43.05 north The elevation is 640. This week I will look at several cities around the world that are at the same distance from the equator and the north pole […]
February On Monday we will flip the calendar to February. During February at Grand Rapids Daily high temperatures increase by 7°F, from 31°F to 38°F, the average lows increase from 18 to 22. The record high is 69 set on February 11, 1999, in 2nd place is 67 in 1930 and 1976 and in 3rd place is 66 in 2017. The […]
Record low snow winter. Of course, we will not know for sure how much snow this winter will have (as of today it is 9.4”) But at this time the winter of 2020/21 is running very similar to the winter of 1905/06. For November, December and up to Friday AM I will give you a […]
50 years ago. This week I will look back 50 years ago at 1971. In September of 1970 I just started a new job that I would have for the next 36 years. While I did not live in Grand Rapids at the time (I lived in Bay City then) I will look at the […]
La Nina 2020/21 At the current time we are in a strong moderate La Nina. What that means is we are about half way between a moderate La Nina and a strong La Nina. Since 1950 there have been 4 moderate La Nina winters and 7 strong La Nina winter seasons. The moderate La Nina […]
Happy perihelion and new year. Good riddance to 2020 a year that everyone will remember but would rather forget. For December the mean at Grand Rapids was 32.4 that is a departure of +3.2° The high for the month was 53 on the 10th and the low was 18 on the 15,25 and 31st That […]
Boxing day I hope everyone had a great Christmas. When Christmas day passes, the celebration continues—at least in some countries. In the UK, as well as a number of other countries that used to be part of the British Empire—such as Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada—Boxing Day is a bank public holiday that […]
Winter Solstice This year the winter solstice is on Monday the 21st at 5:02 AM. At that time Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun. The solstice happens at the same instant for all of us, everywhere on Earth. It’s when the sun on our sky’s dome reaches its farthest southward point […]
20 years ago. Last week I looked at the start of the winter season 100 years ago. This week I will look at the winter 20 years ago. November 2000 November 2000 started out on the mild side with the first 10 days mostly above average with the high for the month on the first […]
December 1920 Just for the fun of it I thought I would look at the winter season of 1920/21. That winter sort of like this one so far was mild. . Now some would expect that 100 years ago winters would always be colder and snowier than now. Well in 1920 there was no snow […]