This week I will take a look at some annual Michigan averages and then look as some extremes over the years. I think we have seen less thunderstorms in the last few years just by looking at the number of “Thunderstorm days” for GR I don’t think one gets an accurate idea as the NWS […]
We will soon end September and enter the start of October. The average mean temperature for October is 51.1° The warmest it had gotten in October is 89° on October 1st 1897. In more recent times the 2nd place high of 88 was reached on October 8th 2007 at the end of 5 days in […]
This year the September equinox will arrive on Monday September 23, 2019 at 3:50 AM. For us in the Northern Hemisphere, it marks the calendar start of autumn (I use September 1st as the start of the fall season). At the equinox, days and nights just about equal in length. For us in the Northern […]
As we all should know all long-range seasonal outlooks are nothing more then a guess. While some are more educated than others, they are all none the less nothing more then a guess. One long range guess that has been around for a long time is the one that comes in “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” […]
With the Hurricane season now underway it is a good time to look at the Hurricane category’s History The scale was developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Robert Simpson, who at the time was director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center. The scale was introduced to the general public in […]
The kids are back in school and Labor day is this weekend so with a tear in my eye it is time to say good bye to meteorological summer. It is too early to have a summery of this summer that will come out in the next week or so. That makes this a good […]
First off the latest ENSO update indicates that we are looking a warm neutral tow a weak El Nino for the coming fall and winter months. Here is a write up on this subject from Steve Dimatino “ENSO neutral conditions are in place via the sea surface temperature anomalies with well above normal SSTA in […]
This is one hurricane that I have a little personal knowledge of. Back in 2002 my sister moved to Fort Myers Florida. And In 2004 she had a house in Cape Coral. Her house was about 3 miles from the Gulf of Mexico and not far from a canal in fact there are many canals […]
I write many posts on past weather history and I will add some weather history into todays post as well. When MV wrote on some of his personal history in his youth it gave me the idea to add some of mine. I am several years older than MV as I was born in November […]
When we think of a weather-related cruise ships sinking, we think of The Titanic. Well long after the Titanic sinking came the disaster of the Andria Doria. One was due to ice and the other due to fog. Making its maiden voyage across the Atlantic in 1953, the Andrea Doria did indeed have all the […]