Author: Slim

  Welcome to November Before we look at some November averages and history first here is a wrap on October 2018. This past October was a wet one here in Grand Rapids with 5.69” of rain falling (there was a trace of snow on both the 19th and 20th) The mean temperature was50.4° that was…

1962 Columbus Day Storm in the NW. CPC’s Mild Dry Winter Guess and Halloween Weather, The picture was taken yesterday, shows just how late the color and leaf fall is this year. 1962 WIND STORM IN THE NW In the Pacific Northwest the benchmark storm is the Columbus day storm of 1962. This storm was…

With the moderate/hard freeze here on Wednesday morning when the low reached 27° at GRR and 26 here at my house. That brought the end to the growing season for 2018. From the time of the last freeze in the spring on April 30th to that first freeze on October 18th all the months were…

Hurricane Michael was not only the strongest storm to hit the Florida Panhandle it was the strongest storm to hit Florida in October and one of the strongest at land fall in US history. As we wait the finial death toll and the money cost that will run into the hundreds of millions if not…

I know there has been a lot of talk as to how a El Nino vs a La Nina affects the winter temperatures and snow fall totals. Well I took a quick look to see how past El Nino and La Nina’s had on the seasonal snow fall totals at Grand Rapids, MI. What I…

We will soon end September and enter the start of October. The average mean temperature for October is 51.0°.  In the average October Grand Rapids receives 3.26” of rain and the mean snow fall is 0.5” The average High on the 1st is 66° and that falls to 55° by the 31st the average low…

Do you know that in the past that parts of Michigan have had accumulating snow in September. The snowiest September in Michigan was at Ironwood in 1995 when 6.9” of snow fell. Houghton is in 2nd place when in 1942 6.5” fell and at Marquette they reported 60” in 1899. In Munising there reported 4.2”…

While Hurricane (now tropical storm) Florence continues to hang out in the Carolina’s I took a look at some past big storms that have hit that area.  While Florence was maybe not as intense as early forecast had it I am sure that there will be a lot of rain and much possible flooding. The…

Recently much of cental Michigan has gotten a good amount of rain. This week I am going to take a look at September 1986 a month when Grand Rapids recorded 11.85” of rain 6.37” of that rain fell in just 3 days (September 9-11) Muskegon 13.55” (with 8.93” falling in the 9-11) BUT that was…

With the end of meteorological summer, it now time to turn our attention to September and the start of fall. Here in Grand Rapids the mean average temperature for September is 62.6° The hottest it has been here in Grand Rapids in September was 98° on September 16th 1899 and September 2nd 1913 it also…