Author: Slim

This is part 2 of last weeks post. John von Neumann, the developer of that first computer (called the ENIAC), recognized that the problem of weather forecasting was a natural for his computing machinery. In 1948, he assembled a group of theoretical meteorologists at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. The group…

I found this to be interesting. this is from NOAA the web site it is no is not longer updated, Also a heads up I will be taking a trip starting on January 15th or 16th and will be gone until January 30th Between the 20th and 27th I will NOT have a internet connection…

With the start of the new year I thought it would be a good time to look back at years past and look at some top 5 years as to temperature, snow fall and precipitation. First here are the averages for 1. Annual mean temperature. 2. Snow fall and 3. Precipitation. 1. The mean annual…

    I was going to do a December extremes past part ll but I changed my mind and will do a past Christmas instead. This will be sort of a expanded version of Climatology for today. And will include both Christmas Eve and Christmas day. First for December 24th at Grand Rapids the average…

Over the next 2 weeks I will look at some past extreme months of December and than see how the rest of that winter played out. This week I will look at the two top coldest and warmest December on Record at Grand Rapids. First, we will look at the coldest Decembers in the past….

December 10th 1977 I remember December 10th 1977 very well. I had a close friend that lived at the Wenonah Hotel. While it was called a “hotel” it was more like an apartment building with shops and such on the ground floors and in the basement. (That part was called Underground Bay City at the…

  As we start the new season it is a good time to see just what a “average” winter is like in Grand Rapids. And a time to look at some extremes for the season. The records below are for the months of December, January and February so some records like total snow fall are…

This week I will take a look at some past weather events and see what could be ahead for the winter time.    The NWS from Chicago did some research and found that colder than normal Novembers during La ¯Nina’s tend to produce BN temps for the Winter season. They also said this leads towards…

  Growing up in Bay City and Alpena the start of the regular firearm deer season was always a big day. In Alpena, it was being careful while out in the yard and the hearing of gun shots all day long, In Bay City it was watching the traffic on first us 23 and us…

The mid November period has seen some very big storms in the Great Lakes region. Here is a list of some of the storms that have happened between November 9th to 1913 The White Hurricane One of deadliest weather event in Great Lakes history was the so-called “White Hurricane” of Nov. 9-11, 1913. Synoptically, this…