Tomorrow we will put meteorological summer behind us and entered the meteorological fall season. The next few weeks there is still a chance of some warm days but after the 15th to the 20th there will be a noticeable decline in both daylight and temperatures. Here are some averages for Grand Rapids for meteorological fall. The current…
I know it will not be too much longer before someone points out that some trees are “already changing color” That report seems to happen every year. Well with many schools already having started their fall classes I thought it would be a good time to see when the first 32° day is along with…
Good morning. For better or worse I am going to the Tiger game today. I am going with a work friend and for my first time it is on a bus. I have never gone on a tour bus to a game before. And of course the weather is not going to be the best….
Best Places There is a web site that claims to compare the best places to live, and the site has a city-to-city comparison. And one of the comparisons is the city’s climate. I will give you a few comparisons of other cities to Grand Rapids note that many of the “averages” on the site are…
We have now turned the page to August 2024. So far this meteorological summer at Grand Rapids has seen a mean of 71.0° that is a departure from average of +0.2° so this summer has been near average so far. There has been 10.61” of rainfall that is a departure from average of +2.57” The…
Early Fall Guess (outlook) The ocean temperature forecast for Autumn from NMME shows that a La Niña anomaly is present. It is not as strong as some from past years, but it is strong enough to impact both the ocean and the atmosphere. Knowing that we should have an active La Niña event again, what…
Earlier this week there were two events that could be classified as a derecho. Both were just west and south of the Grand Rapids area. We did get a a good Thunderstorm and a lot of rain from the 1st one and less lightning are less rain from the 2nd one. Here is some…
It has been extremely hot in the desert SW with Las Vagas, Needles Death Valley and Phoenix all have had many days of highs above 100 with temperatures reaching 129 at Death Valley. 123 at Needels, 120 at Las Vagas and 118 at Phoenix. There have been new record highs set all of the above…
Wow, time is sure flying by it just seems like yesterday it was the 1st day of the new year and now it is late June and Monday with be the 1st of July. At Grand Rapids July in most years is the warmest month of the year. That was not the case in 2009 when…
Today is our anniversary we have been married for 51 years. I always like to have a record of the weather on days that are easy to remember like anniversaries, birthdays ect. So while this will be useless information to many of you it in a way means a lot to me LOL. When we…