Late February-Ice Storm Next Week? As we head into the last full week of February it is a good time to see what has happened in the last week in February in the past. 2016 that February saw very little snow the first 18 days and on the 19th the temperature shot up to 61 […]
An Odd Winter Boy, this has been one very odd winter season. While Grand Rapids has recorded 81.5” of snow fall most of that fell in 3 events. The first one was November 15 to the 20th the 2nd event was December 15th to the 18th with a 3 day break and then the 22nd […]
Back in the 90’s, the 1890’s that is. This winter season will go down as one of the warmest in much of the lower Great Lakes area. Way back in the winter of 1889/90 there was another mild winter. 1889/90 was before records were kept at Grand Rapids but they were kept at Lansing. 1890: […]
In just 4 more days we will flip the calendar over to February. In doing my research on February I came across the coldest of cold waves. February 1875 must have been the coldest month on record here in Michigan. There were only two locations that have records that go back to 1875 Lansing and […]
Good morning. The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 36/31 there was a reported 0.01” of precipitation and 0.1” of snow fall. At 7 AM there was a trace of snow on the ground but that melted rapidly. For today the average H/L is 30/18 The record high of 61 was in 1906 and […]
A cold Rain This January has been very warm and it looks like the last week will determine just how it will rank in the warmest and least snowy on record. So far this month has a mean of 34.6 at Grand Rapids and just 0.6” of snow fall. The record warmest in history is […]
We all wish Michael the very best today and know that he will be back doing his blog is a few days. Next week’s weather history. January 21 1984: The temperature hits a record low of 15 below zero at Grand Rapids for the second consecutive day. The temperature at Lansing only manages to reach […]
Good morning. Even though yesterday with a low of 24 was one of the coolest days so far this month it was still warmer than average. The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 35/24 that 24 was just before midnight. There was a trace of snow fall, no sunshine and no snow on the […]
As has been noted for about the last two years Grand Rapids has seemed to be cooler compared to average in our area so, I went back to see just when that started. What I found is that yes Grand Rapids has been cooler compared to the averages at several other locations in west Michigan […]
News year’s eve. 2022 is now almost in the record books. The year went by very fast. What will 2022 be remembered in the weather news? I would say for Michigan the top two weather events for 2022 would be the May tornado in Gaylord and the December blizzard here in west Michigan. I will […]