I don’t know how many times I have to explain the variability of weather currents in the great ocean of our atmosphere when it comes to trying to predict the weather for any particular day. We can try to predict what may or may not happen a week from today but ultimately one small change […]
If you haven’t done so yet set those clocks ahead one hour no matter how much it peeves or excites you it is a reality as we move forth from the past to the present into the future our manipulation of time has caused us an hour loss of sleep. I could get into the […]
It seems like it was just yesterday that we set the clocks back to winter time and now it is time to reset them (the clocks) to summer time. There was a time when Michigan was on EST time for the whole year and in the mid or late 1960’s we started going on EDT […]
Though not impossible it is beginning to look like accumulating snow of any consequence is becoming less and less as we travel further into spring. Our last snows were on the 23rd and 27th of February with an inch and a half between the two. We received around a tenth of an inch of rain […]
Our high for today was 62° at midnight and has fallen to 58 at 6 am which feels like a warm summer early morning. We didn’t quite make it to 70° yesterday here in Otsego, my digital reading was 68° for yesterday’s high. With the exception of the lakeshore area temps are consistent in the […]
We reached 67° here in Otsego yesterday and are now at 47° at 7:00 this morning. Mostly cloudy skies are expected today and a few showers are possible northwest of Grand Rapids. Breezy conditions will continue with south winds gusting to 35 mph. Some gusts near 45 mph will develop along the lakeshore this afternoon. […]
Now that the snow is gone with the exception of a few piles here and there I have started my early spring yard work mainly getting all the leftover leaves out and dethatching the lawn. The seed catalogs have been arriving to start compiling my wish list of what I want to plant this year. […]
This week will certainly bring out a bout of spring fever with a need to get out and enjoy the great outdoors. I am sure this will lull us into a sense of false security thinking the cold temps have disappeared and winter has left us. As Slim said yesterday “beware of the Ides of […]
I can’t remember when we have had so much sun this early in the late winter/early spring – high pressure has pretty much blocked any moisture from coming into the state over the past week. We have essentially lost all of our snow cover with the exception of a few piles here and there. We […]
Thunderstorms. While it is only March it is not too early to think about thunderstorms. It seems to me that the number and intensity of storms has been down the last few years. Any way here is some information on thunderstorms. My sister lived in Fort Myers Florida for about 15 years before she passed […]