I guess I am going to have to come up with better forecasts than what the NWS puts out in the morning, they were off by several degrees yesterday, we had a high temp of 46° with mostly sunny skies rather than the upper 30s predicted. I am thinking their computer spits out info as […]
We have a relatively warm 37° in Otsego at 6:30 this morning which is above normal for nighttime lows. I am almost to the point where I am tiring of having to dress up in a cacoon of multiple layers just to go outside. On the other hand, one can dress for colder temps but […]
We currently have a temp of 33° this morning at 7 am down from 35° at 3:30, which may be our high for today. Any snow we had from last night’s system has melted off. We are approaching the time of year when we transition to spring and perhaps a more turbulent weather pattern where […]
We have a cold 5.7° at 6:30 this morning with clear skies in Otsego. We had four inches of snowfall yesterday morning which brings us to 19.8 inches for the month and 39 inches for the season with more coming for tonight before we enter a period of warming temps beginning today lasting through the […]
Warm February Days From time to time there has been talk of the trend for “short” winters lately. In looking at past history there have been very few winters where it has been cold from the start to the end. That can be said for most summers as well as few have been “hot” from […]
In an extraordinary engineering feat, the 2,260-pound Perseverance rover touched down gently in a dried-out crater lake on Mars yesterday. I have been following the space program since Gemini (a long, long time ago) and am amazed at the engineering feats NASA and JPL have come up with over the decades. Landing a rover on […]
We are 20° warmer than this time yesterday morning, we currently have 13° in Otsego. We are now up to 35 inches of snow for the season and just five inches short of last year’s total snowfall. The big story this season is the bitter cold which we have seen the likes of in five […]
Wow! It is colder than cold outside this morning with temps in the negative digits. We dropped to zero at 9:15 last night and temps have been falling since. We are currently at -11.6° at 6:45 am in Otsego, -13.7° in Plainwell, -15.5° in Kalamazoo, and -11° just north of Grand Rapids. We haven’t seen […]
I took a few preliminary snow measurements this morning on my deck and it appears we can add another 4.5 inches to our totals for the season which brings us to 34.5 inches. Temp is a balmy 7.7° at 6:30 am. There is still some light snow around the area which should be moving out […]
We have 8° at 6 am this morning with more snow on the way. My furnace went out overnight, of course, the coldest air of the season is here while it decided to go on sabbatical. Luckily we have alternative sources of heat to get us by until we get a repair person here. […]