There are currently tornado watches for central Florida this morning in the area of Raymond James Stadium where Super Bowl 55 will take place. The forecast is this will all clear out well before game time this evening. The high temp will be 76 falling to the 50s overnight. Further north in the fair state […]
43rd North Grand Rapids and Flint are two Michigan cities that are near the 43rd parallel north. I used the 43rd as I live at 43.05 north The elevation is 640. This week I will look at several cities around the world that are at the same distance from the equator and the north pole […]
Winter has returned with a vengeance with cold air rushing in from Canada we will see our coldest air of the season thus far. We added another three inches of snow to our winter total here in Otsego bringing us to 22.2 inches for the season. Unless we have the snowstorm of the century we […]
Here is our p.m. update – many areas have been upgraded to a winter storm warning (pink area): …WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST FRIDAY… * WHAT…Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 4 to 10 inches. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph. […]
We will be under the gun of snow beginning late today. There is a winter weather advisory in place for all of Michigan and a blizzard warning for the U.P… Snow will arrive late this afternoon, creating slick roads and low visibility. Conditions will worsen by Friday morning, as gusty winds, blowing/drifting snow, and quickly […]
First, here are the weather stats for January from the NWS: I suspect this will probably be the nicest day of the week before we turn towards a more active weather pattern when the snow and perhaps the coldest air we have seen in a couple of years move into SW Michigan. We could see […]
I often wonder about the observation of an event when a poor woodchuck is pulled from his den to see if he could see his shadow. If I were a woodchuck I believe I would bite the person who woke me up for such a ridiculous human event. Groundhogs are known as “true hibernators,” going […]
We have closed out another month of winter with not much snow or cold Arctic air for that matter. Now we start our last third of winter with hints of below-normal temps and above-normal precipitation in store if the CPC is correct though I hate to put all my chips on their predictions which change […]
We are now closing out January which has been our snowiest month of winter thus far. We are at 2.5 inches from the system which is now passing through (at 4 am). This brings us to 13.5 inches for January and 19.2 inches for the season (these are Otsego measurements), most of which fell from […]
February On Monday we will flip the calendar to February. During February at Grand Rapids Daily high temperatures increase by 7°F, from 31°F to 38°F, the average lows increase from 18 to 22. The record high is 69 set on February 11, 1999, in 2nd place is 67 in 1930 and 1976 and in 3rd place is 66 in 2017. The […]