Well, here we are at the beginning of the end of 2020, the final week of a strange and fearful year. I have been around since the 1950s and this has been by far the worse year for the human race I have seen. This year has been a grim reminder that we only have […]
Boxing day I hope everyone had a great Christmas. When Christmas day passes, the celebration continues—at least in some countries. In the UK, as well as a number of other countries that used to be part of the British Empire—such as Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada—Boxing Day is a bank public holiday that […]
Thanks to all my friends who visit the Weather Center and a Merry Christmas. We finally have snow covering the ground, perhaps a bit over an inch here in Otsego from the lake effect which is currently out over the lake at this time (4 am). The snow is expected to move back onshore with […]
The winds are howling this morning and a few snowflakes have begun to fall bringing forth the promised snowfall for Southwest Michigan. We have one of those Amish designed electric fireplaces which may come in handy today and help with the Christmas mood. If you don’t have a fireplace you can use the one below […]
First of all – happy birthday to my lovely wife and SS, have a great day! We will have a warm but windy day today with temps near 50° and some rain late. South winds will gust to near 40 mph. As we move through tonight and early tomorrow morning drastic, chilling changes are on […]
I was looking at last year’s blog posts for the week of Christmas and found we had a total of 10 inches of snow from November through December 18th and 2.5 inches left on the ground on that day. That snow had melted by Christmas with warming temps into the 50s. On December 27th we […]
Once again we see the word ‘snow’ in our forecast and the Nordic gods laugh as they grudgingly give up a bit of their hoard from the Alpines (or not). We are still waiting for our first inch of the white stuff here in Allegan county, though if you added up all the trace amounts […]
Keep in mind when longer-range forecasts and outlooks are made our computer models are looking at systems in the Pacific and trying to guess their formation and track into the continental U.S. (CONUS). This is why the excitement (or trepidation) comes when snow is mentioned in a forecast and there is often a letdown or […]
Winter Solstice This year the winter solstice is on Monday the 21st at 5:02 AM. At that time Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun. The solstice happens at the same instant for all of us, everywhere on Earth. It’s when the sun on our sky’s dome reaches its farthest southward point […]
We had some light snow through most of the area yesterday, enough to barely cover the ground which melted off as quickly as it fell. The shovels, snowblowers and plows remain dormant in SW Michigan. The U.S. has 40.8% snow cover, up from 18% last month. New England has 81.2% snow cover from the storm […]