I was curious how many Christmases we had snow on the ground over the past few years I had time to go back to 2008. Seems we have had more green Christmases than white with little or no snow on the ground in the lower half of the Lower Penninsula. Nationally last year there was […]
In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Native Americans shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that […]
We had our first accumulating snow for November yesterday – half an inch here in Otsego. The snow began at 10:30 am and lasted to around noon before it turned to rain with a bit of sleet mixed in. Our high temp for yesterday rose to 39° after a low of 22°. We had a […]
We had a low temp of 22° overnight and temps are slowing rising this morning in advance of a system to our southwest which will be overspreading the state this morning. We have expectations of a touch of winter in the state today with snowfall accumulating in the upper-lower where there is a Winter Weather […]
Yesterday wasn’t the most pleasant day with a high of 38° and .14 of an inch of cold rain and drizzle (in Otsego). Some areas east had some snow which should melt away today. We have had 1.54 inches of rain and a trace of snow in the Otsego area this month with above-normal temps […]
Today I am going to look at the comparison of snow amounts in the CONUS (continental U.S.) over the past few years. We have a Winter Weather Advisory in the extreme S.E. of Michigan until 8 pm for up to four inches of snow which includes Detroit, Jackson and Ann Arbor. [columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] […]
It was 70 years ago and it was a wild month of November. While earlier then month we had a record setting warm spell. Note some would say “heat wave” but 70 years ago on November 25th was the date of the so called big ten football “Snow Bowl” The Michigan/Ohio State football game on […]
We reached 64.8° yesterday at the Weather Center and it is a warm 56° this morning at 5 am. In my humble opinion, it is time for some snow cover to blanket the ground though I noticed in my travels yesterday to Kalamazoo there are still some corn and soybean fields that are waiting to […]
Our relatively mild weather will ramp up once again today. Normal temps are in the low to mid-40s for day time highs and the upper 20s for overnight lows in southern Michigan. In Northern Michigan, the normal temps are the upper 30s and lows in the lower 20s. According to the CPC, we have a […]
We have a temp of 26° at 4:30 this morning with clear skies. We have expectations of another brief warming trend coming for tomorrow and Friday with temps in the 50s to near 60° and it will be breezy once again. Seems we have been consistently windy over the past couple of weeks and it […]