I, for one, would like to see some more exciting weather in the area, however, I am not one to hold a grudge against the climate or for what it brings especially when warming temps and sunny skies are predicted. This coming week we will see a warming trend with very little chance of rain. […]
First and Lasts As we are now past the half way mark of September 2020 I thought it would be a good time to take a look as some upcoming first and last events. The average last 90° day at Grand Rapids is August 23rd the earliest last one was on June 10, 2000 the […]
We definitely have a fall like pattern moving into place for today through the weekend with daytime highs struggling to reach 60° and low temps near or at freezing in some areas overnight. Frost is likely Saturday morning over much of the area, with freezing temperatures possible north of Big Rapids and Mt Pleasant. A […]
Though it is not unheard of I hadn’t excepted these headlines quite this soon which generally has been in mid-October the past few years. Looking at the area matrixes for the state we could see the upper 30s south of I96 and at or near freezing north of I96. Some of the lower colder spots […]
The story for the end of the week is the cooling trend coming from a cold front this evening which will push our temps to below seasonal norms. Normal high temps are in the upper 60s. This will only be temporary as temps are predicted to go above normal next week then below normal as […]
The NWS has been hinting at chances of frost coming towards the end of the week with nighttime temps in the upper 30s to low 40s. This would be outside the cities and more or less in the lower-lying areas. Grand Rapids is predicted to be around 43° while Otsego is predicted to be 39° […]
We are looking at a sunny dry period over this week with near-normal temps at least through the first half of the week before cooling back to the 60s the second half. Looking at the NAM, HRRR and GFS precipitation models I am seeing no rain until early next week. Tuesday and Wednesday will be […]
We have had a busy tropical weather season this year with three more named storms in the Atlantic today. TS Sally is expected to make landfall by Monday. Paulette is expected to be well off the eastern seaboard. [columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] KEY MESSAGES: 1. An extremely dangerous and life-threatening storm surge is now expected, […]
As a reminder a El Nino winter is thought to bring a milder winter with less snow fall. Last week I took a look at La Nina winters and found that during the more recent La Nina winters (1950 to 2020) here at Grand Rapids the mean temperature was 24.3 and the average mean average […]
As the headline states the sun will make a brief return today before the clouds roll back in for tonight. This has been a grim reminder of the cloudy days we have during the winter rather than seeing the sun. We barely broke 60° once again yesterday which gave us three days in a row […]