Not much to say weather wise. We have at cool 50° here in Otsego this morning. We have high pressure over the Great Lakes which will give us sunny skies and a comfortable airmass to work and play in right on through the weekend. Our next chance of rain won’t come until Monday. Large portions […]
As I said the other day long range models (GFS) have been pointing to a cooling trend for the rest of the month into the first week of September. The CPC is locking in on this for their guess for the next couple weeks. For the next week we have equal chances of normal/above normal/below […]
otsego Forecast We had another hit or miss day rain wise yesterday. One would have thought with the air as heavy as it was with moisture rainfall totals would have been higher however we managed to squeeze out only a couple hundredths of an inch here in Otsego. There is a very slight chance of […]
We are in the time of year when we can see a change to cooler temperatures as the days become shorter. Temps in the Arctic and northern Canada are cooling and sea ice will start to reform. Some of the models I have been following still show a pattern of up and down patterns in […]
As I have stated before, we get to interested on the weather pattern for our area for any given day without looking at the big picture of the cause and effect of global weather patterns. I think I have covered this before, however it is good to revisit it to have a better understanding of […]
Eastern Allegan County has seemed to be under a rain and storm free bowl this August with less than an inch of rain so far for the month. We have had rain and storms moved all around us the past week or so missing Otsego by a mere mile or two. We had some thunder […]
This is one hurricane that I have a little personal knowledge of. Back in 2002 my sister moved to Fort Myers Florida. And In 2004 she had a house in Cape Coral. Her house was about 3 miles from the Gulf of Mexico and not far from a canal in fact there are many canals […]
Mean annual temperatures refer to the average of the maximum and minimum temperatures of a year, taking the mean average of the coldest month of the year and averaging it with the mean average of the hottest month of the year. The mean annual temperature is a valuable climatology tool that can assess an area’s […]
This is an article from the American Meteorological Association explaining the role the oceans play in our climate. It is rather long, however it is a good explanation of how the ocean currents affect our weather. The ocean is just another piece of the puzzle albeit a large one when figuring our forecasts. I hope […]
We have a few isolated light rain showers and sprinkles in the area this morning. There is a 30% chance of seeing some sort of rain though most of the time it will be dry through the rest of the week. We have had .69 of an inch of rain in the Otsego area so […]