Late Summer It seems it was just yesterday when we were looking forward to longer days with warm sunshine. Well we are now about to turn the calendar to August. Stepping back and looking and how some others look at our weather the following is from an English travel site. “August is delectably warm in Michigan with mostly […]
We are about to close out the month of July, two-thirds of the summer has gone by and daylight begins to make a rapid retreat. Our weather pattern this month has been fairly active in regards to more severe weather and tornadoes than the past few years, at least in certain areas of the state. […]
We had a storm cell move through early this morning prompting warnings from the NWS. Lots of lightning, thunder, wind and rain. A Thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 9 am. We had .80 of an inch of rain from the storm with an 18 mph wind gust which is pretty good seeing how we […]
At 4 am we have a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for: Van Buren County in southwestern Michigan… Allegan County in southwestern Michigan… Southern Ottawa County in southwestern Michigan… The warning is until 5 am and we have a thunderstorm watch until 9 am for: ALLEGAN BERRIEN CASS KALAMAZOO ST. JOSEPH VAN BUREN We have […]
With the possibility of severe weather tonight I am holding back on weather history today. Being downstream from moderate and enhanced storm risks makes me apprehensive when these storms can come in the overnight hours when everyone is sleeping. Below is the SPC outlook for today and tonight: Convective Outlook A favorable pattern will exist […]
Congrats to Ellen Bacca who is named as the first female chief meteorologist for West Michigan. Bill is going into semi-retirement and has been named Chief Meteorologist Emeritus for WOODV. There is some question as to why Matt Kirkwood or Terri DeBoer didn’t move into the ‘chief’ role – I am thinking it is a […]
I was looking at past posts here and found Slim and I have passed four years here at the Weather Center beginning in June of 2017. Time has flown by as we close in on 1500 posts on this blog. Thanks for stopping by! You can look through past posts by checking out the blog […]
We had a couple more possible tornados in eastern Michigan yesterday (not yet confirmed by the NWS), one near Port Austin in Huron County which damaged a pole barn the other in the Detroit area picked up two vehicles and flipped them over. In SW Michigan we had wind reports of 50 to 55 mph […]
History of heating part one Last week I looked at the history of cooling and this week I will take a look at the history of heating. While cooling has mostly been a newer invention the history of heating is much longer and will take up several post. In retrospect it looks like in history […]
We have a few showers around the area this morning mainly from Pentwater to the south and east (as of 5:30). So keep your umbrella handy for your early morning commute. Warm and humid air will build in today which will be the trigger for showers and storms today and tomorrow. Our current temp is […]