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 […]
Looking at the NHC outlook there is nothing of note in the tropics, in the Atlantic, Eastern, or Central Pacific however I suspect things will start ramping up within the next month or so. There is a system over the southern U.S. which may drift out into the Atlantic and form a tropical depression early […]
We have a dry and pleasant day in store with comfortable temps and lower humidity. At 4 am the temp is 64° – yesterday we had a high and low of 83/60° with no rain in Otsego. Our rainfall total for the month is 2.21 inches. Our next chance of rain comes tomorrow night on […]
For what it is worth, the CPC is giving us warmer and dryer than normal conditions for the rest of the month into early August. August is predicted to be warmer than normal with equal chances of above or below normal rainfall. [columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] Rainfall chances today will be well inland probably east […]
As you have probably noticed we have milky skies above us off and on over the past few weeks which is caused by fires out west and in Canada. The jetstream has pulled in smoke from British Columbia, central and southern Canada last week which is a tinderbox as it is in the American west. […]
We have now reached which is typically the warmest part of summer before we reach a faster downward trend of daylight. Today the sun rises at 6:21 and sets at 9:15 giving us 14 hours 54 minutes of daylight. At the beginning of July, sunrise/sunset times were 6:09/9:23 which gave us 15 hours and 14 […]
The Idea of cooling. In the 1840s, long before electricity was invented, John Gorrie, a Florida doctor and inventor thought cooling might be the remedy for fighting disease and keeping people comfortable. He came up a system of interior cooling that involved transporting huge blocks of ice from frozen lakes and streams in the […]
I posted yesterday that we had around 1500 attacks on the website from hackers this week which sadly is the state of the world today. I am thinking whoever is doing it believes the Weather Center is a larger organization than it really is. Computer hackers are unauthorized users who break into computer systems in […]
A side note to begin the post today we shout out “we are debt-free!” having paid off our mortgage yesterday. This is a great feeling after living fairly frugally since all the kids have moved away and have had children of their own. We have 12 grandkids the oldest being 18 and the youngest two […]