Trick or Treat November is just around the corner, and we will have to see if this year November will be a trick or a treat. The updated 30 year average the high/low starts out at 53.6/37.2 on the 1st and falls to 41.0/28.6 by the 30th the record high and the record low […]
Fire in the Sky There are no official weather records for the summer of 1871 for the state of Michigan in fact most locations do not have a official weather record for any dates before the 1880’s at best and while Lansing has records back to 1863 the records for 1871 and 1872 are missing. […]
October vs Winter While it is still too early to tell how the rest of October 2021 will play out one thing for sure the first half was very warm. So, will a warm October and the warmer waters of the great lakes lead to a snowy winter season this winter? Well, I took a […]
Fall Color While there is some spotty good color on the drive between Grand Rapids and the Bay City area the “official” reports are that the color is still a week or two away yet. I am sure that some of the color may even be later than that. But that said the trees that […]
Welcome to October I am up in the Bay City area. My mother in laws funeral is going to be on Monday. It has been a very stressful few weeks for my wife as she has been up here for the better part of a month helping her mother be for her mother was taken […]
Floods of 1986 While it has been somewhat dry this year this week post is about a September that was very wet and caused some of the worst flooding in central Michigan’s history. This month marks the 35th anniversary of the Great Flood of 1986, an incredible weather event that was described as “Michigan’s greatest […]
9/11 As we all know today marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11. We all know what happened that day so I will not go into the details of the events of that sad day. But feel free to post what you were doing that morning. I was working 3rd shift at that time, and I […]
Labor Day Week I titled this report Labor Day Week because I will go over some records for the week of September 1st to September 7th Labor Day falls on the 1st Monday in September and of course that can be any day between the 1st and the 7th This year it is on the […]
And Now onto Fall Where did summer go? Next week we not only flip the calendar to September we also slip into meteorological autumn. I know there are some people that do not like the warmer temperature and high humidity of summer and look forward toward the fall season. Well, I am a weather enthusiast […]
La Nina coming? There are indications that for the second year in a row a La Nina maybe coming. ENSO-neutral is favored for the remainder of summer (~60% chance in the July-September season), with La Niña possibly emerging during the August-October season and lasting through the 2021-22 winter (~70% chance during November-January). Recently, sea surface […]