In years past I have posted this as a three day or more period in mid May that there was a chance of a frost or two but this year it has been cool for many of the first two weeks of this May. But anyway here is some information on the Three […]
Merry month of May Welcome to the merry month of May. According to a English travel site this is the weather that can be expected in the month of May here in Michigan. “May brings bright sunshine to Michigan as the cold and windy conditions abate significantly. The average daily temperatures are in the pleasant 58°F (14.4°C) to […]
New Normal While some people like to call them “normal” I would rather call them “average” what I am talking about are the average temperatures, precipitation, snow fall amounts ect. NOAA will soon release a much-anticipated update of U.S. climate data for placing recent weather conditions—such as heat waves and flooding rain—into historical context. Climatologists from […]
I know we all have our own opinions as to the weather in different parts of the world such as it is hot and humid in Florida in the summer (it is) that it is cold in Alaska (for the most part it is) that it rans all the time in the Northwest […]
Palm Sunday 1965 Last week I looked at the 1956 tornado outbreak this week I will take a look at the one on Palm Sunday 1965. Palm Sunday in 1965 was on April 11th The spring of 1965 was cold and stormy. Three feet of snow fell in March at Grand Rapids, making it the snowiest on […]
65 Years ago!!! April 3, 1956, was one of the wildest days in west Michigan weather history, when a violent tornado tore a path through several West Michigan communities. It was one of several strong tornadoes to hit Michigan that day. Unlike this year March 1956 was cold with a mean temperature of 30.1 […]
Just Around the Corner It seems like it was just yesterday that we started meteorological winter and now April is just around the corner. During April Grand Rapids has a increase of about 1 hour and 20 minutes of daylight. The average high/low increases from 52/32 on the 1st to 64/43 by the 30th In […]
A blast From the Past Over the years there have been some big snowstorms on or near St Patrick’s day. In 2014 parts of the mid-Atlantic got walloped. Washington, D.C., received 7.2 inches of snow and for Washington that was some storm. As the 10th-largest March storm in Washington, D.C., it knocked the historic blizzard […]
It seems like it was just yesterday that we set the clocks back to winter time and now it is time to reset them (the clocks) to summer time. There was a time when Michigan was on EST time for the whole year and in the mid or late 1960’s we started going on EDT […]
Thunderstorms. While it is only March it is not too early to think about thunderstorms. It seems to me that the number and intensity of storms has been down the last few years. Any way here is some information on thunderstorms. My sister lived in Fort Myers Florida for about 15 years before she passed […]