Winter Solstice This year the winter solstice is on Monday the 21st at 5:02 AM. At that time Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun. The solstice happens at the same instant for all of us, everywhere on Earth. It’s when the sun on our sky’s dome reaches its farthest southward point […]
December 1920 Just for the fun of it I thought I would look at the winter season of 1920/21. That winter sort of like this one so far was mild. . Now some would expect that 100 years ago winters would always be colder and snowier than now. Well in 1920 there was no snow […]
December and Meteorological Winter You may hate it or love it but either way we are now about to enter meteorological winter. Of course, the months of December, January and February are the coldest months of the year here in west Michigan. In most winters they are the months with the most snow fall. Records […]
It was 70 years ago and it was a wild month of November. While earlier then month we had a record setting warm spell. Note some would say “heat wave” but 70 years ago on November 25th was the date of the so called big ten football “Snow Bowl” The Michigan/Ohio State football game on […]
November 2020 had the most 70’s days of any November at Grand Rapids. With 6 days of 70 or better 2020 had the most of any November. And was the warmest first 10 days of any November. For the first 10 days of November 2020 the mean at Grand Rapids was 55.7 that is […]
November Storms 1975 and 1998 November 1975 was somewhat similar to this November as it also started out very mild. But November 10th that year there was a great storm on the great lakes and that evening came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was put into service on June 8, […]
Halloween & Time Change & November Here are some weather extremes for Halloween at Grand Rapids. The warmest Halloween was 79 in 1950 the second warmest was 78 in 1937 and the third warmest was 76 in 1976. The coldest was 20 in 1988 with 24 in 1979 being the 2nd coldest and 25 in […]
Hurricane Sandy formed in the central Caribbean on October 22nd 2012. Sandy intensified into a hurricane before hitting Jamaica, eastern Cuba and the Bahamas. Sandy moved northeast away from the US until October 28th when it took a turn to the NW. The track of Sandy resulted in a worse case scenario for storm surge […]
We are now half way thru October so just for the fun of it here are some common winter folklore sayings. If the first week in August is unusually warm, the coming Winter will be snowy and long. For every fog in August, There will be a snowfall in Winter. If a cold August […]
12 Decades Weather records have been kept by the NWS office at Grand Rapids since 1892 but between 1892 and 1898 there is data that is missing. But starting in 1898 there is good data. This week I will look at the annual mean average temperature for each decade from 1900 to 2019. […]