This year we have seen flames ravaging in the west, but during the autumn of 1871, fire swept across part of eastern Michigan laying claim to life, property, and natural resources, primarily in Sanilac, Huron and Tuscola counties. “A skyful of flame, of smoke a heavenful, the earth a mass of burning coals, the […]
First and Lasts As we are now past the half way mark of September 2020 I thought it would be a good time to take a look as some upcoming first and last events. The average last 90° day at Grand Rapids is August 23rd the earliest last one was on June 10, 2000 the […]
As a reminder a El Nino winter is thought to bring a milder winter with less snow fall. Last week I took a look at La Nina winters and found that during the more recent La Nina winters (1950 to 2020) here at Grand Rapids the mean temperature was 24.3 and the average mean average […]
I know it is only early September but every year there is always speculation on what the coming winter will be like. It always makes we wonder how some people think they can tell what a 90 day period of weather will be like 3 to 6 months in advance (unless you are taking […]
We are now in the last weekend of August 2020 and the end of meteorological summer. I know there will be some who will point out that it will stay warm and summer does not end until September 22nd But for weather keeping purposes we will enter meteorological fall on Tuesday. That said as of […]
Last week I wrote about Iceland, this week I will give you a little information on Death Valley. Where for the 2nd in recorded history a reading of 130 or better was recorded. Death Valley is desert valley in eastern California. Badwateris the point of lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet below sea […]
This week I am doing a little world climate travel. And since it is summer and there are a few people who do not like the warm summer weather that we are having this summer I picked a location were winters are mild (for how far north they are) and summers are cool. And that […]
The warmest August on record here in Grand Rapids. August 1947 was a very warm to hot month all across Michigan, it was the warmest or a top 5 in almost all locations. What kind of stood out about August 1947 was that June the departure at Grand Rapids was -4.4° and July’s departure […]
Wow can it be August all ready? Seems like just yesterday it was January 1st and we were just starting the “New Year” The Grand Rapids (1981-2010) mean average temperature for August is 70.1° I would look for that to increase when the updated averages come out. On average there is around 3.6” of rain […]
Storms can profoundly affect the Great Lakes, sloshing water from one end of a lake’s basin to other, sometimes in a matter of hours, like displaced water in a bathtub. This lesson focuses on storm surges and seiches — Great Lakes water movements that can change lake levels dramatically during storms. Surges and seiches can […]