November is the last of the “Fall” months and it can at times be close to a winter month. The average H/L starts out at 53.6/37.8 and falls to 41.0/28.6 by the 30th. The warmest mean for November is 47.6 in 1931 and the coldest mean is 31.0 in 1951. The record high for the […]
First off, I will be posting this late on Friday instead of Saturday morning as I will be taking my son and daughter-in-law to the airport. Todays post will not include the latest weather forecast but I will put in what is the forecast before midnight. I will look at the weather history for Halloween. […]
We still have a while to go, and we do not know how this winter will play out. Last winter Grand Rapids had its 2nd warmest December on record with a mean of 38.3 January had a mean of 27.1 and February had a mean of 35.4 good for the warmest February on record. The […]
Back on this day October 12, 2006, the earliest snowfall of 1” or better when 2.0” fell at Grand Rapids. There was also over 1” of snow at Flint with 2.3” and Lansing 1.5” the next earliest snowfall of 1” or better was on October 19,1989. Here is a complete list of years when […]
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. I also looked at […]
I work for the West Michigan Whitecaps and with the Tigers getting into the playoffs for the 1st time since 2014 is a great thrill for me as I have seen many of the teams players play here in Grand Rapids. It will be October next week so now is a good time to […]
First and Lasts As we are now past the halfway mark of September 2024 I thought it would be a good time to take a look at some upcoming fall/winter first and last events. The average last 90° day at Grand Rapids is August 23rd. There have been two summers without a 90° day. The […]
Sault Ste Marie The week before Labor Day we were up in Sault Ste Marie on the Ontario side. One of the days we were there the temperature was 86. That is very warm for the Sault. So, I was wondering just how often it gets hot up in the Sault area. Well for the most […]
While it has been rather calm hurricane season so far but with the Hurricane season now underway it is a good time to look at the Hurricane Saffir- Simpson scale. History The scale was developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Robert Simpson, who at the time was director of the U.S. […]
Tomorrow we will put meteorological summer behind us and entered the meteorological fall season. The next few weeks there is still a chance of some warm days but after the 15th to the 20th there will be a noticeable decline in both daylight and temperatures. Here are some averages for Grand Rapids for meteorological fall. The current […]