First off, I would like to wish all mothers a Happy Mother’s day. Celebrations of mother’s and motherhood can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, who held festivals in honor of the mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele, but the clearest modern precedent for Mother’s day is the early Christian festival known as “Mothering Sunday.” Here […]
May is the fifth month of the year and here in the Northern Hemisphere it is the last month of spring. Late May typically marks the start of the summer vacation season in the United States and Canada. No month starts and ends on the same day of the week as May in any year. This month is […]
Ever wonder what it would be like if we lived at about the same latitude in the Southern Hemisphere? In New Zealand the city of Christchurch is located at 43° 31’ south so it is about as far south of the Equator as we are north of it. And thus, their summer is in December, […]
We are now well into April and as is typical this year there have been a lot of up and downs. In looking back April has some of the biggest year to year swings in weather we have here in Michigan. It has been as hot as 90 and as cold as +3 here at […]
The winter and early spring of 1965 was colder then average with March come in with a mean of just 26.9° that was a departure of -9.5° and there was a record snow fall of 36.0” There was 15” of snow on the ground on the 24th That March had snow on the ground every […]
Current Water Levels The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Environment Canada jointly monitor and forecast water levels on the Great Lakes. Information is compiled and disseminated on the USACE Detroit District website. For the most up-to-date information on current water levels of the Great Lakes, visit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website. Measuring […]
As we stay (for the most part) at home it is now time to look ahead and see some averages and top 5’s for the month of April. During April the amount of day light rises rapidly starting the month at about 11 hours 46 minutes and ends the month around 14 hours 6 minutes. […]
With it now officially spring I thought I would look at some past years where March was not all that spring like. First off March 1965. The winter of 1964/65 started off with a colder than average December. While colder than average December 1964 had less snow than average with just 13.4” of […]
I know that covid-19 has been on the news 24/7 but like 9/11 and other national emergencies it is sometimes best to set back and forget about the issues. I do not mean ignore the issue just not think about it all the time. I know most of us on here have weather and weather […]
I found a travel site (from England) that has some good climate information. From time to time I will use that site and post some climate information for different countries around the planet. This week I will look at Finland and Iran. FINLAND Finland has a much milder climate than most other regions of the […]