This is one hurricane that I have a little personal knowledge of. Back in 2002 my sister moved to Fort Myers Florida. And In 2004 she had a house in Cape Coral. Her house was about 3 miles from the Gulf of Mexico and not far from a canal in fact there are many canals […]
I write many posts on past weather history and I will add some weather history into todays post as well. When MV wrote on some of his personal history in his youth it gave me the idea to add some of mine. I am several years older than MV as I was born in November […]
When we think of a weather-related cruise ships sinking, we think of The Titanic. Well long after the Titanic sinking came the disaster of the Andria Doria. One was due to ice and the other due to fog. Making its maiden voyage across the Atlantic in 1953, the Andrea Doria did indeed have all the […]
While we have had a very warm July it has been nothing compared to what has been going on in Europe this month Europe is now baking under its second heat wave this month, but this latest is one for the record books. On Thursday, Paris set its all-time temperature high, reaching 108.6 degrees Fahrenheit. […]
With this year’s string of days with highs of 80 or better I thought it would be a good time to see how this stacks up to some past strings. So far this year’s string is at 25 days. As far as I can tell the record here at Grand Rapids is 52 days in […]
On July 6th a Dew Point reading of 82° was reported at Marshal, Michigan Brooks Airport. That location has an automated weather station and from time to time there can be errors from those stations and according to the NWS office that is what happened. On that date Mookie posted that the current DP reading […]
I know that there has been talk of the heat this past week or more but the truth is this past weeks heat and humidity are no comparison to the heat of 2012 or 1936. It very well may not have been nearly as humid in 2012 and 1936 as both happened during a very […]
Here are some averages and past history for the month of July. July of course is generally (but not always) the warmest month of the year here at Grand Rapids. In 1971, 2009 and 2014 June was warmer then July and in 1900, 1937, 1974 and 1959 August was warmer then July. During the month […]
Many of you remember the derecho of May 1998 but there was another major derecho that struck Michigan in July of 1991. Unlike this year May and June of 1991 was very hot and that continued into July as well. The first week of July 1991 seen temperatures in the mid to upper 80’s then […]
I know that not many days go by with some post on how warm Grand Rapids has gotten on one or more days. And in the winter time there are also many days of how much snow has or will fall or how cold it has or will become. So l thought it would be […]