1964 Alaska earthquake Sunday marks the 58 anniversary of the strongest earthquake to hit North America. The quake was centered about 74 miles southeast of Anchorage. Just about all of Alaska felt the 9.2 earthquake. It was reported that the Space Needle in Seattle some 1200 miles away wobbled. At 5:36 p.m. on […]
astronomical spring Astronomical spring starts on Sunday at 11:33 AM that is when the sun is over the equator and thus the spring equinox. Now one would think that is the start of the spring season and in many locations that is true but here where we live just south of the halfway point between […]
After the clouds departed we had a rather nice day in SW Michigan. Our high temp yesterday was 57° and the low 31°. We should exceed that today with lots of sun and temps in the low to mid-60s. Tomorrow will be another warm day with temps in the low 60s though we will have […]
Ides of March First off Sandy late yesterday asked when the 2022 Sky warn training was going to be and if it was online. Here is the information for west Michigan https://www.weather.gov/grr/spottertraining and here are some links for SE Michigan for the https://www.weather.gov/dtx/spotter2 When I was growing up weather forecast and up to the minute […]
We have another calm day today. We will see a weak cold front moving through today with little or no snow with the exception of weak snow showers well up north. Our best chance of snow of the winter’s last gasp will come late Friday into Saturday though to me it doesn’t look very significant […]
In 1976 I still worked and lived in the Bay City area. I was at work on the night of the start of the biggest ice storm to hit much of Michigan. The great ice storm struck Lower Michigan on March 2nd and 3rd 1976. The ice storm is still the worst widespread ice storm […]
Yesterday we had a high temp of 45° and a low of 22° with just a trace of drizzle in the afternoon. We should see more sun today than yesterday though temps will only be around 30°. Looking at the short-term forecast we may see 60° on Saturday and the mid-50s on Sunday before crashing […]
Next Tuesday we flip the calendar to not only March but to the start of meteorological spring. While we can swing between some mild days and some cold one’s daylight is getting longer and here in Grand Rapids we gain 1hr and 31m of daylight in the next 31 days of (March). With start […]
We had .81 of an inch of rain yesterday which gives us 3.79 inches of rain and melted snow for the month. We had a dusting of snow overnight. The high temp yesterday was 51° and the low was 26°. We have 25° at 4 am. The only hazard we have this morning in the […]
Last week I looked at the great cold spell of February 1899. This week I will look at the warmest days of February in what I will call the 60° club. The temperature at Grand Rapids has gotten to 60 or better in 14 February’s. The record warmest day in February is 69 on February […]