First off, I will take a look at the weather history for Halloween. At Grand Rapids the average high/low for Halloween is 54/38. The record high of 79 was set in 1950, it has reached 70 or better in 10 years, the last time was in 1981. The coldest maximum of 32 was set […]
Yesterday we reached 78° in Otsego! We have 62° at 6 a.m. this morning with a bit of light rain. Mild with Occasional Showers into the end of the Week Southerly winds will prevail into Friday which will keep the mild to warm weather going. There will also be some moisture arriving so the showers […]
Past El Nino Winters at GR This winter season looks to have a strong to very strong El Nino event. That should give us a winter with less snowfall and mild temperatures. Since 1950 there has been a total of 26 El Nino winter seasons. 11 were weak ones, 7 moderate ones, 5 strong ones […]
We are now deep enough into October when in the past there have been some years when Grand Rapids had its first measurable snow fall. Here are some of the years of those early snow falls that occurred during October 12 thru the 20th Note that since 1950 several of the years of early October […]
We have one more hot day before rain and isolated storms move in tonight. Rain will continue off and on through the weekend with cooler high temperatures in the 60s for Thursday and Friday and in the 50s for Saturday and Sunday which is a reminder we are in October not July or August. Our […]
The average mean temperature for October at Grand Rapids is 51.5 the record warmest October was in 1900 with a mean of 59.1. That October had 4 days in a row with highs in the mid 80’s. The record coldest October was in 1925 with a mean of 42.9. That October had 4 days in […]
We had .71 of an inch of rain yesterday after 14 days of only .11 of an inch. Our monthly total for the month in Otsego is now 2.94 inches. We can expect scattered showers once again today in SW Michigan as a low-pressure system continues to meander across the state. Like yesterday we may […]
We are heading toward at least a strong El Nino and maybe even a very strong El Nino. What will this mean for our upcoming winter season? Here is a video on what we could expect from a strong El Nino. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbLxRfNF-jE In the video you can see that in most of the past strong […]
This week I will look at some off the wall weather events in the past. September 9th 1921 – A dying tropical depression unloaded 38.2 inches of rain upon the town of Thrall in southeastern Texas killing 224 persons. 36.4 inches fell in 18 hours. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel) 1944 – The “”Great Atlantic Hurricane”” […]
Yesterday we had another 90° muggy day after a morning low of 69°. We have some rain and storms moving in our direction from Chicago which will be the beginning of a flip in our weather pattern. There is a marginal risk of severe weather today (level one of five). Showers and thunderstorms will be […]