Weather Trivia Day The naming of hurricanes and tropical storms officially began in 1953. The wind doesn’t make a sound until it blows against an object. Average global temperature is up 0.94°C (1.7°F) since 1880. Fire whirls are tornadoes made of fire caused by wildfires. At any given time, on average there are about…
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Weather Trivia and a Wet Forecast
Weather History Day
This week has been great for finishing up outdoor projects before the weather takes a turn towards cold and wet conditions. Out west the second snowstorm of the season is ramping up through Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas. This system will move into our area by Friday bringing rain and the possibility of a few…
More Rain – Weather History Day
We have a warm 69° at 4am this morning with only a couple hundredths of an inch of rain in the past 24 hours (in Otsego). This will be one of those days to do indoor projects with on and off rain. Below is the current 24 hour rainfall map (as of 4am) – there…
Weather History – Microburst
Here we are – another Wednesday and time for our weekly weather history post for Michigan. September 22 1952: Hail covered the ground like snow in Cascade Township, near Grand Rapids. 1961: A tornado hit two miles north of Marne. One person was injured and three buildings were heavily damaged. September 23 2006: Small tornadoes…
Weather Forecasting – Rain Moving Out
In the earliest of time when our ancestors were hunter gatherers and before man settled into cities weather was just a thing to be experienced and observed in the present tense – when it rained you got wet, if it was hot you sweated… When you saw black clouds coming that was your early weather…
Weather History Day
Can’t get much better than this weather-wise. We had 79° for our high yesterday with relatively dry air – our low temp this morning is 57°. Once again most of the U.S. is free from warnings and advisories with the exception of Maine and most of New England where there are frost and freeze advisories…
Weather History – Storm Chances – PM Update
We will be in an unsettled weather pattern for the next few days with chances of rain and storms through Friday. We have a pleasant 66° at 7am this morning. Yesterday we received .32 of an inch of rain then it cleared out and we had a muggy afternoon with temps in the mid 80s. …
Weather History – Cool Weather Today
Weather History August 25 1910: A tornado injured four people near Scottville in Mason County. The tornado destroyed a cement block building, hurling the roof a half mile. Several other buildings were unroofed. 1940: A stalled cold front brings clouds and very cool high temperatures. At Muskegon the high was only 56 degrees and Lansing…
Weather History for the Week
We have a few isolated light rain showers and sprinkles in the area this morning. There is a 30% chance of seeing some sort of rain though most of the time it will be dry through the rest of the week. We have had .69 of an inch of rain in the Otsego area so…
Weather History Day
We had a nice gentle rain for a couple hours yesterday morning – we picked up .41 of an inch, enough for the grass to spring up and require yet another mowing. I built a new log stand yesterday which I carve my totems and tiki. My last one lasted nearly 10 years before the…