A triple dip La Nina At this point it looks like the upcoming winter will a have so called triple dip La Nina. What that means is it will be the 3rd winter in a row with La Nina conditions. Now what will that mean for the winter season? Well back in their September 15th […]
It has been quite some time since we have had decent rain in our forecast, way back on the 26th of September. We have had .63 of an inch so far from our current system. Yesterday’s high was 75° and the low was 40°. We expect rain today with gusty winds this afternoon with a […]
First/Last We are now one week into the month of October and as there will be a number of seasonal first and lasts. I thought it would be a good time to look at some average dates along with the earliest and latest dates for some for some events. First off, the first of the […]
Yesterday we reached 71° for our high after a morning low of 35°. We can expect highs today in the low to mid-70s with a bit more in the way of cloud cover as the area of high pressure begins to move out of the state. Rain showers move in on Thursday then much cooler […]
Welcome to October! At Grand Rapids the average 30 year mean for October is 51.5° there is a average of 4.02” of rain and melted snow fall. The average snow fall is 0.3” The record high at Grand Rapids is 89 way back on October 1st 1897 in more recent times it reached 88 on […]
I am assembling this post Tuesday Afternoon as I will be out of town Wednesday. At this time it appears the weather will be more pleasant than it has been the past few days with the exception of the temperatures remaining on the cool side. Wednesday night we may be seeing some frost as temps […]
Right on clue we jumped into autumnal equinox with a big cool down and now have settled into a much cooler weather pattern. While we very much could see some warm days ahead we can say that we have turned the corner and the days will be getting shorter (as related to daylight) We have […]
Yesterday our high in Otsego was 77° and the low was 53°. Our rainfall total was .10 which brought us to .85 of an inch for the month. The thunderstorms passed to our west in the afternoon as we were driving down 131 to Kalamazoo my wife and I were marveling at the interesting cloud […]
A Winter Guess It is now mid-September, and it is time for a first winter 2022/23 winter guess well sort of. The Old Farmers Almanac is now out and their winter 2022/23 guess. For the upcoming winter according to the Almanac our area will be colder than average (for them is that new?) The coldest […]
Yesterday we had a high of 73° and the low was 47°. For the rest of the week, we will see no rain and warming temperatures back into the 80s. Sunset tonight will be at 7:54 pm. Weather History for SW Michigan September 11 1986: Clusters of thunderstorms moving along a stalled front bring record […]