The feature image is taken in Siberia – I would recommend goggles to keep your eyes from freezing. Oymyakon, Russia — already considered the world’s coldest permanently inhabited town — sank to a mind-numbing 88 degrees below zero on Tuesday. That’s even colder than the average temperature on Mars, which is 80 below zero, according to…
Another hard fact of this winter is the lack of ice on inland lakes much to the chagrin of ice fishermen (and women) who delight in sitting for hours on end pulling fish out of a 8 inch hole in sub freezing weather. Sadly this may be a year known as the year without ice…
The feature image is a snapshot of the sun yesterday showing only one sunspot…. The sun has more effects on the earth than heat and light. Solar winds, flares and sunspots have been studied for years to find the correlation between our weather and solar activity. In one study it was thought that low solar…
My wife and I both cook, generally rather well with years of experience under our belts. My specialties are fish, liver and onions and last night I made lamb chops. The latter two are acquired tastes as is wild game which we also like having been raised and grown into these diets. I am also…
It is 6am and we have a freezing mix of precip moving into the area. This is not going to be a pleasant day for outdoor festivities in the state. The feature image from the NWS shows a wide variety of weather for Michigan today and tonight. The winter weather advisory has now included counties…
For those of you wondering about why a warning hasn’t been issued, our GRR NWS office is holding true to the criteria of what product needs to be made for this event. Yes, the snow is falling and the wind is blowing, however the advisory is closer to the criteria of what we have now….
According to model predictions the area between Grand Rapids to Kalamazoo and eastward to Lansing appear to be in the sweet spot for heavy wet snow tonight into Monday morning. This mornings NAM, NAM NEST and GFS are all consistent with over six inches of heavy wet snow. With lake effect mixed in lakeshore counties…
I was very sad to hear of the passing of Roy Clark. In my book he was one of the greatest banjo and acoustic guitar players of all times. Many don’t know he was an accomplished mandolin, fiddle and classical guitar player also. His life was so much more than Hee Haw which ran from…
As I said last week I am going to post what the weather is looking like in regards to our winter forecast every Thursday. I believe it is still to early to figure out what December will bring let alone the rest of the winter. However we can look at what is going on now….