Weather History 1961: 6 to 12 inches of snow fall across southwest Lower Michigan. The storm drops 12.2 inches at Grand Rapids, the heaviest April snowfall on record there. On April 16th, 2018, Flint exceeded its all-time record snowfall of 83.9″ set in the winter of 2013-2014. A light snow accumulation of 0.2″ put the…
Weather History – Warming Temperatures – 4/16
Michigan Weather History – 4/15
Weather History 1943: Temperatures plunge into the teens as snowflakes swirl in the arctic winds. Record lows include 16 degrees at Muskegon and 18 degrees at Grand Rapids. 2002: A four day stretch of record warm weather peaks across Lower Michigan with Grand Rapids hitting 86 degrees and Lansing 84. 2018: A late season winter…
Weather History & Forecast 4/14
1953: It is a cold morning across Lower Michigan. Record low temperatures include the 20 degrees at Muskegon and the 21 degrees at Grand Rapids. On April 14, 2018, a mid-season Spring storm spanning April 13th-15th reached its peak. After widespread rain the night of April 13th ended as freezing rain and accumulating sleet the…
Weather History, Meteotsunamis. & Forecast 4/13
Weather History 1941: Temperatures reach the 80s across Lower Michigan. Record highs set on this date include 87 degrees at Detroit, 82 at Lansing, and 80 at Grand Rapids. 1950: High temperatures struggle to reach the mid and upper 20s across Lower Michigan after morning lows in the teens. At Lansing, the high temperature is…
Christchurch, New Zealand
Ever wonder what it would be like if we lived at about the same latitude in the Southern Hemisphere? In New Zealand the city of Christchurch is located at 43° 31’ south so it is about as far south of the Equator as we are north of it. And thus, their summer is in December,…
Weather History – 4/11
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Weather History – 4/10
NOTE: This would be a good time to subscribe to my Substack site as I have been having a lot of foreign actors phishing and trying to hack into this site. It has been time-consuming and expensive to keep this site going so I am eventually going to be using Substack exclusively. Don’t forget to…
Weather History – 4/9
1969: A brief tornado damaged a house near Loomis in Isabella County. 1973: A snowstorm dumps 3 to 8 inches of snow across much of Lower Michigan. Record snowfall for the date includes 6.5 inches at Muskegon, 5.2 inches at Lansing, and 4.4 inches at Grand Rapids. 2008: A tornado hit from near Plainwell in…
Weather History – 4/8
1938: A snowstorm drops several inches of snow across southern Lower Michigan. Lansing sets a record for the day with 5.1 inches and Grand Rapids with 4.3 inches. 1947: Three to five inches of rain and warmer temperatures combine with melting snowpack and partially frozen ground to cause some disastrous flooding along the Grand and…
Weather History For 4/7
1954: A tornado destroyed two barns and damaged a house and apartment building near Fulton in Kalamazoo County. 1982: Temperatures plunged to nearly zero as Arctic high pressure persisted over the Great Lakes states. Lansing falls to 2 below zero for a record low for the date and the latest sub-zero temperature on record. Muskegon…