Made a few changes to the Forecast Page for faster loading and to take care of some background script issues. That is the problem of being a one man band in regards to keeping the site running; when something starts going wrong I have to do a lot of debugging myself. I talked to some…
Snow For Halloween?
1917/18 & The winter of 1917/18
This picture is from Greenvile Jan 12, 1918 This one is from Grand Haven on the same day. One hundred years ago Grand Rapids had its coldest year in recorded weather history. The mean temperature for the year was 44.6° The average mean is 49.4° the next coldest year was 45.2° in 1904…
NOAA Winter Outlook
Many of the major players of winter forecasting are coming close together on predicting our forecast for this winter. NOAA has released their winter forecast. The graphics below (click to enlarge) show we have equal chances of above or below normal temperatures and a 40% chance of above normal precipitation. [columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] “If…
Northern Hemisphere Weather Conditions – Tornado Outbreak in 2007
Today we look at the weather over the northern hemisphere – some of these will auto-update so you can check back on this post for updates… What goes around usually comes around meaning whatever is going on in Europe, Canada and Russia will eventually have an effect on our weather in the future. Typhoons and…
CFSv2 Winter Forecast
Before I put up my winter forecast next month let’s take a look at the current CFSv2 forecast for this winter. This is the super long range model compared to the HRRR (High Resolution Rapid Refresh) which goes out to a few hours, the NAM (The North American Mesoscale Forecast System) which goes out four…
wx History for the Week & Weather Pattern Change
Weather History for the Week October 15 1899: Muskegon hits 86 degrees for their highest October temperature on record. 1944: Cold air is firmly entrenched in Lower Michigan with record lows of 23 degrees at Grand Rapids and 25 degrees at Muskegon. October 16 1943: A snowstorm drops an inch or two of slushy snow…
Winter Storm Names
Winter storm naming in the United States has been used since the mid 1700s in various ways to describe historical winter storms. These names have been coined from days of the year that the storm impacted, to noteworthy structures such as a theatre the storm had destroyed. In recent years winter storm naming has become…
The Great Waldo Flood
I was watching the conditions deteriorate in Kalamazoo and photos coming in from Waldo Stadium as the water keep on rising yesterday morning and afternoon. (Image is by Kaytie Boomer). It was so bad pieces of the turf began to bubble up. Needless to say the home coming game was cancelled with hopes the ground…
Weak La Nina winters
With what looks like could be a weak La Nina or natural state developing for this up coming winter lets take a look at what happened in (going back to 1950) here in Grand Rapids in the winters that were weak La Nina and neutral years (not El Nino or La Nina) Here is a…
Changes in Winter Weather Statements
I have been limping my way towards a winter forecast, actually trying to avoid it because of what happened last year and the uncertainty of a flip this year. So in my avoidance I bring the NWS changes in winter weather statements this year. Due to issues of non clarity and confusion on why ‘this’…