I enjoyed the Spotter training yesterday – very informative. This is my third year and it seems I pick up more info every year. If you want a copy of the Skywarn field guide you can find it here. You can get the spotters guides here. Here is the Skywarn main page. It was great […]
Pretty much the whole state of Maine has snow warnings in place for up to two feet of snow and winds up to 35mph. When I lived out there in the 1970s nor’easters didn’t seem to be a big deal with the exception of having to dig out driveways and plank over the snow the […]
Snow showers, locally heavy at times, can be expected the next couple days as slow moving low pressure continues to impact the area. This morning the heaviest snow showers will be from Grand Rapids to the south and east. The snow showers will finally end for the weekend, although it will remain chilly. We have […]
Latest thinking is that snow will end a little earlier than previously expected, with activity tapering off from northwest to southeast during the afternoon. This map shows how much additional snow will fall after 6AM this morning. Radar estimates and ground reports indicate that we have already seen between 2 and 4 inches over the […]
Just a brief burst of excitement from the Superbowl last night – WOW!!! Not a lot of defense until the end of the game when the Eagles got after Brady. I would have to rank this game the best I have seen and I have seen a lot of them. The Eagles came out on […]
When my grandfather was still alive he kept every Michigan license plate he owned nailed to a wall in his shed from the first plate Michigan released through 1990. It wasn’t until 1910 that Michigan issued its first official license plates. They were made out of heavy cast iron then sealed with a glossy porcelain […]
The two pictures above are from the first Alabama rest area. As you may know my wife and I took a cruise trip and this week I will go the interesting weather we had on the trip from Grand Rapids to Cocoa Beach, Florida. We left Grand Rapids on January 16th The temperature was […]
We here along the lakeshore shall begin picking up some lake effect snows later today, not a whole lot by Michigan standards but enough to cover the ground again with 2 to 6 inches from 131 to the west. The winter weather advisory covers Ottawa, Allegan, Van Buren, Kalamazoo, Mason, Lake, Oceana and Muskegon counties counties. […]
Today I have a service awards banquet to go to – 35 years at Perrigo Company. For those of you who don’t know what Perrigo is – it is the largest OTC pharmaceutical company in the world with multiple facilities in the U.S., Ireland, Mexico, China, Israel, India and Australia. The picture to the left […]
We have light snow over the area this morning – a few spots near Lansing saw around 6 inches of snow early on! It is interesting to see the radar over Lansing showing the snow rotating from northeast to south west pretty much hanging out over that area. There is a winter weather advisory for […]