Lots of snow this month – I have dog runs I cleared out with the snow blower in my back yard. The dogs seem to be more content to porpoise through the snow ignoring my thoughtful trails. We have a large back yard full of dog tracks. My older Aussie just kind of plows his…
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…
It is time for our weekly look at past weather events. February 4 1838: An ice jam on the Grand River causes flooding of much of Grand Rapids during early February. Several people had to be rescued from flooded neighborhoods and at the fur trading post. 1996: One of the coldest arctic outbreaks of the…
Feature image is from Sandy (Hudsonville) taken near the piers in Holland, thanks. If you have a photo you would like posted email it to me and I will eventually get them up. We are now experiencing synoptic snow events rather than the lake effect we have had in the previous month. So far 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…