I usually have a weather history post on Wednesdays but with the multiple hazards in place, I will forego that today. We reached 50° yesterday with a low of 26°. We had .50 of an inch of rain (not official) from my digital rain gauge – I will have to melt the precip in my […]
This week will be a good time to stay indoors and hibernate. Those who can’t will wish they could especially with the snow, cold and hazardous conditions we will face over the next several days. The counties along the I96 corridor to the north are under a winter storm warning from 1am to 7pm Monday […]
Dependent on where you are today we have a little (or a lot ) of every thing going on -rain, hail, sleet, storms and snow. The areas in blue are under a winter weather advisory until 1pm today for mixed precipitation. Wet snow accumulations of up to one half inch and ice accumulations of a […]
The storm track is becoming a bit more clear but the issue is still when the rain will change over to snow. Ottawa, Kent, Allegan, Van Buren and Kalamazoo counties and to the east continue with the winter weather advisory until 10 pm tonight. The counties in pink have a winter storm warning where up […]
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 […]
Lots to talk about today in regards to the next winter storm coming our way. The areas in light blue including Allegan, Barry, Eaton and Ingham counties are under a winter weather advisory which run from 9pm this evening through midnight Friday night. We can expect 4 to 7 inches in these counties. Ottawa, Kent, […]
We have an air temperature at -9° and a wind chill of -16° at 7am here in Otsego. There is some hope at the end of the tunnel of warmer temperatures not far away as the bone chilling Arctic airmass retreats back into Canada where it belongs. We may even see some rain late next […]
Didn’t put up the weather history last week when I was on vacation – I will present this weeks today then proceed with the forecast information. December 31 1875: The year ends on a remarkably balmy note. At Lansing, the high temperature of 70 degrees is the highest ever recorded in the month of December. […]
Bill Steffen mentioned in his blog yesterday about a quote from Dr. Judah Cohen in regards to the cold air remaining in the long term. At this time there is nothing upstream in the near term to disrupt the current pattern we are in. “Latest CFS runs predict three straight months of ridging near Alaska […]
Seems I have been repetitious over the past few weeks with this blog – more cold, more snow seems to be the weather story once again. Luckily those of us who live inland of 131 are only getting an inch or three at a time. We have an engineer who recently moved to Holland and […]