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 […]
Thunderstorm Types Often called “popcorn” convection, single-cell thunderstorms are small, brief, weak storms that grow and die within an hour or so. They are typically driven by heating on a summer afternoon. Single-cell storms may produce brief heavy rain and lightning. A squall line. [+] A multi-cell storm is a common, garden-variety thunderstorm in which new […]
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, […]
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. […]
Another year has passed us by which weather wise had been on the warm side until the last couple months when the bottom has dropped out which has brought us the coldest air we have seen in quite some time. The warnings and advisories will expire at noon today. Occasional bursts of snow will affect […]
The temperatures have been hovering at -2° early this morning here in Otsego with negative numbers being pretty consistent across SW Michigan with the exception of the lakeshore where they have been above 0°. Temperatures in the northern lower and the U.P. are in the double digit negative numbers. Looking at the long range it […]
Hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas. One of the more interesting gifts I received is a storm glass (to the left) from my step-daughter. The storm glass or chemical weather glass was an instrument which was proposed as a method for predicting weather. It consisted of a special liquid placed inside a sealed transparent […]
Definitely a white Christmas over most of the area. We had a quick dump of snow when the lake effect band moved on shore early this morning. Kalamazoo is reporting 5 inches, we have about 4 inches here in Otsego. The lake effect bands are starting to set up as of 7am, though weak at […]
[kad_youtube url=”https://youtu.be/mN7LW0Y00kE” maxwidth=600 ] This is one of the old Christmas standards from Dean Martin and is a good segue into this holidays weather coming up. We have multiple winter weather advisories for the area and warnings for St. Joseph and Berrien Counties. Here is the latest from the NWS as of 7:30am. Unless otherwise […]