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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Hope you enjoyed the rare all day sunshine yesterday even though it was frigid. The cats and dogs enjoyed it as they were laying in the sunbeams coming through the windows. Safe journey to Slim as he heads south to escape the merciless cold of our northern climate. Enjoy your trip! The winter weather advisory […]