We have have been lucky thus far this winter with the lack of synoptic snow events as most of our snow has been from clipper systems. The cold air and lack of moisture, and a mainly north wind has limited lake effect but had built up a snow base over a few weeks rather than […]
Temperatures are 30° colder than they were this time yesterday morning, the ground is white once again. We have a winter weather advisory for central, south central, southwest and west central Michigan through 1pm today mainly due to the flash freeze with sleet freezing rain and snow – snow accumulations will be around a couple […]
The Winter Weather Advisory expires at 9am. Temperatures are around freezing this morning and I feel this is rather balmy compared to the bone chilling air we have been experiencing. The big question is will we have a repeat of last winter or will we have a return to the frigid Arctic airmass. The models […]
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 […]
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 […]
Once again we have a winter weather advisory for the lakeshore counties and one county to the east. Seems this weather pattern has become the norm for the area of late. The snow is piling up an inch or two at a time slowly adding up to the beautiful whiteness we have on the […]
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 […]