Wow, what a Saturday! To have a tornado go right through the metropolitan Grand Rapids and Wyoming areas…and to have no injuries or deaths. That is truly amazing and I am so grateful everyone is safe. (READ MORE)
June 8, 1953: Beecher Tornado
I have always been amazed by weather. I should have probably followed that interest and became a meteorologist where I could have lived and breathed weather every day. (READ MORE)
January 26, 1978: The Blizzard of ’78
January 26th marks the 44th anniversary of the “Blizzard of ’78”! What were you doing 44 years ago? If you were living in Michigan at the time, you were probably doing a lot of snow shoveling. This storm was one of the biggest snow storms to every hit this area. A low-pressure system moving from the Gulf Coast met with two other low-pressure systems, one from the Southwest and one from Canada, to create one of the worst snowstorms the Midwest has ever seen. (READ MORE)
Random Thoughts for Monday, January 20th, 2020
It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Time Lapse of a Lot of Snow, Cheaper Beer, New Pot Tarts, and Who is Going to the Super Bowl? (READ MORE)
Random Thoughts for Sunday, January 19th, 2020
How much Snow at Your House?, My Trip to Grand Haven on Saturday Evening, and the Results of not one, but two Surveys. And we do our own Survey! (READ MORE)
Random Thoughts for Friday, January 17th, 2020
More Weekend Weather (“Heart Attack Snow”?), Get Your Pronto Pups, Germs in Your Bed, Sleeping Naked, and He Put his Junk in What? (READ MORE)
Random Thoughts for Saturday, January 11th, 2020
More Weekend Weather, another Celebrity Death, Past Fantasies have come to Life, and the William Tell Overture like you’ve never heard it. (READ MORE)