Sunny October!
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:31 am by Terri DeBoer under Weather
West Michigan is enjoying a very bright month of October. The month of October begins our slow and steady march toward the ‘darker season’, when not only does the amount of daylight shrink, but we also become much cloudier.
Through the first 3 weeks of this October, however, we have enjoyed a sunnier than average month. In a typical October, our average percentage of available sunshine is 44%. This month, we have recorded almost 48% of available sunshine. If you take away the data from the 5 cloudiest days of the month, the remaining days have featured a whopping 62% of available sunshine, including 6 days with Sunny or Mostly Sunny conditions.
Looking ahead to the weekend, the clouds may rule our skies with scattered showers, after finishing the rest of the workweek with at least partial sunshine.
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I remember being out on opening day of deer season and it was a sultry -5 degrees. Other years it was in the 60’s. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
As long as we have Terri’s Sunny smile in the morning we’ll be ok.
You could bring back the sun… We were pumpkin carving outside last year…looks like inside this year!!!
Hi Terri, My son has been a weather nut ever sence he was a baby, he is now 9. Sence he has been born everytime the news comes on the music is what he heard first,but he would wip his head around and listen no matter what he was doing.Anyway the reason I am emailing you is because Ivan goes to Rockford Chistian and would love you either to come to his school or if they could come to you.He would be in his glory.His teachers name is Mrs.Werdon.
I’d be curious to know what year it was 5 below in the middle of november?
1982 or 1983
In the early evening with clear skies, one can see juipiter, mars and venus in the southern skies. Venus is very bright while jupiter is close in brightness. Mars can be seen when it gets alittle darker out. Also, orion’s belt is a great sight at about one or two a.m. Check it out!!