The cold air pours in
February 26th, 2009 at 3:10 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather
Friday PM: This is a map from the GRR NWS of rainfall Thursday PM. The heaviest was from Muskegon up into Newaygo Co. Rainfall totals were 3/4″ to over 2″. We’ve had several reports of water going over roads. They did have a BLIZZARD WARNING for Marquette and Munising. The low pressure center will come right over central Lower Michigan. The storm spread heavy snow across northern Wisconsin, Upper Michigan and far northern Lower Michigan…with 4-8″ reported. A Winter Storm Warning has been issued for areas north of a line from Frankfort to just south of Alpena. The 16-day GFS plot keeps us on average a little cooler than normal for the first two weeks of March. Here’s GRR discussion. Looks like a pretty good shot of cold air on the way for the weekend. March will come in not so much like a lion or a lamb, but more like a polar bear!
41F here, no rain yet but it will be here any time now.
Around 40F here in Kentwood and pretty steady rain coming. Showing the “yard work” waiting from our family dog! Rumbles of thunder and flashes of lightening sound like spring! I’m keeping my fingers crossed to have that small taste of them tonight!
i hear a rumble of thunder!!!!
Torrential is the only word to describe the rain we’re getting right now. Fair amount of lightning and thunder as well. Very dark here.
Blue Box now out for Missouri and parts of Illinois
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0032.html
Watching a couple of chasers streaming video live from Missouri.
and it’s all coming here!!! hope it stays strong
1707 lightning strieks on the radar
ehh..I dont think theres anything to get excited about tonight. BLAH sick of the rain..ready for some real storms.
I just talk to my boyfriend, he is driving his semi just outside of Springfield, MO and says the lightning is impressive.
Rainfall Reports from my automated stations from M.A.C. As of 8:53pm
Blissfield: 0.12
Jasper: 0.15
Lansing: 0.53
Brown City: 0.25
Marlette: 0.08
Breckenridge: 0.42
Middleton: 0.55
Newaygo: 0.84
0.05″ here up through 9 pm. Big deal! Did have one stroke of lightning and thunder.
Heavier rain is coming into Holland, just heard 3 rumbles of thunder over the last 5 minutes. Minor road flooding along 32nd street west of Holland.
Thunder is shaking my house…this is great!
Some smaller areas of red on the radar (GRLevel3) out over Lake Michigan.
Quick get Noah, the roads are flodding in Muskegon. Raining cats and dogs here with some thunder.
Todd….i was outside bringing the trash out and there was a flash of lightning that actually blinded me. My house shook so hard from that rumble of thunder that followed within seconds, that some thing actually fell. That was pretty cool, did you get anything like that? I am in the heights area near the country club. I think there was a lightning strike somewhere near the Paw Paw Park.
Window rattling thunder here. We’ve had two good claps in the last 10 minutes. Raining hard.
Had some loud thunder in Allegan with some gusts to about 30 mph.
Just drove home from work on 196 from Grandville to the Beltline. Heavy rain, lots of ponding of water, patchy dense fog, and the road is falling apart. All in all not a relaxing drive.
it is EXTREMELY foggy out be careful everyone!
Had some lightning and thunder alittle while ago. When is our next snow storm?
no fog here … the wind is impressive though!
Radar Estimate: Storm Total Precipitation: NWS Grand Rapids
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=grr&product=NTP&overlay=11101111&loop=no
why dont we have a dense fog adv?
Well at my home we had a couple rumbles of thunder and flashes of lightning, main story was the rain, melted most all the snow except for those stubborn piles…
According to the weather station nearby: 1.68″ total for this event. Highest recorded gust was 17mph, and it’s currently 42F. It’s a rapid fire style weather station to the info is updated every couple seconds.
Rainfall Reports from my automated stations from M.A.C. As of 2:25am Friday
Blissfield: 0.32
Jasper: 0.39
Lansing: 0.83
Brown City: 0.51
Marlette: 0.28
Breckenridge: 0.97
Middleton: 1.11
Newaygo: 1.83
I just took the trash to the road, a light coat of sleet and freezing rain on everything but here is the messed up part. I get to the road and people are just driving along like nobody’s business… I walked on the road across it and up and down it IT’S LIKE A SKATING RINK!!
SLOW DOWN ON YOUR TRAVELS THIS MORNING FOLKS!!!
ditches are up…..glad to see it shouldn’t rain or snow the next few days….lets send it to the big lakes and get ready for summer….I’m ready now.