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November 6th, 2009 at 2:35 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather
<–Aniyah Randall has found the Great Pumpkins! (from POSTED). It should be a warm weekend, with highs a good 10 degrees warmer than average. A north-south band of clouds (see visible satellite in daytime, infrared at night) was smack dab over West Michigan for much of Friday (bad timing). We did see a little sun in the late afternoon, esp. southwest of G.R. I did say last night that the most sun would be in Berrien Co. and that’s been about the only spot that’s had a lot of sun today. Temperatures were about 5 deg. warmer from Holland south along the lake Friday afternoon. Readings were in the mid 60s south of Chicago – low 70s as close as Springfield, IL. We’re going to be in an overall dry and mild pattern through next week. I don’t see any real cold air here for the next 10 days and maybe not until after Thanksgiving. There is a lot of cold air in northern Canada. In fact – Thompson, Manitoba was -13 Thursday morning and they are only about 150 miles north of Lake Winnipeg. Churchill, Manitoba hasn’t been warmer than 18 this week (which is 8 deg. below normal so far). Alert’s average temperature this week is at -8.2F with a low of -26F. There is a fair amount of snow cover in northern Canada and ice is already starting to form in Hudson Bay. Moosinee at the south end of James Bay was +10 Friday morning (it was 18 in Big Rapids, 15 at Leota which is just north of Mt. Pleasant and I had ice on my birdbaths Friday AM). the cold air is biding it’s time and when it breaks loose, we’ll be in for an extended stretch of cold weather and lake-effect snow. Siberia is REALLY cold. Verkoyansk had a HIGH of -38 Thursday. There is a MONSTER low in the Gulf of Alaska…waves to 35 feet at one buoy with winds as high as 60 knots (69 mph). Tropical Storm Ida is brushing Nicaragua and then the Yucatan and bring some heavy rain to Louisiana early next week.
Bill,
thanks for the update on your short term November forecast. If the cold air holds off until after Thanksgiving, that is good news!! Yes, when it breaks loose, it will be nasty around here, but it will eventually get here anyway, so the longer it stays at bay the better…
Bill, I think I heard you say that this harder winter will bring an earlier warmer spring. Do you think that next spring will be a more severe weather spring as opposed to the spring we had this year?
i have heard this may mean an early spring as well. i still don’t believe this winter will be as bad as he says. he also said it would snow as early as october and it didn’t. plus we will be in the mid 60’s this weekend, go figure.
Bill, you refer to lake effect snow fall. How well I remember it. Snow as high as the cross arms on the telephone poles at times. There were no snow days at school, every day was a snowy day. You just walked to school and them that couldn’t make it, we just helped them catch up when they did come to school. I went across country, and when the snow got too deep, we followed the road. No school bus.
Sounds like there may not be tracking snow for deer hunting. That’s ok, while it’s nice to have tracking snow, just as nice to have somewhat milder weather when sitting in the blind.