<–flooding near Los Angeles CA.  Weds. evening:  Two airplanes were hit by lightning on approach to the Bob Hope Airport.  One injury was reported.  Hundreds of people have been evacuated because of fear of mudslides and flooding.  I-5 is closed north of L.A. due to heavy snow.   A Tornado Warning was issued for Los [...]

<– frost in Kent City Sunday morning, from Charles Russell on POSTED.  Check out the snow on ground that’s left at Krupp’s Resort at Twin Lakes in the U.P. (they had close to 4″!).  Here’s U.P. snow totals.  Light snow has been falling across Wisconsin overnight, with a chance of snow this [...]

The water level of Lake Michigan (and Lake Huron – they’re at the same water level – connected at the Mackinac Bridge) is up one inch in the last week (and 1″ higher than one month ago).   That’s because of increased precipitation (esp. at the south end of Lake Michigan – Michigan City, Indiana [...]

This is a picture I saw on POSTED taken by “ballen07″ at Pere Marquette Park in Muskegon Saturday PM (8/1/09).  Is this a waterspout?  By looking at this picture, I can’t say for sure.  This is a still picture and you can’t see if this feature was rotating and if so, how fast was [...]

The waterspouts on Lake Michigan last Sunday bring to mind a famous waterspout that occurred in Hawaii in January 1971.  The overall storm system unleashed four tornadoes, including a large waterspout on Kona Bay (on the leeward side of the Big Island) that became a strong tornado when it hit land.  Normally tranquil [...]

<–2nd picture (one of many) from Steve Geerlings at the Yacht Basin Marina taken around 11:15 AM.  1st picture off of Port Sheldon taken by Margi Smith and Sharon Barkwell.   At least one waterspout was reported – we had pictures/emails from both Holland and W. Olive.  It’s unstable…we’re getting showers – upper level disturbance [...]

The weather was eerie in Erie today. Three waterspouts were spotted on Lake Erie and up to 5.48″ of rain caused significant flash flooding.  The water flooded the Belle Valley Fire Dept. up to 4 1/2 feet deep, causing 1/2 million dollars in damage.  A disaster emergency was declared in Erie as homes [...]

We hope for you the coming year is nothing but a breeze,
that you weather any flooding, that your good times never freeze.
May your days be never hazy, may you never see the fog,
May your tomatoes grow like crazy, may you spend time on your blog.
May your blogosphere keep checking in for weather, news, and fun,
Because [...]

<–click to enlarge.  We have a chance of a waterspout or two over the Great Lakes over the next couple days.  These “cold air” waterspouts are different from the waterspouts and tornadoes that are associated with thunderstorms.  They form when relatively cold air comes over relatively warm water.  Note in the picture the boat [...]

We had quite a stretch of sunny, warm weather.  Ending Sunday, we officially had 13 dry days in a row.  Including today (Monday) we’ve had 11 days in a row warmer than average (the average low temperature is in the mid 40s now) and 11 consecutive days when the average wind speed has [...]