Mean annual snowfall: 81 inches lol

Duluth becomes 'climate' haven...

Climate Update for KGRR: 1Q2023

 Climate Update for KGRR: 1Q2023 since 1892

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average temperature, mean:  27.5F.

Average temperature, actual:  32.7F; Anomaly: 19%.

Compare 2012 actual: 37.4F; Anomaly 36%.

January 2023 was the fifth warmest January on record by average temperature.

February was the thirteenth warmest February on record by average temperature.

The March average temperature anomaly was comparatively insignificant at 3.8%.

Heating degree days, mean: 3354.

Heating degree days, actual: 2880; Anomaly: 14%.

Compare 2012: 2505 actual; Anomaly: 25%.

January ranked fifth for fewest HDD in January.

February ranked tenth for fewest HDD in February.

The March heating degree day anomaly was comparatively insignificant at 4.4%. 

Snowfall, mean: 40.8".

Snowfall, actual: 42.5".

March 2023 was the fourth snowiest March on record with 23.3".

Cumulative season to date 100 inches of snow in Buffalo, NY is record-setting, ahead of Nov-Dec 2000 at 95.9 inches

36.9 total inches in November 2022 (3.1 feet). November record is 45.6 inches (3.8 feet).

63.1 inches in December 2022 through the 26th (5.25 feet). December record is 82.7 inches (6.9 feet).

January record is 68.3 inches.

February record is 54.2 inches.

March record is 38.5 inches.

April record is 15 inches.

May record is 7.9 inches.

The mean average season is 85.4 inches, 55 of which come after Dec. 31st.

 

Intelligence plummets in Florida as snow pummels New York

 

Gotta hand it to UPS: 5 degrees F all day yesterday, winds howling, 7.5 inches of new snow, and UPS still delivered the package

 No mail.

 

Half of the top 10 snowiest Decembers in Grand Rapids have occurred since 2007

 The result, no doubt, of the generally wetter conditions in the Great Lakes over the long haul as predicted by slightly cooler Pacific Ocean waters indicated by the Oceanic Nino Index.

We've had 14+ inches so far in Dec 2022 with 2 feet expected in the latest storm, so this December might break into the top 5. 

Winter. It's what's for Christmas.

 

Buffalo, New York gets all the headlines, but Grand Rapids, Michigan has already had its second snowiest November ever

 We've been busy around here with three days in a row of 7+ inches of snow each, and in excess of two feet in five days.

Total November snow is already at 27.3 inches, which beats November 1951 at 26.9.

The snowiest November of all time at KGRR was November 2014 with 31 inches.

It was 75 degrees F here in Grand Rapids on November 10.

We dropped to 18 F last night.

Record November snow in Buffalo was 45.6 inches in November 2000. The second snowiest November was 31.3 inches in November 1976.

BUF is officially at 36.9 inches already through the 19th, also making November 2022 its second snowiest November ever, with ten more days left in the month. 

Its three-day history is 9.4, 5.7, and 21.5 inches yesterday.

It was 79 F in Buffalo on the 5th, and dropped to 23 F in Buffalo last night.

They're going home early due to snow to make babies and cash in on 12-weeks family leave paid for by the taxpayer

Egads, now we're expecting 5 inches of snow in Grand Rapids

Saturday Night: Rain and snow, becoming all snow after 7pm. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 29. North northeast wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of around 5 inches.

Saturday night's forecast overnight into Sunday in Grand Rapids, Michigan is for two inches of snow!

Rain showers before midnight, then rain and snow showers. Low around 32. Northeast wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of around 2 inches.

It's April 12th but snow remains in the forecast for Grand Rapids, Michigan

Laugh of the Day: Snow for Easter

Snow for Christmas

snow for Easter

livin' in Michigan

frosts my keister

It turns out Jeff Flake, easily melted by Donald Trump, really was born in Snowflake, Arizona

NFL boycott: There was more "white" on the field of the Colts-Bills game than in the stands

Story here.

The US winter of 2015 was not severe by any measure, so its unremarkable cold and snow can't be blamed for poor GDP

Snow cover averaged 1.19% below the baseline since 1967 for the first quarter.

For average temperature the first quarter ranked 95th warmest out of 121 years, 5.6% above the baseline.

For minimum temperature it ranked 96th, 6.7% above the baseline.

For heating degree days it ranked 75th, just 2.3% colder than the average. By contrast 1Q2014 was 6.8% colder than the average, and the 18th coldest by this measure since 1895.

For cooling degree days, a measure of uncomfortable warmth, 1Q2015 ranked tied for 12th warmest winter at 40% above the baseline. 1Q2012 was the warmest in the series at 136% above the baseline.

Better to blame the languid GDP on the heat than the cold.

Secretary of State John Kerry who served in Vietnam fined $50 for not shoveling snow at his Boston residence

Story here:

Boston city officials issued a ticket to Kerry’s home for neglecting to shovel his sidewalk on Thursday, according to Citizens Connect, a website run by the city of Boston where residents can upload complaints.

John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, has also been rumored in the past to avoid stopping at four way stop signs in his Jeep, and to avoid paying taxes on his yacht domicile.

One law for me, another for thee. 

November isn't over and already Grand Rapids, Michigan, has more snow than the old record in 1895

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Ann Arbor and Detroit make top 10 snowiest list

View the full list here.

67% Of Lower 48 Covered By Snow, Lake Superior With Record 92% Ice Cover

5 Years Of Uncommon Snows Give London Mayor Boris Johnson An Open Mind

Lord I wish Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, England, were my mayor, my governor, hell, my president for crying out loud.

This guy, trained in the study of classical antiquity, utters more civilization and common sense in one brief column than I've heard in four years from Barack Obama on any subject, let alone from nearly anyone else in this increasingly barbarous republic of ours, if it can still be called a republic. And that's saying a lot because President Obama has been talking non-stop now for four years and hasn't said one damn thing yet, even when the teleprompter is working properly. Where else can you learn about the Maunder minimum, Martinis, the Dalton minimum, William Shakespeare and solar science all wrapped up in a delightful bow about winter snow? I know not where.

Notably, the mayor ends his column with the humility characteristic of a man who one day will doubtless be the leader of many more in England than just the happy inhabitants of London, or at least it can be hoped:

I am speaking only as a layman who observes that there is plenty of snow in our winters these days, and who wonders whether it might be time for government to start taking seriously the possibility — however remote — that [astrophysicist Piers] Corbyn is right. If he is, that will have big implications for agriculture, tourism, transport, aviation policy and the economy as a whole. Of course it still seems a bit nuts to talk of the encroachment of a mini ice age.

But it doesn’t seem as nuts as it did five years ago. I look at the snowy waste outside, and I have an open mind.

And on this quotation, "Sometime too bright the eye of heaven shines", which he makes from Shakespeare's sonnett, in the bleak mid-winter I can live for days as I remind myself that not everything dies forever, least of all the good, the true, and the beautiful:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.