jaster220

Why'd I have to peek!?!

Had 21 degrees Saturday morning, then 76 degrees Monday afternoon. Just a slight roller-coaster ride this spring. Now under the TOR Watch which in and of itself must be fairly rare up here. Strong storms overnight ruined my rest but the stellar sunshine and perfect evening conditions made up for it. Just finished my 4th walk of the day and already had a first mini T-shower here. Looks loud again tonight not to mention wet. The worst flooding's been further north. Hey! We've finally (6 wks later) joined the early spring bash with green-up even the work office has green grass as of today. Ofc, there's still a small plow pile at the end of our street here at home, and much larger ones at work, lol. Good luck to all you severe fans following this repeating action.

Had 21 degrees at home this morning. So I let the sun do its thing and drove about 40 miles south to find a dry course to play a round of golf. By late morning it was simply fantastic and very good therapy. One whole day of wall to wall sunshine felt like 3 days worth its been so scarce.

Extreme 8 and 1 would be cold in winter but what is it in spring??

Good because it hasn't started out well up here at all - 3rd day this week seeing snow covered ground! I thought April was the month we'd turn a corner but that corner's still white. Nothing like snow on the x-way in April. Heard that Marshall hasn't even had plow piles since February

Wow! Awesome shots - thanks for sharing. Nice to see there remains a little wild west like you see in older films.

Glad to report 39F and RAIN here attm despite what the confused radar loop is showing. Still, one can plainly see yet another storm track that favors Mid-Michigan with a nice swath of qpf. Couldn't "buy" this track the last two winters but here we are now that the cold season pattern has retreated. So frustrating.

Downstate May was always the heavy cutting (wet) month but a first cut in later April wasn't unusual. At my old place in the forested area outside of Traverse, first cut in the shaded back yard didn't happen until JUNE. 1992 it was more like August (SMH)

37 and o'cast up here in Grayling. Grid calling for 52 and sunshine but idk? This is more like it:

Hoping that blob of radar snow was either virga or just a melting grass-topper (not home to measure so prolly won't be in my records). Speaking of, I see APX's two climo sites that best parallel Harrison are reporting the same ~116% of avg that I have. Makes me feel good that I'm tracking accurately. West Branch being closer to my avg than H.L. it is seen that typically they'd avg just 1.9" additional for the season from this point forward. With that in mind I feel we will fall a bit short of JB's (WxBell's) call for 125% of normal. P'sure a lot of areas further south and or SW have not come close actually.

Snow shield moving in...again Already had back-2-back days this week with snow covered ground.

As in Van Buren county? That's no where near yby, right?

Ridge east ridge west - doesn't seem to matter much for mby. Stuck in left-over winter. Saw 20F on my home thermometer overnight and a whopping 28F now at lunch time. Glad I didn't put my winter jacket away

The comparison with 2012 showed how that bounced back-n-forth between AN/MAN and N or BN. Once we finally lose the influence of mega-snowpack in Yooperland and S Canada, this one may do similar. Have quite a wait ahead unfortunately.

That last part pretty much sums up NMI lately