The California wildlife has forced mass evacuations and fire crews attempt to control the spread. As high as 100mph winds have been recorded and are supposed to drop to 40mph in time. Fire fighters are simply trying to stop the spread. Controlling is all they can do for now.

20% chance on 1" or more.of snow by Monday....this is unreal

GRAND RAPIDS CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 7, 2025 The official H/L yesterday at GRR was 28/21 there was a trace of snowfall. The day started with 1” on the ground. The highest wind gust was 24 MPH out of the W. There was 4% of possible sunshine. For today the average H/L is 21/20 the record high of 59 was in 1965 the coldest high of 9 was in 1942 the record low of -13 was in 1988 the warmest low of 40 was in 2008 the wettest was 0.74” in 1937 the most snow of 5.2” was in 2012 the most on the ground was 20” in 1999. We now have 7 days of January in the record books and the mean so far is 23.3 that is a departure of -2.9° the high so far this month is 35 on the 1st the lowest 14 on the 4th and 5th there has been officially 4.8” of snowfall that is a departure of -.3” there has been 0.26” of total precipitation that is a departure of -0.36”

Part of me thinks this could be a miss to begin with but we end up seeing something better a little later in January or early February.