Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is Cup of
Traverse City for the 12/10/2025.
I'm Mike, and I have my coffee in
hand. Well, truth be told, I already had
a whole cup. Now I got a second
one, so we're good.
Anyway, today
in the weather,
what is the actual temperature right now? It's
28 degrees, so you know, sort of mild
for winter.
You know I predicted that all this stuff
was gonna melt off one more time. Well,
I think I'm wrong.
Anyway,
today a 50% chance of snow showers, patchy
blowing snow between 1PM 3PM.
They're pretty exact today.
Mostly cloudy with a temperature falling to around
25 by 5PM.
Blustery with a north wind of 10 to
20 miles per hour with gust as high
as 35. Yeah. That does sound blustery.
Tonight's snow showers likely mostly cloudy with a
steady temperature around 24 northwest wind, 10 to
15 miles per hour with gusts as high
as 35.
And, well yeah. And tomorrow,
30%
chance of snow showers. Hey. We're getting a
little bit less.
I don't know. It's snow snow. So every
every line on the extended forecast says snow.
And I guess that's
apropos for this time of year. But,
anyway, I'm I'm already sort of tired of
it, but that's alright.
So let's see. The main thing in the
news that caught my eye is the Blue
Angels have
decided that they are gonna return to the
National Cherry Festival in 2027,
not next year, the year after.
Next year they're gonna have the f sixteen,
Viper demo team amongst other airshow acts at
the Cherry Festival Air Show.
They usually put together a pretty good show
whether the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds
are here or
not. Kinda curious the Thunderbirds
have been missing for a little bit. As
you know, I'm an aviation
enthusiast and a pilot.
So,
you know, I I take great,
pleasure in watching
things like that. Plus, I was in the
air force and worked on fighter jets.
So, yeah,
there there there's that.
But,
anyway, so
that show will like I said, in 2027,
we'll have the Blue Angels again. So that's
good. They're they've been coming here since 1988.
And, you know,
the last year, there was a bit of
a controversy
with the airport
and and all that, but I think they've
got that worked out, hopefully.
And, we'll continue to have the, the festival
air show. It's kinda neat how they do
it.
They,
usually come in a few days early, you
know, all the acts, and, they do a
practice show on Friday, and then they do
a full show on Saturday and Sunday. So
you got lots of opportunities
to watch the air show, and
one of the unique things is
that they do it over water.
Usually over it's over West Bay, and they
set up
airshow box in the bay. And it usually
has some coast guard ships and coast guard
auxiliary
boats
and whatnot,
that
cordon off the the box so, you know,
you can launch your boat and go out
watch the, airshow
from the water, which I may do that
this year, this coming up year. I haven't
done that in many years.
It was, that was a lot of fun.
Thing with that is you got to put
your boat in really early
to get a get a spot at any
of the boat launches on West Bay.
But, you know, maybe I'll be adventurous, put
it in on East Bay and, you know,
early in the morning when it's calm, hopefully,
and go around the peninsula. But,
yeah. I've I've done it on Center Road
Launch or not Center Road, Bowers Harbor Launch.
And if you get there really early, you
can get a parking spot for your boat
and trailer.
But, anyway, that's all summertime stuff. We're dealing
here with winter.
And one tip,
I've noticed a lot of people driving around
that with
very little
snow removal on their windows.
Please please please please clear your windows.
Watched a guy drive by just a little
bit ago as I had to shovel my
way into the
studio this morning. If you don't know, my
studio is a 10 by 10 shed in
my backyard,
and
I had to shovel my way from the
back door to the, office this morning and,
you know, out to the driveway.
But as I was shoveling, I looked and,
there was a a guy that I it
looks like he
cleaned off, like,
half of his windshield and none of the
side windows or the back window, and he's
driving down the road.
Yeah. Please please clear your windows. And if
you have four wheel drive that you can
switch from four to two,
make sure you're in four wheel drive whenever
the roads are covered. Yes. It'll make you
go faster, but also know that it will
not make you stop faster.
Anyway, I had a whole episode on winter
driving over at mikedell.com,
Mike Dell's world
show that I do. So go over and
listen to that. I have lots of, winter
driving tips because I've done it a lot.
And so if you're in Traverse City, you
probably have too. So, anyway, we'll catch you
tomorrow.