Good morning, Northern Michigan.
This is Cup of Traverse City for
the 12/11/2025.
And as we normally do, we're gonna start
with the weather.
Of
course, today,
50% chance of snow showers.
Mostly cloudy with
a high near 29.
Northwest wind,
five to 10 miles an hour. Tonight, a
30% chance of snow showers mainly before 1AM.
Mostly cloudy with a low around nineteen.
West wind
around five miles per hour becoming south after
midnight. That might mean a little warm up.
I don't know.
And, of course, Friday, a 40% chance of
snow showers mainly after 1PM.
Mostly cloudy with a high near 30. So,
yeah, a little warmer.
Southwest winds five to 10 miles per hour.
And, you know, I was looking at the
radar this morning, and there is a band
of
of,
lake effect snow
that stretches
basically from Northport all the way down to
Ross Common. So it's just a little
north and east of where I'm at in
Traverse City.
I don't know where you're at, but,
yeah, it looks like it, could dump some
snow.
But, so far today,
you know, I plowed yesterday, and,
nothing's
accumulated
since. So that's a good thing.
I'm gonna do a little more plowing today,
but,
just to clean things up. Well, enough about
me.
Let's see. I wanna look at the snowfall.
I like watching these, snowfall numbers for the
season.
According to this, Traverse City had 2.7
inches of snow over the last twenty four
hours. It's probably about right.
The other you know, yesterday
morning, it was, you know, probably
four inches here, but, officially, 2.7.
We've had a whole, 22.8
inches of snow.
Normal for this day,
of the season is 12.4
for the season,
and we're a 184%
over what we normally get.
I was just looking at West Branch. I
know that's a little out of the Northern
Michigan area, but West Branch,
has had 18
inches of snow
and normal is 7.8.
So they're 232%
over
or 232%
of their
seasonal snowfall so far,
and their normal down there is 53 inches,
which I could I could deal with a
53 inch,
snowfall.
I I tell you though, it's a lot
better than last year. I remember last year,
it did not stop snowing
from Thanksgiving all the way to the February.
It was you know, there was a couple
days in there, but for the most part,
every day, we had measurable snow and, you
you know that kind of what I remember
from, the seventies and eighties.
But,
you know,
I don't know. We're obsessed with weather around
here
this time of year, and, of course, we'll
have some some other things to talk about,
when the weather's not crazy
or normal.
I guess it's normal.
At first, I was like, I'm already tired
of it, and,
now I'm kinda getting into it and getting
used to it. So
I don't I don't mind. I'd rather be
here
in the snow than someplace busy.
So anyhoo,
and I almost said my keyword there, but
I'm not going to.
Traverse City Light and Power is thinking about
building a campus
up on Cedar Run Road.
They had a
field up there. It's about
what did it say here? 50 acres of
land along Cedar Run Road kinda on the
side hill there,
as you're going up. And
what they use that for
back in the day is when they had
that coal fired plant, right down on the
Bay Shore.
They would, dump the ash
on that field. That's what that field was.
And, now, you know, since they don't have
the coal fired plant anymore, that field is
really greened up and solided up and, you
know, looks pretty cool.
And the TC light and power board and
by the way, TC light and power is
owned by the city of Traverse City. It's
I don't know if that's unique, but it's
a municipal,
entity. And they also do Internet, by the
way, if you're in the lucky areas to
get their fiber Internet,
right here where I'm at. I'm just outside
of their area, but they say they're gonna
expand here. Kinda look forward to that. But,
anyway, they they wanna build a $40,000,000
campus,
out there on Cedar Run Road, which will
be
interesting because, you know, they'll they'll do some,
you know, a sustainable
power there, and they're gonna do, like, a
little natural area.
It sounds pretty ambitious. I don't know if
they're actually gonna do it, but, that's
what they're thinking about. And we were going
a little long today. That's alright.
But, yeah, it'd be nice for them to
put that land to use. They were either
gonna do that or sell it. It'd be
a great spot for,
for some some rich person's house
or, you know, a housing development of some
sort. But, you know, right now it's just
an open field where they dumped coal ash
for many, many, many years.
So and with that, we'll call this a
day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.