Good morning, Northern Michigan.
This is Cup of Traverse City for the
12/17/2025,
and I'm Mike. And as usual, we're gonna
start with the weather today.
Some some word that I haven't seen in
a long time. Partly
sunny
with temperature
falling to around 29 by 5PM. Yeah. Right
now, it's, something like 34.
So, yeah, it's looking like things are melting
down a little bit,
but, it is gonna cool off below freezing.
Wind will be five to 10 miles per
hour
and from the south.
So that's interesting. Mostly cloudy with a temperature
tonight of
back up to 34
by 4AM.
Breezy with a south wind five to 10
increasing to 20 miles per hour after midnight.
Winds could get as high as 35
in gusts.
And let's see, Thursday drizzle before 1PM, then
rain showers
after 1PM. Highs near 45,
breezy with a south wind 10 to 20,
and gusts as high as 35. Chance of
precipitation
is 90%.
And I usually don't go on to Thursday
night, you know, a day out, but,
rain and snow showers becoming all snow after
10PM,
so watch out for freezing.
That's gonna get sorta ugly, and I don't
know why my phone decided to, talk to
me. Anyway,
the foibles of
podcasting.
One interesting story I ran across. I I
watched it on the news last night, which
I generally don't watch the news, but, this
one caught my ear.
Michigan lawmakers are proposing telehealth
for pets.
And up until this point, the
veterinarians
had to like, except for during COVID,
the,
the veterinarians
had to have hands on the animals,
you know, to do anything
at all
with, you know, veterinary medicine.
And
they've proposed
a a thing
where,
you know, as long as it's the pet's
vet, so, like, my dog, Benny, you know,
he goes to
a particular
veterinarian,
practice here in Traverse City. And
if this law gets passed, I'll be able
to
instead of bringing him in every time for
every little thing,
I'll be able to do a telehealth appointment
with him, you know, kinda like we do
with, you know, with the regular doctors and,
you know, sometimes.
So that'll be interesting.
You know, it'll save some time, save,
a little bit of driving around, and,
hey. You know? We talked yesterday about working
from home. I guess vets could work from
home part time anyway,
doing, telehealth appointments with,
you know, with pets. So what what do
you think of that?
That that, again, like I said, it's a
statewide thing, not not necessarily a Traverse City
thing.
And, yeah, one other thing I I wanna
bring up
is
yeah. And I'm not gonna cover this kind
of stuff
on this
little show that I do every morning,
but there's been a lot
of violent stuff going on. I got this
app on my phone, and let me see
what it's called.
But it's interesting,
but it's a little scary at the same
time.
Yeah.
Crime Radar.
And, you know, it's an AI powered thing,
and it listens to the police scanner, I
guess. And, it it but, man, I'll tell
you, there is some crazy stuff going on
here in Traverse City and, you know, in
the area.
And, you know, I guess that's the same
everywhere when you see it all the time,
you know, where you've got an AI watching
the scanner and then putting out messages.
It is interesting
but a little scary, you know, we've had
an actual murder here,
recently. We've had a few other,
you know, things, and and that usually makes
big news. You know, I had the Walmart
stabbing
incident this summer and,
you know, so, you know,
be careful out there. You know, we're in
a relatively safe place,
but
no place is perfectly safe. So just be
careful out there and drive like a sane
person. We'll catch you tomorrow.