Good morning, Northern Michigan.
And a belated good morning it is.
Running a little behind this morning.
So it's a little little later than normal,
but, hey. I'm here.
And this is Cup of Traverse City. I'm
Mike. And, of course, we're gonna talk about
the weather or,
the bomb cyclone.
Yeah. I know there's a definition for that,
but we've never heard that much on the
news
until the last couple of years. I I
think they just wanna make it sound worse
than it is. This looks like just a
typical
Northern Michigan winter storm.
But, anyway,
let's get on with the weather. Of course,
snow showers today.
Snow could be heavy at times. Widespread blowing
snow mainly before 4PM. Steady temperature around 23
blustery
with a northwest wind around 25 miles per
hour and the gust as high as 55
miles an hour.
Chance of precipitation
is a 100%.
Total daytime accumulation
around six inches, and that's, I think, specifically
for Traverse City, probably
worse or better elsewhere.
Snow showers likely mainly before 1AM
tonight. Patchy blowing snow
before 4AM.
Cloudy with a low around eighteen. Blustery with
a northwest wind
15 to 20 miles an hour with gust
as high as 70%
chance of new snow accumulation
of around an inch. So it looks like
it'll be over this afternoon, at least the
bad part of it, but we'll see.
Tomorrow, snow showers mainly after 4PM, so I
guess we got another one coming. High near
23. Northwest wind 10 to 15 miles an
hour with gust 25.
I think that's gonna be more
lake effect. And and, you know, of course,
if you're in the, lake effect snow belt
areas,
expect more. That's usually how that works.
But, yeah, I I don't know. You know,
like I said, with
with these weather terms, I know for a
while, the weather channel was naming winter storms
kinda like hurricanes, but there are a lot
different phenomenon than hurricanes.
A bomb cyclone. What was the other one?
Polar vortex.
That's another term we really didn't hear much
about, at least in
the media. I'm sure, you know, meteorologists
might be using those terms, but,
yeah, I don't know. Are are we sensationalizing
click baiting,
by calling it a bomb cyclone
instead of just a normal
winter storm?
Who knows?
But,
interesting anyway.
You know, yesterday,
it rained all day.
Of course, I was down in Grand Haven
and drove home yesterday. Glad we came home
yesterday instead of today.
And, hey, since we're keeping score here,
let's see. Traverse City, so far this season,
has had 35 inches of snow. Normal to
date's 28.5,
so we're only a 123%
above normal.
And
let's see. Let's pick out another one here.
Let's see Houghton Lake. Houghton Lake,
has had 28.5,
inches so far. Normal to date's 21.7.
They're a 131%
over normal.
And,
yeah. So
snowfall is is definitely less than last year
or at least timed better. So
I'm not complaining whatsoever.
I haven't had to plow too much this
year.
I did have to shovel my way out
to the studio this morning,
and,
that's been a couple hours since I've been
out here. And
there's about an inch and a half fallen
since then. So, yeah, somebody was saying it
was an inch an hour. But, anyway, I
guess we'll we'll talk about the weather all
day today, and then, tomorrow, I'll come up
with some, better story to
add to it rather than the weather. And,
by the way, I think most of the
schools around here are closed too, but you
probably already know that by now. Again, sorry
for being late, but, just been a crazy
Monday.
Catch me tomorrow.