Good morning, Northern Michigan, and happy New Year's
Eve.
This is Mike, and this is Cup of
Traverse City for New Year's Eve twenty twenty
five,
and tomorrow will be 2026.
Wow. The year flew by.
Anyway, let's start with the weather.
Snow showers today,
high near 23. Southwest wind five to 15,
becoming northwest
this afternoon,
and winds could gust as high as 30.
Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime accumulation
around an inch is possible. Again, your mileage
may vary.
And tonight, while, the amateurs are out drinking
and partying,
snow showers likely mainly
before 1AM.
Mostly cloudy with a low around twelve. Wind
chill
is gonna be around minus one. Wow.
With gusts as high as 35 miles an
hour, chance precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation
less than one half of an inch possible.
And New Year's Day, 40% chance of snow
showers mainly after 1PM, mostly cloudy with a
high near nineteen.
Wind chill values as low as zero.
Anyway, west wind,
10 to 15 miles an hour with gusts
up to 25. So, you know, blustery, you
know, kind of the way to bring in
the new year.
And speaking of bringing in the new year,
those of you that are familiar with Traverse
City, we have our own ball drop here
in Traverse City similar to the one in
New York, but, obviously, a little smaller.
Yeah. Just a little.
And so downtown Traverse City does a thing
called the
cherry tea
ball drop,
and it's been going on for a while.
And what they do is,
you know, is a fundraiser
for a charity that they pick out or
a nonprofit
or something like that. And this year,
the,
beneficiary
is going to be,
NorthEd
Foundation,
I think.
Their website's a little confusing.
Yeah. No. That's right.
That's the 2025
beneficiary.
Anyway,
I'll put the link to the website there
in the show notes over at cupoftraverscity.com.
But, yeah, you have Elmer's
out there with a,
you know, big crane, and they drop a
lighted cherry,
you know, get it for cherry capital. And,
this is from the festival foundation,
but I guess it's a really good time.
I've never gone to it. You know, usually
on New Year's Eve, I try to stay
home or whatever. We're gonna have a few
friends over tonight. Nothing
crazy
and not gonna, you know, not not gonna
be out there with all the amateurs,
out there possibly drinking and driving. Let's hope
people don't do that. So please don't do
that. You know, get a get a ride,
you know,
a designated
driver.
But, yeah. It should be, okay, and it
looks like it's gonna be snowing a little
bit. It's definitely gonna be cold, but that's
kinda
normal for
this time of year, the end of the
year.
In 2025,
just a little reflection in the podcast world
here.
I know you're not probably interested in podcasting,
but,
personally, I I did complete
NAPOD promo over at Mike Dell's World at
mike dell dot com
and did,
thirty days and 30 episodes. A lot of
Traverse City history and and all that, in
the month. So if you're interested in that
kind of stuff, go check that out. They're
longer form
shows than this is.
And one more podcasting
note here.
I changed a little bit, just a tiny
little change in the way I'm doing the
audio.
So please let me know if it sounds
better, worse, the same.
You can shoot me an email at mike@mikedell.com,
or
you can
hit me up on social. I'm on x
and
Facebook.
So,
you just let let me know if the
audio sounds
better, worse, same, should be the same. At
least that's my hope, but I did do
a slight configuration
change here.
And I do plan on,
talking talking tomorrow.
So I'm not taking tomorrow off, for this
podcast. So
if you have any topics you want me
to cover, that's also, you know, just a
news story or something, that that would be
great. Same email, mike@mikedell.com.
You can find all the stuff over at
cupoftravorcity.com,
and I will catch you in the new
year.