Winter Summary from December 2023 to February 2024
Published 2024-03-06
Winter Summary for the December to 2023 to February 2024 season
High pressure will bring fair and cool weather tonight and Saturday. Rain showers arrive Sunday as abundant moisture from the Gulf of Mexico streams into Lower Michigan. Rain will remain in the forecast through Tuesday before fair weather returns for mid to late next week. Read More >
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Winter Summary for the December to 2023 to February 2024 season
Here is a discussion and wrap up of the winter season. We will discuss how the seasonal forecast did and go over the temperature, precipitation, snowfall and sunshine we had this past winter.
Here is a review of the Climate for Grand Rapids Michigan and Southwest Michigan for 2022. It includes an Annual, seasonal and monthly Summaries as well as sunshine minutes for Grand Rapids MI
This is the NWS downscaled forecast for the winter of 2022 to 2023
This is the forecast for temperature, precipitation and snowfall for period from October to December 2022
As we enter the Autumn season we will have a brief respite of cooler weather with a warmer period in the next 6 to 10 days. Below is a series of images and links from the Climate Predictions Center summizing the trends. After that 6 to 10 day period we wil return to a regularly scheduled fall of temperatures in a March towards winter.Â
A line of severe thunderstorms produced widespread power outages and areas of wind damage to trees and some structures across southern Lower Michigan on August 29, 2022.
Here is a look at the drought status and precipitation for Michigan. For more information go to https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Drought/
CPC outlook for July and July through September
Here is a look back at the climatology and of the occurrences of severe weather through southwest Michigan.
Summer forecast for Southwest Michigan
Here are maps created by the Midwest Regional Climate Center using NOAA Climate sites. The below images show the Median Dates of the 28F and 32F freezes. It also shows the Latest Dates for 28F and 32F. This data is based on the 30 year climatology from 1990-91 to 2019-20
This summarizes the temperature, snowfall and precipitation anomalies for the winter of 2021 to 2022.
A surface low tracked across the southern 1/3 of Lower Michigan bringing 4 to 6 inches of snow to central Lower Michigan.
The MJO will cause a shift in then Northern Hemisphere by the last week of February that will retrograde the upper wave pattern. That will put Michigan in a warmer than normal weather pattern to end the month of February.
The climate rankings for 2021 over southwest Michigan
This is our National Weather Service Forecast for the winter of 2021 to 2022. This is a detailed look at why we are expecting what we are forecasting.
October finished as one of the warmer Octobers on record. The average maximum, mean and minimum temperatures finished in the top ten at almost all climate sites. It was also a very wet month, with multiple sites being in the top ten of wettest Octobers, including Grand Rapids.
This is the warmest first half of October on Record
October 2021, through the 11th , has featured the warmest average low temperatures on record across the area. The mean for most of these locations is about 15 degrees warmer than normal. The average so far this month is normal for the last week in August.
The median date of the freeze fall freeze for selected cities
This shows the warmest part of the summer at Grand Rapids based on the frequency of the high temperature reaching both 80F and 90F. This uses 127 years of daily high temperature data.
The drought which began early in 2021 intensified by a near record dry spring (10th driest on record for the state of Michigan) was followed by the 10th wettest June on record. In Lower Michigan 10 of our counties had the wettest June on record.
A significant drought had developed over Southwest Michigan during the spring of this year. Then in mid June there were two weeks with periods of widespread heavy rain. This has significantly decreased impact of the drought.
Wind damage event during the afternoon and evening of June 11th 2021
Thunderstorms with 2 3/4 inch hail occurred on the evening of Sunday June 12th 2021
Back door cold front results in flooding in Reed City during the afternoon of Sunday May 23 2021
The new 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals have been released. Take a look!
This contains the latest NCEI climate normals for our seven climate sites plus some background information
The first look at our Southwest Michigan Summer Forecast. Warmer than normal temperatures have a higher probability than does cooler than normal temperatures. Precipitation is expected to be within the normal range.
This winter featured many extremes, from warm and dry stretches to cold and snowy periods.
Here is the National Weather Service Spring forecast for 2021 for Southwest Michigan.
This is the CPC forecast for January.
This is the CPC forecast for the months of January through March 2021 for Southwest Michigan.
La Nina winters tend to have the colder than normal and heavy snowfall events later in the winter.
Take a look at our latest Climate Blog entry for the December forecast update!
Winter Forecast for 2020 to 2021 looking at La Nina and the QBO to help understand some of the factors that will impact this winters weather in Southwest Michigan.
This shows how the climate anomalies were for the month of October 2020 over Southwest Lower Michigan.
The NWS Grand Rapids Climate Blog is a place to find information on long-range forecast information and other climate related items.
On October 22nd, a fall storm brought high winds and large waves to the lakeshore for the second time in the span of a week. Areas from Grand Haven northward were hit the hardest with at least 10 feet of additional dune erosion. Check out our review here:
Summary of the high winds that struck the Grand Rapids and Lake Odessa areas on Wednesday evening.
During the early morning hours of July 20th, 2019, a line of severe storms raced through Lower Michigan downing trees and power lines, leading to around 150,000 customer power outages by sunrise. More more information about these storms, click the link: