Category Archives: Lake Michigan

Vol XV # 342 – Blue Sky and Puffy White Clouds

Still a little nippy, but a blue sky and puffy white clouds make that nippy feel not bad at all. This is especially true when the wind is one mile per hour out of the southwest.  The icy and hard crested snow is melting away making it a little easier to navigate the rough terrain. Total ice cover on the entire… Read more »

Vol XV # 341 – The Land of Delight

It was obvious this morning that today was going to be a great one.  The sky was the messenger and indeed it is a great day.  Looking back to 2003 on this date it was -19 degrees, 2009 it was -4 degrees and 159 total inches of snow, in 2012 17 inches of heavy wet snow fell and the next three days… Read more »

Vol XV # 340 – It’s Going to Be a Nice Day

Our first stop in the morning is Fishtown and next… Van’s Beach.  This is the reason you see the picture above so often.  We started out our day with a dark cloudy sky and occasional flurries.  Looking at the horizon to the west, there is some clearing.    This afternoon patches of blue started to show through and it looks like it… Read more »

Vol XV # 339 – No Blowing, Just Snowing

Looking at the above pictures of South Beach is significant because I haven’t had access to the shoreline due to the height of the wall since early winter.  With the lack of snow on the beach there has been a lot of traffic including the rock collectors and dog walkers.  But I discovered this morning, stairs created by all the… Read more »

Vol XV # 336 – There Is JOY in Fishtown

How nice it was to awaken to clear skies and rising temperatures.  It lasted the morning and by early afternoon… mostly cloudy.  The wind is still a major factor, but a impending storm with prospects of 22 inches of new has been shelved, at least for the moment. I missed the JOY being returned to Fishtown as I drove to… Read more »

Vol XV # 335 – Big Blue’s Island Alter

Overnight Big Blue throttled down a whole bunch of mph’s.  People who come down here to the shoreline often pause for a minute or two facing the islands and look like they are saying a few words before heading south. Below a group of ice boaters preparing for a great day on probably the best ice conditions in years.       … Read more »

Vol XV # 334 – Big Blow, But No Snow

No snow at get-up time, just a lot of wind gusting to over 30.  We live downhill to the western breezes and hear the roar but don’t feel the full force of it as it goes high over our heads.  At the shoreline is another story.  It’s difficult at times for me to stay on my feet, especially when I’m taking a… Read more »

Vol XV # 333 – Sunrise Over the Old Boathouse

So far the nasty weather hasn’t reached us.  The “Dark Sky” app on my iPhone says light snow starting around midnight with accumulation of less than an inch.  I have found this app far more accurate than the TV weather persons.  At the moment, radar shows much of the southern parts of the state getting hammered.         

Vol XV #332 – A Nice Day In Spite of it Getting Cloudy

A nice quiet morning with a lot of blue in the sky and hardly a ripple on Big Blue.  A lot of conversation and speculation about a weather system sweeping from the Southwest with heavy wet snow tomorrow night.  They think it will hit the southeastern upper half of the lower peninsula, another model suggests that it will hit the… Read more »