ZRR's Upper Pininsula Weather Blog

Another year without a summer for the UP

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:38:00 GMT

Well I guess 3 hot summers in a row was just too good to be true. I'm talking about 05,06, and 07 of course. With the exception of one week in early June this summer has been well below normal. This morning on my way to work my thermometer measure 37 degrees!! While tomarrow morning is supposed to be about the same. I created some temperature anomaly charts using http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/data/composites/day/http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/data/composites/day/ Noaa's PSD ESRL...
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Cold Great Lakes Pattern Broken Finally

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:29:00 GMT

I stated in my last blog it would be useless to start planting a garden untill at least after the 9th of June. Well the persistant Northwest to north flow aloft and the pool of below normal temps over the eastern half of Canada has all changed. As you might remember the summer of 08 was not very warm with only a hand full of days in the 80's that was because of a similar pattern. So warmth is here to stay for the next two weeks at lest the question is will this patt...
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Global Warming or cooling

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:16:00 GMT

Hello folks I havn't blogged on here in over a yearand my weather station is in complete disrepare, this might have something to do with getting married and gaining a wife step daughter, my own 4 month old baby girl...bussy bussy bussy with lifes changes. However I still love weather and try and study it everyday.It seems to me from looking at the Norhtern Hemisphere sea ice records and record cold U.P. winter of 08-09 that global warming has not only leveled off bu...
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ZRR's Station back up

Sun, 11 May 2008 14:48:00 GMT

Finally got all my instruments up and running, this time located a few miles southeast of my old Iron River station. Its sits at the foothills of Caspian hill at an elevation of 1540 feet.The accuracy should be very good except for wind speed and direction from the west due to the hilly terrain.Also of note there are now two stations in the Iron River area always nice to compare my reading to a nearby station.
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Upper Michigan Upper Low Blues

Sat, 10 May 2008 14:58:00 GMT

Nothing much has changed in the overall weather pattern since my last blog. uggggghh. Things have gotten not at cold obviously with the ever strengthening sun angle, but things continue to stay average to below average.The blocking over the arctic continues unabated. Things will try and warm over the next 5 days but models now agree that a very strong ridge will develop just of the western USA coast and punch into British Columbia. As this happens the jet and storm ...
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