May 28, 2013, Tornadic Supercell by Grand Ledge, Michigan
Tornado season is now long past, and the sting of missing great storms either through bad targeting or having to head home one and two days before two major events has eased. Maybe next year will be...
View ArticleJazz Jams in Grand Rapids
Something is happening with jazz in Grand Rapids. Overnight, it seems, the art form which hitherto has garnered lots of respect but little support is coming into its own in this area. People are...
View ArticleWaterspout Season Opens Today on Lake Michigan
When I saw the clouds this afternoon, I couldn’t help but wonder. Lisa and I were catching a late lunch–or an early dinner, take your pick–at the Fire Rock Grille, and I was staring out the window...
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September Gilds the Fenlands
Upton Road Fen in northern Barry County, Michigan. Three miles south of Middleville, Michigan, lies Upton Road Fen. That is the name I have given the place for convenience to provide some sense of...
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Winter Solstice 2013: Tornadoes (or Not) in Dixie Alley and Ice Storms North...
It has finally arrived: Winter. Astronomical winter, that is. Meteorological winter has already been with us for three weeks, beginning December 1, and in my book, that is the more climatologically...
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The Day Before Groundhog Day: Yet Another Winter Storm–and More on the Way
Today is February 1, and let’s just say it: This winter is getting reeeaaaally old. Incursion after incursion of Arctic air. Snow, snow, snow. Cold, cold, cold–and I do mean cold. After Monday and...
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July 6, 2014, Cutlerville Tornado
Tornado damage southwest of Division and 54th St. It is a weird feeling when a tornado strikes the neighborhood where you used to live, particularly when you weren’t expecting tornadoes at all that...
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August Tornado in Macomb: A Lake Breeze Landspout
On Wednesday afternoon, August 20, 2014, a small tornado spun up beneath a seemingly garden-variety summer thunderstorm and did EF0 damage in Lennox Township on the eastern side of the state. I first...
View ArticleThoughts on the I-94 Pileup near Kalamazoo
By now, the whole nation has viewed a blizzard of video clips of the massive and deadly 193-car/truck pileup on I-94 in Galesburg, Michigan, between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek. The incident occurred...
View ArticleWhen the Apartment Shakes: The May 2, 2015, Michigan Earthquake
About twenty minutes after noon yesterday, as I was sitting in my couch, unperturbed as a turtle on tranquilizers, suddenly my apartment began to shake and rattle, and an indescribable sound filled my...
View ArticleStorms and Jazz: A Late Summer Update for 2015
A few months have elapsed since my last post, which covered the Great Galesburg Earthquake.* I’ve been quite busy with book editing and copywriting and with a move in June from Caledonia to Hastings....
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September Gilds the Fenlands
Upton Road Fen in northern Barry County, Michigan. Three miles south of Middleville, Michigan, lies Upton Road Fen. That is the name I have given the place for convenience to provide some sense of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Winter Solstice 2013: Tornadoes (or Not) in Dixie Alley and Ice Storms North...
It has finally arrived: Winter. Astronomical winter, that is. Meteorological winter has already been with us for three weeks, beginning December 1, and in my book, that is the more climatologically...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Day Before Groundhog Day: Yet Another Winter Storm–and More on the Way
Today is February 1, and let’s just say it: This winter is getting reeeaaaally old. Incursion after incursion of Arctic air. Snow, snow, snow. Cold, cold, cold–and I do mean cold. After Monday and...
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July 6, 2014, Cutlerville Tornado
Tornado damage southwest of Division and 54th St. It is a weird feeling when a tornado strikes the neighborhood where you used to live, particularly when you weren’t expecting tornadoes at all that...
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August Tornado in Macomb: A Lake Breeze Landspout
On Wednesday afternoon, August 20, 2014, a small tornado spun up beneath a seemingly garden-variety summer thunderstorm and did EF0 damage in Lennox Township on the eastern side of the state. I first...
View ArticleThoughts on the I-94 Pileup near Kalamazoo
By now, the whole nation has viewed a blizzard of video clips of the massive and deadly 193-car/truck pileup on I-94 in Galesburg, Michigan, between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek. The incident occurred...
View ArticleWhen the Apartment Shakes: The May 2, 2015, Michigan Earthquake
About twenty minutes after noon yesterday, as I was sitting in my couch, unperturbed as a turtle on tranquilizers, suddenly my apartment began to shake and rattle, and an indescribable sound filled my...
View ArticleStorms and Jazz: A Late Summer Update for 2015
A few months have elapsed since my last post, which covered the Great Galesburg Earthquake.* I’ve been quite busy with book editing and copywriting and with a move in June from Caledonia to Hastings....
View ArticleStormhorn.com Returns: A Modest But Happy Summary of The Year’s Storm Chases
Wow! More than a year has passed since I’ve posted in this blog. So much has happened, some of which amounts to a veritable sea change in my life. But I’m not going to get into that here. Relevant for...
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