It is extraordinarily rare for climate locations with 100+ year long periods of records to break records day after day after day. ~Jeff Masters, Chief Meteorologist, Weather Underground UPDATE: March 23rd As near as we can tell, we’ve set record high temperatures since last Friday. That’s a full SEVEN DAYS of record temperatures. Michigan-based Weather […]
Here’s a new background for you to help you keep up with the crazy March weather! Just click to download from Flickr. More backgrounds from Leelanau.com! (also see our Backgrounds page)
The majority of our snow comes from lake effect. We don’t usually see that heavy cement-mixer type of snow.” ~ Gaylord-based National Weather Service meteorologist John Boris As Leelanau continues to dig out from a MAJOR winter storm, we thought we would post some of the highlights (or is that low points) of this very […]
This week’s photo was taken by Andy McFarlane – more in the Snow Day Slideshow! Thousands are still out of power according to the Record-Eagle. IPR News Radio has a report on the storm and power outages that says that Consumers Energy still has 35,000 customers without power, including thousands in Leelanau County. In all, […]
In Community Wind Faces Roadblocks, IPR News Radio explains that the village of Northport owns the hill behind its new sewage treatment plant, and a planned wind turbine about half the size of the windmill outside Traverse City will supply half the electricity for the plant. Tom Gallery and more than a dozen other investors formed […]
The Leelanau Enterprise reported that last Tuesday night Leelanau commissioners voted 7-0 to hire Chet Janik as County administrator. He’s the seventh county administrator since the position was established in 1985 and will resign his current position as superintendent at Charlevoix Public Schools. They add that: Janik, who immigrated to Cedar in 1961 with his […]
Ken shot this on Saturday in Omena. Check out his Omena slideshow for more!
“I like to take trips like this, to get out of the rut of ordinary life and test myself. I don’t have a lot of kayaking experience, but I like getting out and seeing how far I can go.” ~Steve Snyder Hello boys and girls, today we have the story of The Very Lucky Kayaker. […]
Ken shot this on Saturday night in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. He says that the brightness of the night sky is a reflection of iso and shutter speed (5 photos @ iso 1600 and 30 second exposures). Click to view larger on black!
This weekend (Feb 18 & 9) is a Michigan free fishing weekend – the perfect time to take to the ice (or open water) and try to land a local lunch! Michigan holds two of these weekends every year, one in February and the other in June. Ken Scott shot this photo and also this […]
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has awarded a nearly $500,000 federal Transportation Enhancement (TE) grant to the Leelanau County Road Commission. The money will be used to pave 6.5 miles of the Leelanau Trail from Lakeview Hills Road to Revold Road, and TART Trails will provide a $200,000 match. “This federal funding helps pay […]
The Leelanau Enterprise reports that in addition to making it a rough winter for those who depend on snow for winter sports, the lack of snow this winter is proving troubling for wine grape growers. They talked with Charlie Edson: Edson, of Bel Lago Vineyards & Winery north of Cedar, has more than 100 grape […]