Cathie Ursu


  • Harry, that’s a pretty dramatic lighthouse picture. Your weather looks about as bad as ours.

  • This will be our final trip to camp for the season and as usual, I hate to see it end.  Tomorrow has rain in the forecast for both here at home and Indian River.  I hope that it isn’t raining when we get t […]

  • This is like our sixth in a row.  Our highs have been in the low to mid 80s and that makes for very uncomfortable days.  I’m really ready for it to cool off.   Next week should see more seasonable weather but wit […]

  • We did have a little fog early but it dissipated quickly when the sun came up.  I’m afraid that our warm days are coming to an end as the forecast for next week doesn’t seem that promising.  We know that it c […]

  • This is getting to be a habit.  Once again our visibility early this morning was near zero miles in some places.  I’m glad that I didn’t have to go anywhere early.  Our skies now have cleared and temps are wa […]

  • We woke to visibility at less than quarter of a mile this morning.  This has been common over the past three days.  Yesterday was cloudy most of the day and I’m hoping to see more sun today.  We are starting to se […]

  • Our weather is wonderful and I hope it continues through the remainder of the month.  Hurricane Florence is expected to make landfall today and my prayers go out for those in it’s path.  The amount of rain that t […]

  • Our morning began with visibility close to zero, but now that the sun is up, it seems to be dissipating.  Today should be the beginning of a significant warm-up for us with highs expected in the mid 70s.  H […]

  • With the eastern seaboard bracing for Hurricane Florence, we are expected to be spared from this storm, even though it appears to be heading right for us.  One local meteorologist  said that strong high pressure w […]

  • I won’t complain about the temperatures but I really wish that we’d have more sun.  It was in the forecast for yesterday afternoon but it didn’t happen.  Maybe today.  At least we can now go outdoors  now wit […]

  • What a difference a few days makes.  Today feels like a day in late September or early October but that’s okay.  We haven’t even reached 70°F today and it’s possible that we won’t.  From what I’ve heard, these coo […]

  • The first week of September hasn’t been kind to Michigan as many lines of storms moved through bringing damaging winds and tornadoes to the state over a 5 day period.  Fortunately, we didn’t get any here but […]

  • Today should be the last of this oppressive weather.  A cold front will move through with more storms expected, then some decent weather will be a welcome relief.   We should see highs only in the 70s for the re […]

  • Yesterday brought more heavy rain to the same areas that were affected by Tuesday’s storms.  We sat out last night watching the lightning as it passed to our  northwest.  We did receive a little rain ov […]

    • Hi Cathie! Great post. Hope you had a great labor day. I noticed in the title line for this post the last word says “Michigag” instead of “Michigan”. You might want to fix that up. Just noticed it going through all the posts the past few days. Thanks for keeping us up on the latest weather updates in the Durand MI area. Kevin

  • Yesterday was quite tranquil until late afternoon.  We then began to see storms develop with even a tornado warning in the Jackson area.  I haven’t heard of any damage or actual tornadoes however.  We had a co […]

  • I found out that the F2 tornado was just north east of West Branch. It wasn’t Lapeer.

  • Cathie Ursu wrote a new post on the site Mid Michigan Weather 8 years ago

    Thousands are still without power in northern lower Michigan after severe storms moved through the state on Tuesday night.  At least 4 tornadoes have been confirmed and much straight line wind damage in the […]

    • Thanks for the great report Cathie. I dug up some more information on the 4 confirmed tornadoes from the Gaylord MI NWS website. I didn’t see an F2 tornado in this report – 2 F0 and 2 F1 tornadoes and they didn’t use Lapeer that I could see. But they mentioned the same counties you did. Perhaps the F2 tornado you reported from Lapeer was evaluated for strength under further review after this NWS report, found at the following NWS website:
      https://www.weather.gov/apx/severe-2018Aug28

    • Hi again Cathie. I double checked the location of Lapeer and found it considerably south of the Gaylord MI forecast office area of responsibility (AOR). It showed up in Google Maps east of Flint and within the Detroit/Pontiac NWS forecast office AOR. So I went to their page and unfortunately they apparently did not go out to Lapeer that I could see and check out this tornado and issue a report like the Gaylord office did. The NWS office out of Detroit/Pontiac does have a limited storm report for August 28, and it is at this website:
      https://www.weather.gov/dtx/svrwx180828

    • I found out that the F2 tornado was just north east of West Branch. It wasn’t Lapeer.

      • Thanks Cathie. Makes more sense. I found West Branch on my Large Print Road Atlas. Looks like it is about 20-30 miles SE of Gaylord off of I-75. I just love travel and following routes with good maps. I was always the navigator on family trips while growing up.

  • Cathie Ursu wrote a new post on the site Mid Michigan Weather 8 years ago

    Last night was very stormy in Michigan with many cleaning up the damage this morning.  Fortunately, all we got was heavy rain and a lot of thunder.  The central regions of the state seem to have the most d […]

  • Cathie Ursu wrote a new post on the site Mid Michigan Weather 8 years ago

    Being outdoors today is very uncomfortable.  If not for the breeze, it would be unbearable, at least for me.  We have had mostly cloudy skies so far but no rain.  We did receive 0.19 in yesterday morning in th […]

  • Cathie Ursu wrote a new post on the site Mid Michigan Weather 8 years ago

    I woke to see a large rain cell on radar approaching my area and my first thought was to get the dogs out before it started raining.  I’m glad that I did because it has been raining ever since; and it looks like […]

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