Cathie Ursu

After a few very cold days, temperatures today should be reaching near normal.  I’m not sure if there was frost here.  I didn’t see any but my in-laws at the cabins said that there was some there, and their son i […]

My picture shows what our sky looks like with the smoke from the western wildfires.  It isn’t expected to affect our temperatures today, however.  Expected highs will be in the upper 70s to near 80 degrees.  Lo […]

It is very chilly this morning and skies are clear, but smoke from the western fires give the appearance of a light layer of clouds.  I turned the furnace on and let it run one cycle just to get the chill out of […]

Yesterday wasn’t a bad day although a bit windy.  We didn’t see much sun but temperatures were quite mild.  Today will be a bit cooler with highs only expected in the mid 60s.  We are starting to see a little co […]

There is rain moving in from the west but so far, it has stayed to our west and north.  Forecasts are calling for it to move into our area later today.  I hope it just misses us entirely.  We don’t need anymore ra […]

After several days of wet, gloomy, chilly weather, today will be more typical for mid September.  Although the temperatures will still be a bit below normal, the sun should make up for it.

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I’m a bit late with this blog today but have been busy all morning.  We’re heading up to the campground tomorrow for the holiday weekend, and will be up there for a week.  I’m hoping that the WiFi is working but i […]

Another line of thunderstorms passed over us late last night leaving us with an additional 0.96″ of rain.  Our total rain amount for the past two days is 2.53″.  It moved quite slowly from the NW to the SE b […]

Thunderstorms began around 1:30 this morning and continued all night.  We had a brief reprieve around 8 AM, but now the rain has started up again.  There was 1.55″ in my gauge at 8 AM, but it has been raining s […]

After a very wet Wednesday morning, the skies cleared by mid afternoon and the heat returned.  We received a total of 0.80″ of rain which was badly needed and the chance for more rain continues through the […]

They said that we would get rain but I didn’t expect what we’re getting.  We’ve been getting moderate to heavy rain since about 4 AM and there is no let-up at this time.  My weather station is showing 0.69″ s […]

Our heat wave continues but there is some relief in sight by this weekend.  Usually we don’t like cold fronts, but they are very welcome this time of year.  As two hurricanes threaten the Gulf Coast of Texas and L […]

We have another hot day with highs expected near 90°.  We have yard work to do and it’s just too hot.  Our local meteorologist mentioned a chance for some pop-up showers or thunderstorms today, but just a sl […]

After two wonderful, comfortable days, we are back into the hot, muggy weather of August.  We haven’t had a good rain for a week now and things are really getting dry.  The lawn has ceased growing which isn’t a b […]

This has been a summer of blistering heat, more so than summers past.  I, personally don’t like it.  But these past few days have been wonderful with highs only in the 70s.    It will be a bit warmer today, then […]

Our time at the campground was nice but it was too hot for me at the start.  The last two days were more comfortable however.  Here at home,  our Wednesday is very cool for mid August but I’m loving it.  The fee […]

We’ll be heading up to our campground in a little while and I will probably not be heard from again until I get back.  Not sure if the WiFi will be working but it’s very unreliable when it does work.  It will be m […]

Yesterday was quite hot and today is about the same.  It’s a bit too warm for my liking but I’ll try to enjoy this last month of summer.  It’s hard to believe that summer is almost over already, and I can’t c […]

Very warm weather has returned once again, and highs today could reach near 90°F this afternoon.  That also brings s slight chance of storms for us, and they are already showing up on radar over Lake Michigan.  At […]