It's 35 degrees under sunny skies at 3:30 PM at Leelanau Coffee Roasting in Glen Arbor. The record high for a February 8th was 52 degrees in 1925Â with the low of -18 set in 1904. The forecast for today calls for sunny skies with highs in the 30s. For Thursday, expect sunny skies and upper 30s. Expect snow and windy conditions on Friday with temps in the 20s. The early weekend outlook is for snow and teens Saturday and light snow and 20s on Sunday.
This week's photo is A Little Sunrise Ice Magic by Ken Scott. See it bigger and check out Ken's snow slideshow!
Coming Events
Empire Winterfest (Feb 11), Traverse City Winter Microbrew Festival (Feb 11), Glen Arbor Winterfest (Feb 18),   Sleeping Bear Snowshoe Hikes (Every Saturday). Check the Leelanau Calendar. Check the Leelanau Calendar! You can click that link to add your Leelanau & Traverse City events to the calendar for FREE! Not only will they be distributed with our weekly newsletter, but they may be a featured story on Leelanau.com!
Week's Weather & Weather Resources
Click for the Leelanau News Archive from February 2011Â and also the School Closings & Delays from 9&10 News.
Please also check the less pessimistic Weather.com forecast)
Weather Underground is just about as old as the internet (the first net weather service) and is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sometimes the above banner will show personal weather system data from Leelanau Coffee in Glen Arbor, sometimes from Leland and sometimes it comes from a vineyard on Old Mission (it tells you which in the top left of the page it links to).
Buoy 45002 in Lake Michigan is located halfway between North Manitou Island and Washington Island in Lake Michigan. It provides wind and wave data. Also check out Michigan Sea Grant Coastwatch for water temps (the "early evening" images in their archive will give you a better idea of actual temps during peaks swimming hours ... in seasons where you might actually want to swim!).
This photo of the Northern Lights over Fishtown was taken by Ken Scott in October of 2011. Today on Absolute Michigan we posted a feature about a solar flare that may bring northern lights to Leelanau's skies tonight (and potentially over the next few days):
NASA's Space Weather site is the place to go for Aurora Borealis forecasting as they help make sense of the data the space agency receives about solar flares and their impact on earth's atmosphere. Yesterday they gave Northern Lights watchers a lot of hope with this news:
This morning, Jan. 23rd around 0359 UT, big sunspot 1402 erupted, producing a long-duration M9-class solar flare. The explosion's M9-ranking puts it on the threshold of being an X-flare, the most powerful kind. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the flare's extreme ultraviolet flash (shown right or in short movie right here)
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft detected a CME rapidly emerging from the blast site: movie. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab say the leading edge of the CME will reach Earth on Jan. 24 at 14:18UT (+/- 7 hours).
That means it's hitting the Earth 11 AM - 6 PM EST, but this level of intensity makes the Northern Lights a real possibility for the next couple of days so definitely LOOK UP tonight and tomorrow if there's any break in the clouds! If the northern lights hit, our Northern Lights Log will light up with reports. You can also learn a lot more about the Northern Lights at Michigan in Pictures and also at aurora borealis on Leelanau.com!
Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January’s full Moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule. Some called it the Full Snow Moon, but most tribes applied that name to the next Moon.
~Old Farmer’s Almanac
Speaking of wolves and January, last month the US Fish & Wildlife Service removed wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the federal endangered species list. Wolves are now managed by states in the region and the ruling takes effect on Friday, January, 2012. Read the release from the Michigan DNR about wolf de-listing.
Photo credit: Moon over Lake Leelanau by Missy Luick (a February full moon...)
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Cherry Blossoms, photo by leelanau2010.
It's been a slow, cold spring but I'm happy to report that the answer is "Right now!"
Sweet cherry blossoms are out all over and the tart cherry blossoms will be along in a few days. That means this weekend will be the best one for photos.
David took this shot near Northport. Check it out background big, on his map or in his Cherry Blossoms slideshow.
Enjoy more blossoms and more Spring Wallpaper on Michigan in Pictures!
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Great Indoor Folk Festival ~ Feb 12, 2012
