Good Morning Everyone,
This year I took my vacation to the beautiful Michigan upper peninsula, to
the city of Sault Ste. Marie. This Road Trip saw a little bit of 4 seasons,
from Summer's Heat, to Winter's Snow, As well as spring's storms, and falls
chilliness.
We left Trenton Around 7:30 PM on Wednesday (4/17), We left to Temps in the
middle 80s and high humidites, we ran the a/c for the majority of the trip
up. About 10 miles into the Trip I noticed a large thunderstorm sitting
well off to my NW. After a quick stop for food in Milan, Mo (about 30 miles
away) we turned on WHO-A out of Des Monies to get an update on the weather
up there and sure enough, this nice look storm had prompted a tornado
warning for parts of Shelby and monanoa(sp) county in Western Iowa. for the
next 3 hours from Milan Missouri, through Ottumwa, Fairfield, Washington
and Muscitane(sp) to the quad cities, we tuned into to WHO-A at the top and
bottom of each hour listening to updates on the severe thunderstorm and
tornado warnings to our NW.
The Rest of the Trip was pretty much uneventful while traveling through
IL/IN and most of Michigan; the most eventful thing we heard was the CRS on
the Chicago NWR transmitter going belly up.. nothing like hearing the ID
about five times or so.
about 10am CT, that's 11am ET, we noticed darkening skies to our
northwest.. so I punched up NWR our of West Branch, MI; programming by
NWSFO APX.. Gaylord, MI; as we kept rolling north along
I-75 we were hearing about 60-80mph winds and hail.. so we decided to pull
off the road near the city of fredric, MI; we stopped at a gas station to
wait out the storm, while there we watched the shelf cloud roll in, we saw
several "funnel clouds" the clouds had decent rotation, and dipped down
several times, however, it fell apart before moving out of our view; so i
don't know if it went on to reform or not.. then came the winds, we noted
TONS of flying dust and debris, winds gusted to around 60mph, then the rain
and hail hit, we noted hail to the size of nickles or just a bit bigger..
we left the town and traveled on north to the mackanic(sp) bridge.. were we
picked up a lot of wind.. but nothing too bad..
the next 4 days were chilly and damp.. made me think it was fall again..
We left Sault Ste. Marie about 2am monday morning, for the return home..
the ride across the lower peninsula was ok, once we crossed into lower
Michigan we hit snow, from mackianc city to just south of the I-75/US 27
interchange we had very heavy snow.. vis was less that 3/4 of a mile most
of the way.. after crossing onto US 27 we made a change over to light snow
and freezing drizzle.. the freezing drizzle was made worse by freezing of
the road spray.. making for heavy icing on the antennas and windshield..
which forced me to stop three times to deice the windshield a twice to put
the antennas back on the roof after the iced up and blew over.
upon reaching Lansing we slipped into all rain showers.. and the rest of
the drive was uneventful.
Thanks for your time,
Glen Briggs
IRC: wx - DALnet & AustNET
E-Mail: wx{at}grundyec.net
ICQ: 1133850
http://www.qsl.net/kb0rpj/
KB0RPJ
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