I was eating a steak the other day, and as I sat down I noticed how my steak was shaped like the state of Michigan. I did not know the state of Michigan was so tasty. I also thought the hand was the only thing other than a map that I could use to show where I lived.

Announced by Rich Thompson the other day, a format update for the meso analysis page will be coming in March. To test the updated version visit this link

I really like the fluidity of this newer look. After visiting the page for no more than five minutes I became very comfortable with its use. It is very user friendly. I look forward to using this coming up this spring.

Small Sector Capture

Update: Winter Storm for Tue-Wed

A Winter Storm Warning is in effect for areas south of a line from Pentwater to Clare beginning at 7am on Tuesday. A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for counties along a line from Ludington to Harrison beginning at 7am Tuesday. The warnings and advisories are valid through 1pm Wednesday. The storm system is expected to evolve as a phasing of two upper level disturbances occurs near the Great Lakes region by Tuesday. The resulting surface low is forecast to move into northern Ohio by late Tuesday and early Wednesday. The forecast low track is anticipated to stay just south of the Cleveland area by Tuesday night. Model guidance continues to suggest a swath of 6-12″ accumulations across southern Lower Michigan from Tuesday morning through Wednesday morning. The highest amounts will fall across southern Lower Michigan. The following are storm total accumulations for selected cities:

Ludington 4-7″

Big Rapids 5-9″

Mount Pleasant 5-9″

Muskegon 5-9″

Grand Rapids Metro 6-10″

Lansing 6-10″

Kalamazoo 8-12″

Jackson 8-12″

For some odd reason I get caught up in changing the look of the site around this time of year. I want something simple to work with. I found this template at Wordpress.  This has become the new look for the blog and will leave the main home page as is.  I would prefer to have the blog and website layout the same. However, I am having issues with the change over in the weather pages. I am not very familiar with PHP, and several of the javascript, HTML, and CSS codes do not want to cooperate. PHP allows me to make one change or addition and it is changed on every page, rather then going through every page there is and manually changing it (time consuming).

Current changes include:

rounded corners except in IE.

It is optimized for Firefox.

The navigation bars on the right are collapsible and are movable (you can move the media bar below the links bar if you wanted).

New top navigation buttons.

The house icon takes you to the blog home page

Main Site tab, takes you to midwestchasers.com main page

The Blog tab will give you links to photography/storm reports by year and also a link to video’s

A new featured post box

I will keep my latest updates here on the blog. Not that any one comes here anyway. . .

“On a special note, my wife and I are expecting and will be due around the 30th of August.”