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“I came back over, and I could see the tornado above the Dollar General across the street,” Schuett said. “I started screaming at my wife to get out we need to get to the basement now.”
CADILLAC — The recent bout of unseasonably warm weather could be a reoccurring theme this spring.
cnelson@thealpenanews.com News Photo by Crystal Nelson Alpena resident Devon Gambs catches some air on a ramp Thursday at Riverside Skate Park in Alpena. ALPENA — The month of March tied for the fifth warmest on record since forecasters began tracking Alpena’s weather in 1916. Dan Cornish, meteorologist with the National Weather Service Gaylord, said the average temperature was 35.9 degrees. He said the normal average temperature for March is 28.7 degrees. March 2012 was the warmest March on record for Alpena, with an average temperature of 40.9. “This spring has just been a favorable ...
cnelson@thealpenanews.com News Photo by Crystal Nelson Briley Carstens of Ossineke sleds down a hill at the Caledonia Public Downhill Sledding Park on Saturday in Spruce. ALPENA — The month of February was cooler than normal, but meteorologists with the National Weather Service-Gaylord say snowfall for the month was as close to average as it could get. Meteorologist Dan Cornish, with the National Weather Service-Gaylord, said the observed snowfall for February was 17.4 inches, just 0.1 inches lower than the annual snowfall average of 17.5. “The bigger story, across the entire area, is the...