The Lakeshore News is the Weather!
The lakeshore news topic lately is the weather. Along the lakeshore we have the strangest weather. Western Michigan along the Lake Michigan shoreline is so different than what is experienced just a short distance away from the lake.
We do not get snow here in Grand Haven or Spring Lake or anywhere close to the lakeshore. We get lake effect!
Saturday night, my husband and myself, had to go to Grand Rapids for a dinner. While I96 and US31 had been closed for bad accidents due to white-outs and icy conditions, just a few miles up 96 to Eastmanville you would have never known there was such a mess going on along the lakeshore.
We went just a few miles past Eastmanville toward Grand Rapids and the snow and blowing just stopped. The roads were dry and clear. It was still cold but that was about it. It was as different as night and day.
We went and had our dinner. When we returned home it was the same situation as when we left, accept it was even darker with white-outs. It was a long ride home going so slow and white knuckling it.
We have a lot of perks living on the lakeshore in the summer with cooler temperatures and lake breezes, but we definitely end up paying for it in the winter months. I am not complaining though. The winters are absolutely gorgeous along the lakeshore in the winter.
Perhaps the lakeshore news is the weather, but for those that live along the lakeshore it is home for year round excitement.
