Notice that unique, exceedingly rare phrase only seen on TWC local forecasts near the Great Lakes, “heavier amounts in favored snowbelt locales”... you won’t find that anywhere else on YouTube (though I did see its cousin, “heavier amounts in persistent snowbands” in Lansing back in January 2007). At the tail end of the calendar year 2009, I had found out about a prolific Lake-Effect Snow event that was slated to fire up across the Great Lakes. Now, I've posted videos in the past of the Intellistar unit in Lansing while a Lake Effect Snow Advisory was in effect... but I was never fortunate enough to see the lake-effect snow machine bring any significant accumulations far enough inland to reach me in Lansing. So, South Haven came to mind. I had not been to South Haven before this, and I realized that they were in the ideal location given the North/NNW wind flow that controlled the bulk of this lake-effect snow event. Alas, we have a problem. A mild December left me without shoveling revenue, and the Dad was without funds as well. Enter, a friend of the dad's. He wired money to Dad for fuel and the hotel stay so we could travel to South Haven. It didn't take long once we got on Interstate 196... the main connector between Grand Rapids and Chicago, to see whiteout conditions and travel effectively reduced to one lane.
Then we had the issue of only one cable box for two people. I had become accustomed to Charter communications on my travels, as they had taken far longer to force customers to connect cable boxes to televisions than Comcast did. Thankfully after some negotiating, the front desk manager at the Holiday Inn Express in South Haven allowed me to set up my laptop in an adjoining room.
I have some of the only local forecast clips on YouTube featuring a Lake Effect Snow Warning, and of a forecast for "occasional snow and snow squalls" (doesn't it sound like the narration starts crapping out when it reads "squalls")?
Here is a clip I had uploaded and soon pulled, featuring "Truth, Simplicity, and Love" by Soulstance. No copyright infringement is intended. This was incidentally the only time in the 24-hour time I spent in South Haven that the temperature was NOT reported to be 19 in South Haven (I should mention I have never trusted the current conditions that The Weather Channel generates through its HiRAD system, and I continue to go the extra step to check actual CC reports from NWS observing sites). Also notice how a different report is shown for Grand Rapids between the metro and regional CC maps at the beginning.
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