Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just before 6:00 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 20° under snowy skies with windy conditions, but due to thar wind, it feels like 5°. Today's high is forecast to reach 27°, that's a full eight degrees cooler than yesterday. under skies that will be snowy/windy much of the morning as we taper off from an 80% chance for additional snow to 15% after 1:00 p.m. The sun will rise today @ 8:11 a.m. and set later @ 5:39 p.m.

There is a Gale Warning in effect today until 1:00 p.m. until today. That's accompanied by something I've not seen before, a Heavy Freeze Warning from Holland to Grand Haven. Heavy freezing spray at a rate of up to one inch per hour may rapidly accumulate on vessels. Northwest winds of 20 to 30 knots with frequent gusts to 35 knots and waves of 7 to 10 feet are possible from St Joseph to Manistee. Fortunately, the shipping season is over until March as we received our last cargo on the seventh of January..

A River Flood Warning is in effect from until 1:00 p.m. Tuesday! In nearby Robinson Township, the Grand River was reported to have reached 14.1 feet " 8:00 a.m.Saturday. Flood stage is 13.3 feet. Minor Flooding is occurring. The river will continue to fall below flood stage by the early afternoon on Monday. Several homes in the Vanlopik subdivision are surrounded by water. For historical purposes, this crest of the Grand River is about 2 feet lower than the flood in Feb 2018. I'm not sure that the people in the Vanlopik subdivision are getting any comfort from that bit of news.

There is still a Lakeshore Flood Warning in effect for the "Big Lake" until 7:00 p.m. tonight. Minor beach erosion and lakeshore flooding can be expected for significant portions of the lakeshore for Mason, Oceana, Ottawa, Allegan, Van Buren and Muskegon counties. Significant erosion of beaches and dunes, inundation of low-lying areas along the lakeshore and in river mouths, and road closures are possible. Piers and docks will be over-topped by water. Wind from the west around 30 mph early today and shifting to the northwest, will cause waves around 10 feet, which will continue to produce dangerous conditions on piers, breakwaters and unprotected shoreline. Extreme caution is still advised until the winds and waves subside. Winds and waves of this magnitude produce moderate and possibly severe beach erosion. Whoa!

I took a number of pix yesterday of the snowy conditions at that time. I plan to take some additional pix today for another blog of the snow that fell overnight last night. Unfortunately, our snow-removal service has yet to make an appearance, so we were forced to cut some small paths in order to get to the garage and the front sidewalk. If all goes well, I'll take some pix of those when the sun rises today. But, here are some of yesterday's pix.

Not our snow-removal service, but our neighbor's dad and his Jeep™ plowing the driveway.

Yes, the snow was heavy and wet yesterday.

Deep and heavy.

Probably around five inches when I took this pic.

Shortly after what we like to call the city's sidewalk Zamboni went through in front of the manse.

Those aforementioned paths allowed me to walk to the library for my Irish Jam Session which was surprisingly well attended and to also allow Mary to come with the car and pick me up afterwards. I had still more books on hold, so it was a blessing to have Mary check those out for me. Otherwise, I'd have been schlepping those home along with my gear.

Today, I must go out to the car long enough to retrieve the other items that we opted to leave within when we got home to our snow-covered shared driveway. Hopefully, our snow-removal service will come by today. Otherwise, I don't know what we will do. My yak wants no part of snow removal beyond what I did yesterday.

Otherwise, we have nothing on tap for today. Some TV viewing, some reading, some crossword solving, and some other crafty things seen appropriate. Ciao.