Average daily wind speeds have been as high as 15.5 mostly from the SouthWest. If your boat is afloat the last week should have given you some grand sailing. The last week has also brought a high work rate for the pierhead fog signal. Many a day the big lake has been fogged in. Several Torresen Marine customers hoping to transit Lake Michigan and get their boats home have chosen to wait out the fog.
Spring is also when the phrase 'cooler near the lake' becomes a weather forecast stand by.
Monday morning Muskegon temperature listed at 67 . As I pedaled Lake Shore Drive the Sappi Paper Mill said 62 . A check of the Lake Michigan field station showed 58 . That day it was indeed cooler by the lake. Finally, the last couple of days have produced 1.6 inches of rain.