Grand Haven, MI in early September
We are thinking of doing a long weekend trip (3 nights)in September with our DD, DS and his GF, all mid 20's. We have never been to MI and thought Grand Haven sounded interesting. Considering PJ Hoff...
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welove2drive,
Here's 2 web sites for the Grand Haven area and beach. The surf cam free and is live flowing video in color and 24 hours a day. Google this:
surfgrandhaven.com.
Click on the on marine near top right and it gives the water temps for the last 8-10 days and you will notice the water temp at the beach was 69 degrees last week (about 5 degrees below normal for this date) and the water was still filled with over a thousand swimmers at the long beach and then a cold front went thru on Sunday night and and the north wind (july 28th) dropped the water temp on monday this week as the front blew surface cold water down from the northern part of the lake but it's back on it's way up again tuesday. Will be back into the high 60's by the weekend. We live on the lakeshore and see how many are in the water every day and know exactly how the wind driven surface water changes the water temps up and down. The lake virtually stays cold up north near the Straits about all year but not down here. Normally it's in the 70's july, august, and most of september at Grand Haven with a few sturts to 80+ degrees.
Think about it this way as it's what actually happens and you can research it. Lake Michigan is 100 miles wide, 340 miles long on a straight line, 923 feet deep. So it takes most of the summer to heat all that water up and then takes nearly all winter to cool that much water back down. The seasons along the Lake Michigan shoreline in West Michigan are basically shifted 2-4 weeks later in the calendar year and that's why it's usually warm water for the month of september too. We have warmer falls along the lake than inland because the warm lake air rises like heat always does and is blown over the land by the prevailing west winds. The opposite in spring as the lake is cold and it's cooler near the lake for about a month than inland. The great thing is we very seldom need and A/C here as the lake keeps us cool with it's natural A/C until late september and it's so neat. The warm air from the lake kppes it warmer along the lake in winter until mid to late february and that's when the witer air is about over and it starts warming up again.
Grand Haven never got below zero even at night all last winter (look it up!) and you know it was -10, -20, in Indiana and was -24 in the Madison, Wisconsin area as their air is not warmed by the big lake because the wind comes from the west. Gee, we love living on the lakeshore here!
The other website is:
visitgrandhaven.com
Tons of info for you.
The live cam on top of a building on the waterfront that you control right from your own computer anywhere in the world is down right now are as it's being repaired. I don't know the date it will be back up on line.
Here's 2 web sites for the Grand Haven area and beach. The surf cam free and is live flowing video in color and 24 hours a day. Google this:
surfgrandhaven.com.
Click on the on marine near top right and it gives the water temps for the last 8-10 days and you will notice the water temp at the beach was 69 degrees last week (about 5 degrees below normal for this date) and the water was still filled with over a thousand swimmers at the long beach and then a cold front went thru on Sunday night and and the north wind (july 28th) dropped the water temp on monday this week as the front blew surface cold water down from the northern part of the lake but it's back on it's way up again tuesday. Will be back into the high 60's by the weekend. We live on the lakeshore and see how many are in the water every day and know exactly how the wind driven surface water changes the water temps up and down. The lake virtually stays cold up north near the Straits about all year but not down here. Normally it's in the 70's july, august, and most of september at Grand Haven with a few sturts to 80+ degrees.
Think about it this way as it's what actually happens and you can research it. Lake Michigan is 100 miles wide, 340 miles long on a straight line, 923 feet deep. So it takes most of the summer to heat all that water up and then takes nearly all winter to cool that much water back down. The seasons along the Lake Michigan shoreline in West Michigan are basically shifted 2-4 weeks later in the calendar year and that's why it's usually warm water for the month of september too. We have warmer falls along the lake than inland because the warm lake air rises like heat always does and is blown over the land by the prevailing west winds. The opposite in spring as the lake is cold and it's cooler near the lake for about a month than inland. The great thing is we very seldom need and A/C here as the lake keeps us cool with it's natural A/C until late september and it's so neat. The warm air from the lake kppes it warmer along the lake in winter until mid to late february and that's when the witer air is about over and it starts warming up again.
Grand Haven never got below zero even at night all last winter (look it up!) and you know it was -10, -20, in Indiana and was -24 in the Madison, Wisconsin area as their air is not warmed by the big lake because the wind comes from the west. Gee, we love living on the lakeshore here!
The other website is:
visitgrandhaven.com
Tons of info for you.
The live cam on top of a building on the waterfront that you control right from your own computer anywhere in the world is down right now are as it's being repaired. I don't know the date it will be back up on line.
