I’ve always been a big fan of the Weather Channel.  Maybe it’s all the maps they show.  Or the odd weather stories.  I was particularly tickled when the remains of Hurricane Ike pushed directly over our region.  Bill Steffen, the fascinating weather blogger at WOOD TV has a highly recommended post related to Michigan’s hurricane history.

Among the crazy information in his post is a 1996 storm dubbed “Hurricane Huron.”  It was a mid-September storm that pushed over Lake Huron at the lake’s peak annual temperature.  The storm briefly developed an eye wall, feeder bands and other tropical storm-like characteristics.  Read more below:

http://blogs.woodtv.com/2008/09/30/hurricane-huron/

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