Winter Solstice

December 21st at 11;28 AM (EST), the tilt of the earth's axis reaches the farthest away from the sun (for the northern hemisphere) and the point of least solar radiation for the year. This is called the winter solstice and marks the beginning of winter. It is also the shortest day of the year. Sunrise today comes at 8:01 AM and sunset occurs at 5:06 PM, giving us just 9 hours and 5 minutes of sunlight in Ann Arbor. After this point, the days get longer and the weather, eventually, starts to warm up. From this point, we can start looking forward to spring and a new golf season.

Spring

Summer

 A Fall Prescribed Burn

Winter

November Weather Summary

November 2017 had an average temperature of 39.9 degrees, down almost 15 degrees from October. The high temperature was 65.2 (November 28th!) and the lowest recorded temperature was 18.8, (Nov 10th.) Fifteen days had low temperatures below freezing while one day (again, the 10th) never got above 32 degrees.

We got 3.96 inches of rain at Leslie Park's weather station during November. The rain fell on 11 different days, with the largest amount coming on the 18th (1.59 inches.) Eight days recorded more than a tenth of an inch. That brings the total so far to 35.65 inches for 2017.