Normally this time of year, January, usually finds the farm lands of SW Michigan coated with several inches of snow and the Lake Michigan shore line covered with at least a mile or so covering of shore ice. This week, not so much.
Jan 5 was a fine day for flying with plenty of blue sky, light and variable winds and only the occasional down draft bump. Hope you enjoy the area pictures.
2019 – Jan 5: Benton Harbor Regional Airport (KBEH). Looking closely, you can see several aircraft and a helicopter making used of today’s dry runways.Jan 5, 2019: St. Joseph and Benton Harbor without snow and Lake Michigan without its normal ice covered shoreline.Jan-2019: Benton Harbor on Cinema Way / Mall Drive – Big Box Stores and four new hotels.Jan 5, 2019: Lakeland Hospital (Lakeland Health & Spectrum) and its new building right off Napier & Langley Ave in St. Joseph, Mi.Jan 5, 2019: Lake Michigan College – Benton Harbor (off Napier Ave)Jan 5, 2019: Four Winds Casino off Red Arrow Hwy between Hartford and Watervliet, MI.Jan 5, 2019: I&M Solar Farm & switch yard in the Watervliet, Mi area.Jan 5, 2019: Hartford H.S. and the Hartford Race Track -Hartford MichiganJan 5, 2019: Watervliet Airport (40c) – Located at the East end of Big Paw Paw Lake in Watervliet. Runways are a bit soggy and mushey this time of year.Jan 5, 2019: Sister Lakes area – Dowagiac: Magician Lake with only a very small section having any ice. Very unusual for a January!
Jan 5, 2019: Magician Lake (Sister Lakes- Dowagiac) – The water clarity was very good today and as you can see the lake is getting much shallower.
Jan 5, 2019: Saw this around the Paw Paw Michigan area – Might be Doc’s Salvage- Junk Yard. Quite orderly for a junk yard.
