Two Rivers High School graduate and lakeshore native Luke Sampe was on WOMT’s Be My Guest recently and addressed some weather-related questions.
One of those listening to the show with the Channel-5 Meteorologist and host Lee Douglas noticed that this summer in Kewaunee was unusually warmer than Manitowoc.
Sampe explained why that may have been the case.
“The way the shoreline for Manitowoc juts out into the lake, [we] get the short end of the stick,” he explained. “You almost have to have a due west wind here to get a decent warmup, while there’s portions of Kewaunee that are not susceptible to even a south wind for the cool down. The majority of the temperature in the summer here really has to do with those two things.”
Then, there’s the Farmer’s Almanac and their predictions for winter in the upper midwest.
Sampe told us, “I’m not a big proponent at all of the Farmer’s Almanac for a couple of reasons. For one, the biggest thing is they don’t show how they come up with their information. The other thing is I guess they adopted the vagueness as a key to accuracy so you’ll see cold and snowy, or warm and dry.”
The Green Bay TV weatherman added, “I have no problem if you want to read it, but I would just caution taking what it has as true information.”
