COTC - 10 Dec 20025

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Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is Cup of

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Traverse City for the 12/10/2025.

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I'm Mike, and I have my coffee in

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hand. Well, truth be told, I already had

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a whole cup. Now I got a second

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one, so we're good.

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Anyway, today

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in the weather,

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what is the actual temperature right now? It's

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28 degrees, so you know, sort of mild

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for winter.

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You know I predicted that all this stuff

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was gonna melt off one more time. Well,

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I think I'm wrong.

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Anyway,

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today a 50% chance of snow showers, patchy

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blowing snow between 1PM 3PM.

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They're pretty exact today.

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Mostly cloudy with a temperature falling to around

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25 by 5PM.

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Blustery with a north wind of 10 to

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20 miles per hour with gust as high

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as 35. Yeah. That does sound blustery.

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Tonight's snow showers likely mostly cloudy with a

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steady temperature around 24 northwest wind, 10 to

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15 miles per hour with gusts as high

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as 35.

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And, well yeah. And tomorrow,

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30%

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chance of snow showers. Hey. We're getting a

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little bit less.

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I don't know. It's snow snow. So every

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every line on the extended forecast says snow.

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And I guess that's

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apropos for this time of year. But,

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anyway, I'm I'm already sort of tired of

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it, but that's alright.

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So let's see. The main thing in the

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news that caught my eye is the Blue

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Angels have

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decided that they are gonna return to the

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National Cherry Festival in 2027,

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not next year, the year after.

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Next year they're gonna have the f sixteen,

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Viper demo team amongst other airshow acts at

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the Cherry Festival Air Show.

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They usually put together a pretty good show

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whether the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds

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are here or

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not. Kinda curious the Thunderbirds

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have been missing for a little bit. As

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you know, I'm an aviation

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enthusiast and a pilot.

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So,

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you know, I I take great,

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pleasure in watching

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things like that. Plus, I was in the

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air force and worked on fighter jets.

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So, yeah,

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there there there's that.

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But,

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anyway, so

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that show will like I said, in 2027,

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we'll have the Blue Angels again. So that's

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good. They're they've been coming here since 1988.

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And, you know,

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the last year, there was a bit of

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a controversy

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with the airport

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and and all that, but I think they've

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got that worked out, hopefully.

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And, we'll continue to have the, the festival

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air show. It's kinda neat how they do

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it.

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They,

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usually come in a few days early, you

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know, all the acts, and, they do a

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practice show on Friday, and then they do

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a full show on Saturday and Sunday. So

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you got lots of opportunities

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to watch the air show, and

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one of the unique things is

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that they do it over water.

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Usually over it's over West Bay, and they

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set up

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airshow box in the bay. And it usually

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has some coast guard ships and coast guard

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auxiliary

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boats

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and whatnot,

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that

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cordon off the the box so, you know,

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you can launch your boat and go out

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watch the, airshow

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from the water, which I may do that

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this year, this coming up year. I haven't

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done that in many years.

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It was, that was a lot of fun.

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Thing with that is you got to put

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your boat in really early

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to get a get a spot at any

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of the boat launches on West Bay.

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But, you know, maybe I'll be adventurous, put

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it in on East Bay and, you know,

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early in the morning when it's calm, hopefully,

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and go around the peninsula. But,

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yeah. I've I've done it on Center Road

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Launch or not Center Road, Bowers Harbor Launch.

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And if you get there really early, you

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can get a parking spot for your boat

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and trailer.

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But, anyway, that's all summertime stuff. We're dealing

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here with winter.

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And one tip,

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I've noticed a lot of people driving around

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that with

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very little

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snow removal on their windows.

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Please please please please clear your windows.

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Watched a guy drive by just a little

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bit ago as I had to shovel my

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way into the

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studio this morning. If you don't know, my

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studio is a 10 by 10 shed in

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my backyard,

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and

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I had to shovel my way from the

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back door to the, office this morning and,

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you know, out to the driveway.

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But as I was shoveling, I looked and,

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there was a a guy that I it

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looks like he

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cleaned off, like,

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half of his windshield and none of the

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side windows or the back window, and he's

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driving down the road.

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Yeah. Please please clear your windows. And if

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you have four wheel drive that you can

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switch from four to two,

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make sure you're in four wheel drive whenever

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the roads are covered. Yes. It'll make you

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go faster, but also know that it will

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not make you stop faster.

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Anyway, I had a whole episode on winter

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driving over at mikedell.com,

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Mike Dell's world

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show that I do. So go over and

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listen to that. I have lots of, winter

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driving tips because I've done it a lot.

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And so if you're in Traverse City, you

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probably have too. So, anyway, we'll catch you

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tomorrow.