COTC 11 Dec 2025

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Good morning, Northern Michigan.

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This is Cup of Traverse City for

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the 12/11/2025.

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And as we normally do, we're gonna start

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with the weather.

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Of

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course, today,

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50% chance of snow showers.

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Mostly cloudy with

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a high near 29.

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Northwest wind,

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five to 10 miles an hour. Tonight, a

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30% chance of snow showers mainly before 1AM.

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Mostly cloudy with a low around nineteen.

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West wind

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around five miles per hour becoming south after

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midnight. That might mean a little warm up.

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I don't know.

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And, of course, Friday, a 40% chance of

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snow showers mainly after 1PM.

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Mostly cloudy with a high near 30. So,

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yeah, a little warmer.

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Southwest winds five to 10 miles per hour.

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And, you know, I was looking at the

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radar this morning, and there is a band

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of

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of,

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lake effect snow

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that stretches

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basically from Northport all the way down to

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Ross Common. So it's just a little

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north and east of where I'm at in

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Traverse City.

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I don't know where you're at, but,

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yeah, it looks like it, could dump some

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snow.

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But, so far today,

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you know, I plowed yesterday, and,

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nothing's

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nothing's

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accumulated

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since. So that's a good thing.

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I'm gonna do a little more plowing today,

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but,

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just to clean things up. Well, enough about

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me.

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Let's see. I wanna look at the snowfall.

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I like watching these, snowfall numbers for the

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season.

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According to this, Traverse City had 2.7

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inches of snow over the last twenty four

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hours. It's probably about right.

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The other you know, yesterday

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morning, it was, you know, probably

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four inches here, but, officially, 2.7.

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We've had a whole, 22.8

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inches of snow.

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Normal for this day,

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of the season is 12.4

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for the season,

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and we're a 184%

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over what we normally get.

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I was just looking at West Branch. I

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know that's a little out of the Northern

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Michigan area, but West Branch,

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has had 18

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inches of snow

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and normal is 7.8.

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So they're 232%

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over

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or 232%

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of their

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seasonal snowfall so far,

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and their normal down there is 53 inches,

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which I could I could deal with a

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53 inch,

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snowfall.

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I I tell you though, it's a lot

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better than last year. I remember last year,

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it did not stop snowing

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from Thanksgiving all the way to the February.

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It was you know, there was a couple

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days in there, but for the most part,

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every day, we had measurable snow and, you

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you know that kind of what I remember

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from, the seventies and eighties.

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But,

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you know,

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I don't know. We're obsessed with weather around

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here

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this time of year, and, of course, we'll

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have some some other things to talk about,

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when the weather's not crazy

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or normal.

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I guess it's normal.

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At first, I was like, I'm already tired

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of it, and,

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now I'm kinda getting into it and getting

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used to it. So

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I don't I don't mind. I'd rather be

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here

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in the snow than someplace busy.

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So anyhoo,

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and I almost said my keyword there, but

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I'm not going to.

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Traverse City Light and Power is thinking about

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building a campus

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up on Cedar Run Road.

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They had a

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field up there. It's about

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what did it say here? 50 acres of

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land along Cedar Run Road kinda on the

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side hill there,

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as you're going up. And

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what they use that for

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back in the day is when they had

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that coal fired plant, right down on the

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Bay Shore.

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They would, dump the ash

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on that field. That's what that field was.

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And, now, you know, since they don't have

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the coal fired plant anymore, that field is

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really greened up and solided up and, you

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know, looks pretty cool.

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And the TC light and power board and

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by the way, TC light and power is

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owned by the city of Traverse City. It's

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I don't know if that's unique, but it's

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a municipal,

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entity. And they also do Internet, by the

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way, if you're in the lucky areas to

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get their fiber Internet,

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right here where I'm at. I'm just outside

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of their area, but they say they're gonna

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expand here. Kinda look forward to that. But,

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anyway, they they wanna build a $40,000,000

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campus,

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out there on Cedar Run Road, which will

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be

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interesting because, you know, they'll they'll do some,

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you know, a sustainable

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power there, and they're gonna do, like, a

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little natural area.

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It sounds pretty ambitious. I don't know if

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they're actually gonna do it, but, that's

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what they're thinking about. And we were going

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a little long today. That's alright.

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But, yeah, it'd be nice for them to

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put that land to use. They were either

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gonna do that or sell it. It'd be

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a great spot for,

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for some some rich person's house

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or, you know, a housing development of some

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sort. But, you know, right now it's just

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an open field where they dumped coal ash

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for many, many, many years.

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So and with that, we'll call this a

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day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.