Reason #4082732 I like to live in mid-Michigan.

The weather! That's right. We have four seasons here in mid-Michigan. However, there is a buffering action somehow, and the mid-section of the state gets less severe weather. We're far enough from the Great Lakes to miss the Lake Effect snow. Also, in recent years it seems that the big sweeps from the prairies have somehow been diverted, following the I-94 corridor east-west across the state and leaving the Capitol Area with less precipitation. I, of course, have a theory about this. I call it the thermals theory. We human beans give off heat, approximately 1200 BTU per hour. Areas of high congregations of people would give off a dynamic amount of heat, causing thermals to rise from that area. These thermals can deflect and alter weather flows. This theory was first established after being at yet another football game where the weather threatened, but held off until game's end. Eighty thousand people X 1200 is a lot of BTU's. (Yes yes, I know it doesn't always work, but sometimes the weather front is just tooooo powerful. Only goes to prove the theory.)

In the case of Lansing getting less severe weather than say Jackson, which is 30 miles to the south, it is my belief as part of the "thermal theory" that Chicago and its environs produces enough rising heat to deflect the sweep of weather off the prairie, sending it down I-94. That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it. Remember, you heard it here first. (Though I can't believe ANYONE would get this far into this goofy post. My family has been hearing my theory for years: now I'm passing it onto my blog family. Love ya!)