The weather here in Houghton lake, resident of 12
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4/29/2008
The climate here is...well..cold... seems like most of the time and one does get cabin fever when March rolls around, if not sooner. Can't wait for summer!
If you love the cold then this the place to be, plenty of outdoor activites, we have tip up town that's held in January, they have fishing contests, snomobile races, carnival, beer tent, parades, etc.,
We even had a movie filmed right on Houghton Lake staring Earnest Bourgnine called 'Frozen Stupid'!
There are ski resorts not too far away, and a lot of people come up to enjoy the trails through the woods on snomobiles.
In the summer we have the lake, and also Higgins lake nearby with boating and swimming and beaches.
Houghton Lake has had milfoil issues and has been treated, so sometimes people get swimmers itch, but we never got it...at least...not yet!
Spring goes by very quickly, sometimes we have a very fast spring and it goes right away into the warmer summer months, but is welcomed.
It doesn't get over bearingly hot, just hot, but tolerable and most of the times very enjoyable.
The nights are usualy cold, and we usualy close the windows for the night, but on those special warm ones it's a treat to have the windows open to hear the songs of the crickets and insects.
We don't like the mosquitoes that start at dusk, but you go inside early or wear repellant, or spray you yard.
Overall I wish the summers were longer.
Martha | Houghton Lake, MI