Our long weekend had been nice albeit a bit on the cool side especially in the mornings but today we begin to see a gradual warm-up until we reach the other end of temperature extremes. Rain will generally be north of I96 today with cloudy conditions most everywhere else. We will close out the month […]
We have another sunny day in store for SW Michigan. Yesterday’s high/low was 64/34° and we have 34° once again this morning with a 33.2 dewpoint, these are 7 am readings in Otsego. Our rainfall has been only 1.32 inches for the month of May. Below are the weather extremes for Memorial Day. We […]
Just Around the Corner June and summer are just around the corner first off in a travel site from England here is their summery of June here in Michigan. “June begins the beautiful summer season in Michigan with bright sunshine amid blue skies at the helm. The long days see around 15 hours of sunlight and the […]
We will have a chilly start to the holiday weekend with a little light rain and temps struggling to reach the mid-50s. We had .25 of an inch of rain overnight and early this morning – the temp is 40° at 6 am with some mist in the air. We now have a total of […]
We have a cool breeze blowing early this morning at 3:30 as a prelude to a cooler pattern over the next few days. There is a frost advisory in place for the northern counties for early this morning where temps will drop into the 30s. The coldest I have seen thus far this morning is […]
Rain is beginning to move through this morning before daybreak. This should be through the area before noon, so not an all-day soaking event to be sure though we may see some brief downpours with some thunder and lightning. After the front pushes through the air will cool with the coolest being in the northern […]
We have been speculating about rain chances for the good part of three weeks now and most of the medium range guesses have been ill-conceived with the exception of the northern lower very little has fallen – a trace in many locations. The last time we had significant rain was the .55 of an inch […]
Yesterday and overnight there was a wide variety of rainfall amounts around the area. We had a trace here in Otsego, 0.9 fell in Dorr, .22 in Plainfield, 1.14 in Stanwood and 2.30 near Mount Pleasant just to name a few. A cold front that passed through on Sunday will return north as a warm […]
I remember back in the day when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s if we uttered the word ‘fart’ we would end up sitting in the corner with a bar of soap in our mouths. Nowadays it is more socially acceptable. Cattle populations have grown over the past decades to accommodate food […]
May Heat Waves May in most years is a pleasant late spring month with mild days and cool nights. But from time to time there can be a very warm period and in some respects a mini “Heat Wave” The World Meteorological Organization is specific in its definition by stating that a heat wave […]