We close out the month of July today meaning met summer will be two-thirds over. Sunrise today was at 6:35 am and it sets at 9:05 pm. In Otsego, the rainfall for July is 5.40 inches which is more than an inch above normal. Our summer total is at 8.02 inches. The mostly sunny and […]
Tomorrow is the last day of July. Time sure is flying by. August is the eighth month of the year it is seven months to have a length of 31 days. It is the last month of meteorological summer and is the month that many students return to school. On the weather front with a […]
We managed .03 of an inch of rain yesterday morning, the high temp was 77°, and the low was 61°. We will continue this pleasant stretch of weather right on through the weekend. Our next chance of rain comes Monday. Forecast Discussion — Mainly dry through Sunday — There looks to be another nice stretch […]
We managed .01 of an inch of rain yesterday in Otsego. We now have 5.37 inches for the month. The temp reached 81° for the high and 60° for the low. We have a chance of rain this morning from showers moving across the lake from Wisconsin before clearing out bringing sunny skies by this afternoon. […]
Yesterday we had a high temp of 78° and the low was 55°. We currently have 60° at 6 am this morning. Today will feature higher humidity levels with partly sunny skies and small chances of rain around 20 to 30%. Weather History for SW Michigan July 24 1934: Extreme heat continues for the fifth […]
We have some clouds moving through this morning with light rain out over the lake moving into Grand Haven. Our temp this morning is 56° at 6:30. Sunrise is now 6:30 and the sunsets at 9:09 pm (in Otsego). You may see a few sprinkles this morning before we return to partly cloudy skies this […]
We have a cooler morning with 58° at 7 am. Yesterday we ended up with 1.40 inches of rain from our last system moving through. This gives us 5.36 inches for the month in Otsego. Last July we had 2.99 inches up to this date. We have 7.98 inches for the summer thus far compared […]
We received a hefty 1.26 inches of rain overnight, this put us in the above-average amount for July rainfall. We have 5.22 inches for the month so far and 7.84 inches for the met summer. Most of the thunder, lightning and heavy rain came from 4 to 5 this morning. Showers and thunderstorms will gradually […]
Heating and Cooling Degree Days Update: SW Michigan has been updated and added to the Enhanced Severe Weather outlook. Degree days are based on the assumption that when the outside temperature is 65°F, we don’t need heating or cooling to be comfortable. Degree days are the difference between the daily temperature mean, (high temperature plus low temperature divided by […]
Yesterday we reached 85° with a low of 66°. We had .56 of an inch of welcomed rain in the evening – this brought our total to 3.96 inches for the month. We are one of the wetter areas mainly due to the 1.30 inches we received on the 8th. Below is the updated drought […]