Another dry warm week is in store. We have had only .11 of an inch of rain this month in Otsego and our last meaningful rain was way back on August 17th (we had 1.59 inches). This pattern may continue through the rest of the month. Weather History 1939: A four-day heat wave peaks across […]
Yesterday we had a high of 89° and a low of 53° with mostly clear skies. Our last good rainfall was on August 17. I always wondered what meteorologists talked about in the desert SW where they have over 340 days of sunny weather. We will continue our sunny dry pattern for at least another […]
Our dry warm weather pattern continues. Yesterday’s high was 87° though with dewpoints in the low 50s it wasn’t wholly uncomfortable. Yesterday’s low was 50°. Today we will see mostly sunny skies with temperatures in the upper 80’s. Weather History 1986: From 6 to 12 inches of rain in three days resulted in record flooding […]
Yesterday we reached a high of 84° and a low of 53° with mostly sunny skies. Our forecast remains much the same with temperatures in the mid to upper 80s and mostly dry conditions into next week. A small chance of rain exists for the weekend. This is the ECMWF winter forecast (ECMWF is the […]
Keep in mind summer officially ends on September 22nd so we can’t complain about the above normal temperatures. The issue is the lack of rainfall in Michigan due to a blocking pattern in Ontario holding back the moisture. At my station, we have had only .11 of an inch so far for September and .28 […]
Yesterday we had a high of 70° and a low of 40°. This week and most of the rest of the month is predicted to be mainly warm and dry. The only chance for rainfall this week may come this weekend from tropical storm 6 now developing in the western Gulf of Mexico. Temperatures this […]
With a weekend of fall-like temperatures, the climate will turn once again to hot and dry conditions for the upcoming week with no chance of rain forecast. Yesterday we had breezy conditions with a high of 64° and a low of 44°. This morning we are 40° at 6 am. After an extended period of […]
We will see partly sunny skies today with much cooler temperatures in store. We saw less than a tenth of an inch of rain overnight. We haven’t had a decent rainfall for 20 days so it is getting a bit dry. According to the CPC, most of the rest of the month will be dry […]
We have a warm day in store with temperatures in the 80s. Clouds will increase and rain will develop overnight with a tenth to a quarter inch expected. Temperatures will be cooling down into the 60s on Friday and Saturday before we begin another sunny and dry period for next week. Weather History 1997: Cool […]
Another sunny day is in store with temperatures continuing to warm up. Enjoy them because the climate is going to turn for the weekend giving us a good taste of fall. We will see sunny skies today and tomorrow with temperatures in the low 80s today and the mid-80s tomorrow. We have a chance of […]