Yesterday we had a very nice fall day with 76.3° for our high temp and a low of 50.4° which to my wife’s chagrin signals the start of FOOTBALL season because this old guy loves his football. I have always been a rabid Wolverine fan but I do cheer on the Spartans unless they are […]
Met summer 2021 is now in the history books and we have the data from the NWS for your perusal. The info from our Gaylord and Marquette offices hasn’t been released yet. First, we have the info for August for SW Michigan and Lansing. We ended up with above-normal temps and variable rainfall across the […]
With the shorter days and promise of cooler more tolerable temperatures we welcome the first day of meteorological fall. Sunrise today is 7:08 am, sunset is 8:16 pm. By the end of the month, sunrise/sunset times are 7:39/7:37 respectively. Daily high temperatures for September decrease by 11°F, from 77°F to 66°F, rarely falling below 55°F […]
As I have said before the older I get the faster time seems to march by and now we are at the end of meteorological summer. This summer didn’t disappoint especially for warm weather enthusiasts and August will close out the season of mostly warmer than normal temps, this month being warmer than July. The […]
We have a pleasant 64° at 6 am this morning with the retreating subtropical air mass moving out of the state. We had .12 of an inch of rain yesterday which gives us 3.79 inches for the month of August here at the Center. Yesterday we reached 88.5° with a 77.8° dewpoint and a feels […]
We didn’t quite make it to 90° here at the station yesterday but it was very close, we may as well say it was. We had 89.8° for the high temp with a 79.2° dew point which gave us a feels like temp of 105.5°. The .2 degrees didn’t make much difference in regards to […]
We had a 20-minute downpour from a storm cell that dumped .73 of an inch of rain yesterday evening around 8 pm. We have a two-day rainfall of 2.24 inches after a 12-day dry spell. This brought us up to 3.67 inches for August. The cell formed over the Otsego/Plainwell area and stayed put until […]
We had no rain yesterday and it remained dry in most of Michigan with the exception of the moist air and people suffering in it. Yesterdays high in Otsego was 87.8° with a 79.5 dewpoint. The daylight continues to get shorter – sunrise today is at 7 am, sunset is 8:26 pm. Knowing Michigan’s climate […]
We picked up 1.51 inches of rain from the storms passing through last night which brings us to 2.94 inches for the month of August. No severe weather for the Otsego/Plainwell area, just the heavy rainfall and a few flashes of lightning and some thunder. Our high temp was 90.7° with a 79° dewpoint which […]
After a rather pleasant day yesterday, (we had a high of 83.5 in Otsego with lower dew points) we have another hot and humid day in store for today with highs in the upper 80s to around 90. Heat indices will push well into the 90s. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible both this afternoon […]