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 […]
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 […]
As you all have known we have been in a lull for severe weather for the past few years. According to the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, there have been 2159 days since the last tornado watch was issued by the NWS for SW Michigan and 2741 for northern and eastern Michigan. In the counties bordering Indiana, […]
We reached 81° yesterday with a low of 60° this morning at 5:30 am. We had a trace of rain with a few sprinkles passing through in the afternoon. We continue with our dry spring with .39 of an inch of rain so far this month. Our spring total is 3.54 inches (March to current). […]
We reached 82° yesterday and currently have a warm 61.7° at 5 am this morning. We need an all-day rain to wet things up outside but we won’t be seeing that today. Chances of rain are 40 to 50% with perhaps a rumble of thunder mainly near and west of US 131. Weather History for […]