Not much rain yesterday or overnight, we had a tenth of an inch in Otsego which brings our total to .39 for the month. I was digging holes for posts yesterday with the post hole diggers and the moisture in the soil was about a foot down which gives a good depiction of how dry […]
Yesterday we reached 70° after a morning low of 29.5°. Our low this morning was 31°. We are closing in on the midpoint of May and we have only received a meager .29 of an inch of rain. Rain chances today are pretty much zero with lots of sun and warm temps near 70° with […]
Lots of sun yesterday with high temps of 65° after a morning low of 28° and just enough breeze to work comfortably outdoors. My wife is in charge of our multiple flower beds and I do the veggie gardens and lawns. Now that the danger of frost is (hopefully) gone it is time to get […]
We have another 28° morning (4:30 am temp). We will see a slow warming trend over the rest of the week though we will be moisture starved until we get into next week as we see a gradual pattern change into warmer wetter conditions which are sorely needed. Weather History for SW Michigan May 9 […]
We had a trace of rain yesterday which amounted to a few sprinkles. Temps this morning are below freezing once again. We currently have 28° at 6 am. Our freeze warning continues through 9 am. It has been pretty boring being a weather person this spring with few if any events to get excited about. […]
We have a temp of 37° this morning at 6 am with a few light showers trying to work themselves in off Lake Michigan. We have only had .29 of an inch of rain so far this month as we continue through our dry spring. The CPC is predicting a warming trend with a slightly […]
We have 38° this morning at 6 am which is 10° warmer than we had for a low yesterday morning as we continue with our cool pattern. We have threats of widespread frost over the next three nights which isn’t typical though not unheard of for early May. Last year at this time we also […]
We have 31° at 6 am here in Otsego. Yesterday our high temp was 48.6° with .15 of an inch of rain bringing our monthly total to .30. We also have some fog around the area thus the dense fog advisory until 9:00 am. We have about a 30% chance of rain for this morning […]
New Climate Normals Released We have new normals released which is a new set of data from the previous 30 years by which we will judge whether any day will be cooler or hotter, wetter or dryer than normal. Please note there are some formatting issues between coding differences between the NWS and myself – […]
Tomorrow I will have info on the new climate normals for the next 30 years, stay tuned. Weather History for SW Michigan May 2 1929: A snowstorm puts down a slushy coating of 2 to 3 inches of snow across southwest Lower Michigan. 1930: Grand Rapids was struck by a tornado that moved through the […]