Just Around the Corner
June and summer are just around the corner first off in a travel site from England here is their summery of June here in Michigan.
“June begins the beautiful summer season in Michigan with bright sunshine amid blue skies at the helm. The long days see around 15 hours of sunlight and the rainfall averages 3″ (76.2mm) to 5″ (127mm) in the month.
The average high temperatures are in the pleasant range of 67°F (19.4°C) to 80°F (26.7°C), while the nights are comfortable between the 45°F (7.2°C) to 58°F (14.4°C) range. Temperatures reach 90°F (32.2°C) in the southeast but rarely stay high for long.
The conditions are ideal for boating and fishing in the vast number of lakes. Summer is the chance to visit the state and national parks of Mackinac Island and Isle Royale. The pristine sunshine offers ample time to paddle on the waterways or relax on a boat on one of the many lakes. Thunderstorms are occasional and bring the majority of the summer rainfall. Carry a rain jacket in the vicinity of the lakes. Do not waste a single blissful day in June in Michigan.”
That said here are the updated 15- and 30-year averages for temperature and rain fall for Grand Rapids. The new 15-year average mean for June is 69.1 and a average of 4.00” of rain fall. The updated 30 year average is 68.1 with 3.94” At Holland the 15 year average mean is 68.3 with the 30 year mean being 67.9. At Muskegon the 15-year mean is 67.7 and the 30-year men is 67.4. The average H/L on the 1st at Grand Rapids is 75.3/54.1 for 30 years and 76.2/55 at 15 years. At Holland it is 74.2/53.5 at 30 years and 74.8/54.6 at 15 years for Muskegon the numbers are 73.8/52.9 at 30 and 74. /53.7 at 15. Across the board the 15-year averages are higher than the 30 year average so the last 15 years were warmer than the first 15 years.
The warmest June’s at Grand Rapids are (1919 *74.2) (1933**/74.0) (1921***73.4) (1934****73.2) and (2005*****72.5) and the coldest (1969*61.8) (1928**61.9) (1958***62.0) (1926****62.3) and (1945*****62.5) last year was 69.6.
The record high for June is 102 set on June 1st 1934 and again on June 20th 1953. The record low is 32 set on June 4th 1945 it also got down to 33 on June 11th 1972. It has gotten down below 36 in 6 years in June and 36 years it has gotten down below 40 in June. The coldest maximum in any June happened in 1916 when the high for the month was only 81 and it only got into the 80’s on two days.
Since 1900 the average number of 90° days in June is just 3. There have been a total of 37 years with no days in June of 90 or better and 21 more with just 1 day. So the odds are that there will NOT be a lot of 90° days in June. The most in that time was 12 in 1933 and in the next year there was 11 in 1934 and in 1988 (a very dry June) there was 10. Ever other year there has been less than 10 Last year there was 3.
The wettest June was a reported 13.22” in 1892 8.21” was reported in 1967 and 8.04” in 2010. The driest June was 1988 when just 0.25” fell in 1959 just 0.59” fell. In 1984 0.62” fell in 1908 0.83” fell all other years more than 1” has fallen. Last year the total was 2.84”.
Next week I will post some weather information for the summer season.
Slim
Turn on your furnace and cover your plants! COLd Alert!!!
Tomorrow may be a contender for the nicest day of the year. 70, calm wind, sunny. Doesn’t get any better than that!
Looks like everybody is at the beach…LOL. The record low for tomorrow morning is 34 set in 1996 and 1965 (there was frost in June up north in 1965) So tomorrow will be yet another day with a low in the top ten. At this time it is clear and 64 here with a DP of 29 so once the sun goes down and the winds go calm it will once again get cold real fast.
Slim
Another May cold snap! The cold just keeps coming! Who would have thought? Incredible cold!
I covered the tomato plants before I went to bed last night and that may have been a good thing as it dropped to 34 here and there is some light frost. It looks like the official low at the airport was 37. Yesterdays official high at Grand Rapids of 51 was the coldest maximum for any May 28th at Grand Rapids and the low of 39 was was the 11th coldest low for May 28th Todays official low of 37 will become a tie for the 5th coldest minimum for any May 29th It now looks like May 2021… Read more »
What? Another below normal temp month despite the constant warm weather hype? Wow!
We moved ours into the garage and also brought in the hanging baskets. Glad we did too.