We have picked up .21 of an inch of rain overnight bringing our total to 1.46 inches thus far for July and 10.46 inches for the summer. After a hot and humid week, we will see cooler temps today with lingering morning showers and isolated thunderstorms. Temps will be more tolerable, ten degrees cooler than […]
We are definitely getting a good taste of tropical weather this week with temps near 90° and dewpoints in the 60s to near 70° making it really hard to enjoy doing much outside with the exception of sitting in a lawn chair enjoying a cold brew. The convective outlook for today has the marginal risk […]
We have some showers and storms moving through this morning. We have picked up over an inch of rain with the heavy rain and storms in Otsego. Overnight temps were held in the mid-70s before the rain came through. Yesterday we reached a steamy 88°. Below is the hazardous weather outlook for our area […]
Well, summer is definitely in full swing now with the warm and sticky air in place. We reached 85.6° yesterday with a feels like temp of 93 at 3 pm. The current temp is a warm 66° at 5 am. We and most of the neighborhood blew out the rest of our fireworks last night, […]
We have a warm and humid morning with 65° at 5 am. It will be a hot Independence Day except near Lake Michigan where water temperatures are still a bit cool. A haze in the sky from forest fire smoke will linger while a few clouds develop. Scattered showers or storms on Monday are most […]
July 4th I know that the NWS will have a post as to the records on July 4th (I will also toss some weather history for the local area) but what was the weather like on the day the declaration of independence was written. Thomas Jefferson recorded in his weather journal for July 4, […]
We have a great day in store for SW Michigan, in fact, much of the state will enjoy sunny skies, low humidity and comfortable temps. We have the whole the Fourth of July weekend with the expectation of sunny skies though the temps will progress higher each day. We enjoyed comfortable sleeping temps with an […]
We pulled through a soggy second half of June with multiple tornadoes in the state and exit the first half of the year into July and midsummer. Our rainfall total since March 1st is 13.47 inches of which 9 inches fell in June! Last year we had 16.87 inches during the same period of which […]
If you noticed an outage of the Weather Center yesterday the company I have for my web service had multiple outages in Michigan and other areas around the U.S. – all seems well now. We reached nine inches of rain for the month yesterday with the addition of .20 of an inch from showers passing […]
We had another .32 of an inch of rain yesterday to add to our total for the soggy second half of June which brings us to 8.8 inches for the month (these are Otsego totals). Humidity was the main factor for our rain yesterday with the soggy atmosphere driving rain into the area. Our high […]