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 […]
Yesterday was a nice respite from the rain, we had a couple of brief showers but the sun made an appearance which was a sight for sore eyes. I managed to get some grass cut with my lawn tractor, I wouldn’t have liked to try it with a regular push mower as it was pretty […]
We had some very active weather yesterday afternoon into the early evening with squall lines and spin-up tornadoes, something we haven’t seen in several years. The first tornado was near the town of Sylvester in Mecosta County and the second just west and north of Lake Odessa in Ionia County. The NWS crews will be […]
July I must wonder just were the time goes as July is just around the corner. This is how an English travel site describes Michigan weather for July. “July is usually the hottest month of the year in Michigan. The average high temperatures are in the hot 76°F (24.4°C) to 85°F (29.4°C) range, while nights are […]
We have definitely moved out of our dry weather pattern having tapped into a good supply of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and a slow-moving meandering frontal boundary. Chances of rain are 100% today with rainfall amounts in the two to three-inch range. We have had 1.12 inches thus far from this event in […]