After a long dry spell, we took a big chunk out of our rain deficit yesterday. We had 1.02 inches which brings us to 1.85 inches for the month most of it falling this week. Yesterday’s high temp was 56.5° and a low of 46°. We currently have 46° at 7:30. We have the promise […]
We saw three or four briefs peaks of the sun yesterday though it didn’t warm up the air much. Our high temp was 58.5° and the low was 52.5°. Yesterday was mainly dry with the exception of some early morning showers and then the rain moving back in again after midnight. Rainfall total this morning […]
With the changing of the seasons comes the cloudy, cool and soggy air right on cue. We had .59 of an inch of rain yesterday which brings us to .79 of an inch for the month. Our high temperature yesterday was 74° which was just after midnight, our low was 57°. We expect another cloudy […]
Changes are in the air (literally). We have a warm 72° this morning at 5:30 – enjoy it because it is only going downwards from here. We had .04 of an inch of rain yesterday which brings us to .20 for the month with promises of more today. The higher amounts of precip will fall […]
Yesterday we had a high temp of 86°! Though not uncommon this was a sign summer has not been willing to give up its grasp on us this September. Now it is abundantly clear we have seen the last of our warm and dry month come to an end with the remnants of tropical depression […]
We have enjoyed a long summer with warm temps and lots of dry and sunny days. The autumnal equinox begins this week on the 22nd and our weather pattern will cooperate with temps dropping into the 60s, which after sweltering in the 80s for so long this will feel cold to some. This is the […]
Floods of 1986 While it has been somewhat dry this year this week post is about a September that was very wet and caused some of the worst flooding in central Michigan’s history. This month marks the 35th anniversary of the Great Flood of 1986, an incredible weather event that was described as “Michigan’s greatest […]
We have had tendencies towards warm and dry conditions in SW Michigan which may or may not continue into October. Seems outlook maps change almost daily from the CPC. The warmer than normal outlooks have been spot on however the guesses for wetter than normal conditions seem to have fallen by the wayside. Temperature outlooks […]
We have 48° this morning at 7:30. Yesterday’s high temp was 75° with a low of 53°. We have had only .16 of an inch of rain so far this month as hit and miss showers and frontal systems have pretty much avoided our area and most of Allegan County. Our last decent rain was […]
Allegan County was left high and dry once again yesterday. We had a high temp of 87° with a 72° dewpoint and a low of 64°. Today we will have a more comfortable airmass in place with mostly sunny skies and highs in the mid-70s. Sunrise today is 7:23 and sunset is 7:52 pm. Weather […]