We will see partly sunny skies today with much cooler temperatures in store. We saw less than a tenth of an inch of rain overnight. We haven’t had a decent rainfall for 20 days so it is getting a bit dry. According to the CPC, most of the rest of the month will be dry and warmer than normal. Yesterday’s high was 87° and the low was 53°.
Weather History
1881: Temperatures hit the mid and upper 90s as a four-day heat wave peaked across Lower Michigan. Lansing reached 97 degrees for their second record high in a row, both records that still stand.
On September 6, 1990, rush hour traffic came to a halt when an F1 tornado hit St. Clair County at 5:20 PM.
NWS Forecast
Today
Partly sunny, with a steady temperature around 64. North northwest wind 7 to 14 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with a low around 42. Northnorthwest wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Saturday
Sunny, with a high near 65. North wind 8 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with a low of around 42. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Sunday
Sunny, with a high near 70. West wind 5 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with a low of around 51.
Monday
Sunny, with a high near 78.
Monday Night
Clear, with a low of around 53.
Tuesday
Sunny, with a high near 85.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 55.
Wednesday
Sunny, with a high near 89.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 57.
Thursday
Sunny, with a high near 89.
Forecast Discussion
- Cooler with Lake Effect Showers Through Saturday A cold front continues to cross the area this morning with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms along it. The front will clear the area shortly after daybreak. 850mb temps fall near 0C by tonight leading to the development of lake effect clouds today. Isolated lake effect showers are possible along the lakeshore, best chance near Big Sable and Little Sable points, though northeast flow develops tonight associated with a land breeze keeping the best convergence offshore. This northeasterly flow much of Saturday combined with the departure of the trough may even make skies mostly sunny east of US131 Saturday. Trends will be monitored to see if this shift towards less lake effect clouds Saturday continues. - Moderating temps next week; quite warm by mid to late week Warm advection occurs on Sunday in the wake of the departing upper low and H8 temps recover to near 8C in westerly flow on the northern periphery of a large sfc high over srn IL/IN. The tight pressure gradient around the high should result in breezy conditions with gusts to 25 mph by afternoon. High temps near 70 expected Sunday well inland but temps should be held down in the 60s west of Hwy 131 and especially at the lakeshore due to the expected existence of cold, upwelled water in the nearshore waters from the preceding strong northerly flow event. The chilly water temps at the coast should recover fairly quickly next week however due to a few days of onshore flow which then turns southerly. Otherwise all of next week will be warm and dry thanks to an omega pattern aloft with upper lows over both wrn and ern Canada and a building upper ridge in between over the Midwest/GrtLks Rgn. Temps moderating early in the week, with highs in the 80s prevailing for the mid to late week period as H8 temps eventually warm to 15-18C.
Why bother…”rain” overnight was nothing more than a trace 🙁
An unexpected and welcome .7 inches of rain last night! Simply INCREDIBLE!
The talk of “lake effect clouds” isn’t something we have seen much of since last April/May. A little taste of fall this weekend, then back to summer next week. Pretty typical early fall pattern
I like this time of year. It will be 10 degrees below average this weekend and then rebound to 10 degrees above average for next week. And let’s not forget about football season. ESPN Gameday will be in AA tomorrow.
It was a warm early fall day yesterday with a H/L of 86/55. There was 0.26” of rainfall the sun was out 73% of the time. For today the average H/L is now down to 77/57 the record high of 97 was set in 1954 the coldest high of 62 was set in 1944 the record low of 36 was set in 1962 the warmest low of 73 was set in 1922 and 1893. The record rainfall of 1.67” fell in 1985.
Slim
The overnight low so far and the current temperature is 55. At this time the sky is clear with that 55.
Slim