Yesterday’s high was 77° and the low was 66°. We had 1.59 inches of rain from the current system which will gradually move out of the state today. Our total for the month is at 3.10 inches and 12.31 inches for meteorological summer. The CPC is guessing a dry conclusion for August with below-normal precipitation and above-normal temperatures. Our normal highs are in the upper 70s.
CPC Outlook
Weather History
1943: Autumn is in the air with record cool temperatures of 41 degrees at Grand Rapids and 43 degrees at Muskegon.
1955: West Michigan is in the midst of another heat wave with Grand Rapids setting a record high of 97 degrees, helping this become the second hottest August on record there.
On August 18, 1914, 3.73 inches of rain fell in Saginaw. This is the second-highest daily total to be recorded in Saginaw in August. The highest is 6.93 inches, which fell on August 10, 2012.
NWS Forecast
Forecast Discussion
- Showers/scattered storms today, then dryer and less humid Latest surface analysis shows low pressure over eastern Ontario with water vapor imagery depicting a similar location for the upper low. Minor short waves were seen in the water vapor rotating around the upper low and these are progd to move across the eastern cwa today. Today will be the last we see of rain for much of the upcoming week and will be similar to yesterday...just a bit farther east. Instability this afternoon will be less than the last few days but 500-700 j/kg MUCAPE will be enough to support a few non severe storms as we go through the peak heating of the afternoon. Look for an uptick in showers/storms beginning early afternoon mainly east of US-131. The precipitation will wane during the evening as atmospheric stability increases and the influence of the upper low decreases as it moves east. High pressure will begin to move in tonight as drier air advects south from Canada. Today will be another humid day as dewpoints will remain around 70, but will fall into the 50s by Monday morning. Clearing skies tonight will lead to partly sunny skies Monday. - Below normal temps into Wednesday, warming trend starts Thursday Decent agreement amongst the models exists with keeping a deep northerly flow across the region through Wednesday. As a result relatively cooler air from Canada will funnel down into the Great Lakes region during this time. Ensemble temperature plots are fairly tight so decent confidence on the cooler than normal temperatures exist. A positively tilted mid level ridge approaches from the west Thursday and tracks through the area on Friday. Based on this, a warming trend will develop and above normal temperatures may arrive by Friday. Nearly all ensemble members show no QPF so we will keep the Tuesday through Friday period dry.
The landscape appreciated yesterday’s rain.
I went on a bus trip to Detroit yesterday and seen the Tigers play the Yankees yesterday. The weather was much better than I thought it would be. In fact it was very good for the game with just some light mist falling near the start of the game and the sun came out. The Tigers won the game 4 to 0. On the trip home there were some heavy thunderstorms near Lansing and there was a nice rainbow at the rest area we stopped at. All in all, a great day.
Slim
The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 79/67 there was 0.14” of rainfall the sun was out 26% of the time. For today the average H/L is 81/61 the record high of 97 was set in 1947 the coldest high of 62 was set in 1950 the record low of 41 was set in 1943 the warmest low of 75 was set in 1947 The record rainfall of 1.73” fell in 1950.
Slim
Final 2 day rain total! 1.75 inches! Incredible!