After today it appears we will enter into another extended period of mainly dry conditions. We have some rain and snow showers moving through the central lower this morning though it will not amount to much, just a hundredth of an inch or so. We have had .92 of an inch for the month here at the station.
The region will see temperatures mostly in the mid to upper 30s to start the day. Conditions will dry out from west to east from late morning into the early afternoon. Cooler temperatures are expected for the remainder of the week with some locations seeing a chance of overnight frost.
Pollen counts will be lower today with the moisture in the area, but tomorrow they will zip right back up to high counts.
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…and from our friends at WOODTV, last nights “Preparing for the Big One”
Forecast Discussion
-- Rain and snow today with breezy conditions -- The latest radar and satellite imagery shows the upper low complex well over the state early this morning. The center of the main low is dropping south toward Saginaw Bay, while a trough from the low extends to the WSW. The showers on the radar shows this nicely. This precipitation will pass through the area through today, lingering longer closer to the low toward Lansing and Jackson. P- types look to be mainly rain for western areas, while eastern areas will see some snow initially with the coldest air aloft with the low. We continue to think that a dusting of snow will be possible on the grassy areas across interior portions of Central Lower. Elsewhere, any snow that falls should melt almost immediately. As the low and trough rotate east, the air will warm enough, along with any diurnal boost to change everything to rain by this afternoon. The rain should then end by rush hour for the U.S.-127 corridor. -- Mostly dry this weekend with small chances of rain -- High pressure will build in for Friday, bringing drier air to the whole area. Temperatures will drop enough tonight/Friday morning to bring some frost to the area. As mentioned in the previous discussion, coordination with local agriculture experts show the only impacts at this time would be a freeze for the fruit areas closer to the lakeshore. We do not see that happening tonight, so we will not issue any headlines. Temperatures will be a few degrees warmer on Friday with a bit more of sunshine, and not as cold of an air mass. The best chances for some rain this weekend will be over inland areas on Saturday afternoon/evening, and over the far SE portion of the area Sunday afternoon. Most of the time this weekend, it will not be raining. The rain showers on Saturday will result from weak troughing aloft over the area, combining with some diurnal instability. The upper ridge over the area Friday night will move east by Saturday. A short wave trough passes by to our south, but an extension of this will move across Lower MI also. There will be just enough lift and instability with this, especially with daytime heating adding to the instability. It would be just a few spotty showers away from the lake, where the wind off of the lake will squash the instability just enough. The best chance of rain on Sunday, will be SE of GRR in the afternoon. Forecast surface maps show a weak sfc low/trough out ahead of the upper trough coming in across the Srn Great Lakes again. Just enough instability once again with a diurnal boost, and the weak focus available. -- Continued cool next week with multiple chances of precipitation -- The work week next week does look to start out dry with a weak area of ridging moving through. This will be short lived as the long wave upper air pattern will be one that is generally from the NW. This pattern will be conducive to short waves coming through, and bringing a couple of frontal waves through. The first one will come through Monday night and the first half of Tuesday. The leading edge of the precipitation will start out as rain, but has a decent potential to change to snow on the backside of it as 850 mb temps drop to around -8C. We will see some short wave ridging build in for late Tue through much of the day on Wed. Another system will then drop down into the area late on Wed, much in the same fashion as the Mon night system. The leading edge of precipitation will likely be rain, with it changing over to some snow for much of the area. The details in timing and p-type will likely fluctuate a little by the time we get to that period.
GREAT SCOTTY 42* DEGREES IN MY AREA DID WE EVEN HOT 45* DEGREES TODAY ASKING A FRIEND??? LOL…INDY
Yes a very COLD day and most nights the next week or so will be down around freezing! Incredible cold!
Funny. Last night was about 3 degrees below average and everyone goes ape. Yet last week we were 25 degrees over average and no big deal. Feels like any other April day. Except the grass is growing out of control and has been mowed twice already.
Furnace running and salter trucks on the road this morning ohhh my!! APRIL 15th today crazzzzy…INDY
Here are the facts: based on the CPC and all of the models we are in a very long stretch of below normal temps! The rest of April will be cold, so get used to it!
So 50’s & 60’s are considered cold now??? If it is I’m already used to that!
https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/b4ea0280869baa46799dc75eacef8904785ec43ad2f6fb098355fbc208a55e2c
Well just like the other 2 they consider 50’s and 60’s a blaze of glory lol….Andy get out the Sprites tonight and watch the Tigers winn again Go Tigers …INDY
Lol!! Gotcha INDY!! Helping my buddy with his poolside Tiki Bar tonight! There will be sprites!!
Feels more like Winter not Spring! Incredible cold!
Nice Spring day. Maybe ANDY is golfing today? Meanwhile back to reality and bring it on! Incredible!
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=gfs&p=sn10_acc&rh=2021041506&fh=384&r=conus&dpdt=&mc=
I’ll be golfing this weekend again!! Seventh weekend in a row of great golfing weather!
OUTSTANDING!! Still waiting for the tons of cold and snow you’ve be telling us to take to the bank since the end of February! Don’t really think a trace equals tons!!
https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/b4ea0280869baa46799dc75eacef8904785ec43ad2f6fb098355fbc208a55e2c
added WOODTVs video from last night…
That video is very interesting.
Slim
Light rain is falling here with a temperature of 38. The overnight low both here and officially was 34. The length of daylight today is about the same as on August 26th The record high for today of 84 was set in back 2002 and again in 2003. In the last 20 years the high today has been 80 or better. Then starting in 2018 it has been cold on this date. In 2018 the high of 35 is the record cold maximum for any April 15th and there was a inch of snow on the ground that day, then… Read more »
No 80’s today just 15 16 degrees below average!! Feels like February far from mid April standers. ….INDY
36 and very light rain at this time. We are in the midst of a good stretch of weather for the lawn. Speaking of the lawn, I need to mow again already.