Sault Ste Marie
The week before Labor Day we were up in Sault Ste Marie on the Ontario side. One of the days we were there the temperature was 86. That is very warm for the Sault. So, I was wondering just how often it gets hot up in the Sault area. Well for the most part not that often. The current 30-year average of 90° or better days at Sault Ste Marie Michigan is 1 a year and that is the number of 90° this year. Many years they do not have any. But in 1921 The Sault area had it greatest heat wave. One that even us in SW Michigan have not had a many years.
The average H/L in July at Sault Ste Mare is 76/54. In 1921 starting on June 26 and running to July 13 the Sault had 12 days with highs of 90 or better one day at 79 and one day at 87. There were two nights with lows of 70 or better. This heat wave had 8 days in a row of 90 or better with one day at 98 four days of 94 two days two days at 92 and one day at 91. After a brief two-day cool down when highs were 87 and 79 there were four more days with highs of 90,93,92 and 92 again. Overnight lows were mostly in the upper 60’s with two nights with lows of 70 and 71. The last time Grand Rapids had a similar heat wave was in 2020 when GR had 8 days in a row of 90 or better in July.
It is getting rather dry in much of the central part of the nation. Here in MBY the grass is turning brown. I watered the grass yesterday that is something I usually don’t do in September. The official H/L yesterday was 86/57 there was once again no rainfall the sun was out 75% of the time. For today the average H/L is 75/54 the record high of 95 was set in 1939 the coldest high of 54 was set in 1996 and 1970. The record low was a frosty 31 in 1899 and the warmest low of 73 was set in 1939. The most rainfall of 2.15” fell in 1993.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
300 AM EDT SAT SEP 14 2024
KEY MESSAGES
– FAIR AND VERY WARM WEATHER THIS WEEKEND AND NEXT WEEK
DISCUSSION
ISSUED AT 300 AM EDT SAT SEP 14 2024
– FAIR AND VERY WARM WEATHER THIS WEEKEND AND NEXT WEEK
RIDGING AT THE SFC AND ALOFT WILL CONTINUE TO BRING FAIR AND VERY
MILD WX THROUGH THE WEEKEND. WE EXPECT NOTHING MORE THAN SOME SCT
TO BKN HIGH CLOUD COVER TODAY AS SUGGESTED BY THE 00Z HREF.
THE 00Z HREF SHOWS POTENTIAL FOR FAIRLY EXTENSIVE LOW CLOUD COVER
OFF OF LAKE HURON AND LAKE ERIE OVER OUR EASTERN FCST AREA EARLY
THIS MORNING BUT THIS CONTINUES TO LOOK OVERDONE AS WINDS ARE AOB
5 KTS OUT OF THE EAST. SOME PATCHY FOG IS EXPECTED PARTICULARLY
ACROSS OUR EASTERN FCST AREA EARLY THIS MORNING. HIGH TEMPS TODAY
WILL ONCE AGAIN REACH WELL INTO THE MID TO PERHAPS UPPER 80S WITH
MUCH OF THE SAME AGAIN FOR TOMORROW.
MID TO UPPER LEVEL RIDGING WILL CONTINUE TO BRING MORE OF THE
SAME WITH VERY WARM WX THROUGH THE UPCOMING WEEK WITH NO
PRECIPITATION. HIGH TEMPS WILL CONTINUE TO REACH THE 80S DAILY.
Slim…my parents were up at the Soo during that time…state side and it had been a bit cool, rainy and windy before the time you got up there. Lol.