Yesterday we had a trace of rainfall with a high temperature of 69° and a low of 49°. It is currently 41° at 6:00 am. Today will feature sunny skies and highs in the upper 60s with lows tonight in the low to mid 40’s.
September Summary
Here is the September monthly climate summary. It was significantly warmer than normal and considerably drier across most of our area.
Drought Conditions
According to the CPC, our drier-than-normal conditions will persist through October though it may ease towards the end of the month through December for the Great Lakes region.
Weather History
1880: A tornado cut a 15-mile-long path of destruction from southern Barry and Eaton Counties into northern Calhoun County. Two children were killed and several other people injured near Bellevue, when the tornado picked up a house and carried it 200 feet before it disintegrated. The roar of the tornado could be heard six miles away.
On October 2, 1963, thunderstorms in Wayne County brought winds of 63mph in the evening.
NWS Forecast
Forecast Discussion
- Fair and dry weather, warming into the end of the week Weak zonal upper level flow will dominate the pattern through the later half of the work week. Temperatures today will be around normal due to the passage of the cold front. Strong southerly flow will advect warm air into the region tonight into tomorrow bringing max temperatures back into the 70s on Thursday. That is around 10 degrees above normal. - Mostly Dry Weather through early Next Week Quiet weather continues next several days with model guidance in fair agreement for a only a couple chances for rain late this week into next weekend. These will occur with frontal passages on Friday morning and again late Saturday into Sunday. Neither event is forecast to have deeper moisture to work with across most of the forecast area so POPs are fairly low. Some elevated instability could result in some thunderstorms as well. High pressure overhead on Friday night and Monday night will bring clear skies and light winds. Scattered frost is a possibility on Saturday and Tuesday mornings with temperatures in the 30s possible.
Here is some information on the latest winter snowfall long range guess.
https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/winter-2024-2025-snowfall-predictions-update-more-snow-for-united-states-canada-less-europe-fa/
Slim
What? More snowfall? Who knew?!
The ranking for September 2024 it was the 2nd warmest at Muskegon, the 9 warmest at Grand Rapids the 10th warmest at Lansing. It was further down the list at Holland and Kalamazoo. It was the 3rd driest at Lansing other locations were much further down the list.
Slim
Definitely very dry September. And October isn’t looking any better.
The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 69/47 there was a trace of rainfall the highest wind gust was 29 MPH out of the NW the sun was out 36% of the possible time. For today the average H/L is 67/47 the record high of 87 was set in 1971 the coldest high of 44 was set in 1974. The record low of 27 was set in 1974 and the warmest low of 63 was set in 1974. The most rainfall of 1.75” fell in 2006. The overnight low so far here in MBY is 43 and that is… Read more »