Weather History
1928: A tornado destroyed several cottages along Bostwick Lake, about ten miles northeast of Grand Rapids.
On May 4, 2018, a strong cold front led to a line of severe thunderstorms over southern Lower Michigan as well as strong winds not associated with thunderstorms that resulted in power outages for 300,000 customers across Southeast Michigan. Bad Axe recorded a gust of 68 mph while the Tri-Cities Airport (MBS) and Detroit Metro Airport (DTW) recorded gusts of 63 and 61 mph, respectively.
On May 4, 2012, 3.23″ of rain fell in the predawn hours, making it the wettest day that Flint has ever recorded in May. Unfortunately for many Flint residents, the previous record was set only hours earlier on the night of May 3rd. The storm total rainfall of 5.62″ inundated the Flint area. The severe flooding that ensued prompted firefighters to use to boats to help residents from their homes and resulted in localized evacuations and a shutdown of a stretch of Interstate 75, which was reported to be submerged by 4 feet of floodwater. The heavy rain also caused the Swartz River in Flint to rise to a record stage of 9.76 feet.
Forecast Discussion
- Unsettled through Tuesday Low pressure over western KY will remain to the south today and short waves rotating around it will push rain north into the cwa. Today will be one of those days in which rain develops over the southeast cwa first and moves northwest throughout the day. Those in the northern cwa might see a generally dry day, while locations such as Jackson may see light rain develop around noon. Without a strong kicker aloft, the cutoff low isn`t going to be quick to move north and may take until Tuesday to do so. Models show the associated surface low moving north over the eastern cwa Tuesday. Thus, we`ll be in a showery environment for the next couple of days. QPF might be substantial over the southeast cwa with 1.5-1.8 inches of rain possible through Monday night. Contrastingly, the northwest cwa likely will receive less than a tenth of an inch through the same period. Some thunder is possible over the eastern cwa Monday night and Tuesday, but overall instability is fairly low. - Dry and warmer mid to late week Once the upper low gets kicked east midweek, ridging will move over the Great Lakes and mainly dry and warmer conditions are expected. Highs today will range from the mid 50s near Jackson to mid 60s near Baldwin, but mid 70s are expected across the cwa by Wednesday. Above normal temperatures in the mid 70s will continue through next weekend.
Another below normal temp day! Talk about a cool weekend! Day after day after day with below normal temps! Wow!
I usually consider the nice weather season to start around the second week of May… looks on track this year. Starting mid-late week and beyond we have lots of 70s and sun coming. Almost there!
I would agree with that. It largely stays nice through the first week or two of October then cools off. Won’t be long and we will be talking a winter forecast again.
The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 59/41 there was no rainfall. For today the average H/L is 66/44 the record high of 88 was in 1949 the coldest high of 43 was in 1903 the record low of 26 was in 1971 the warmest low of 68 was in 1949. The most rainfall of 1.06” was in 1902 the most snowfall of 0.4” was in 1954. The overnight low here in MBY was a cool 40 the temperature here at 8:45 AM is 50 with clear skies.
Slim
What do you know? Yesterday was yet another below normal temp day! It looks like by the middle to end of next week we will finally see a good stretch of decent weather, a little more sun and temps in the 70’s!