With the boating season now started here is some information on small craft advisories. June weather lore and summer time frost and freezes.
A Small Craft Advisory is issued by coastal and Great Lakes Weather Forecast Offices for areas included in the Coastal Waters Forecast or Nearshore Marine Forecasts.
Thresholds governing the issuance of small craft advisories are specific to geographic areas. A Small Craft Advisory may also be issued when sea or lake ice exists that could be hazardous to small boats.
While there is no precise definition of a small craft, any vessel that may be adversely affected by Small Craft Advisory criteria should be considered a small craft. Other considerations include the experience of the vessel operator, and the type, overall size, and sea worthiness of the vessel.
Eastern United States from (ME to SC, including Lake Erie and Lake Ontario)
Sustained winds or frequent gusts ranging between 25 and 33 knots (except 20 to 25 knots, lower threshold area dependent, to 33 knots for harbors, bays, etc.) and/or seas or waves 5 to 7 feet and greater, area dependent.
Central United States from (MN to OH on the Great Lakes)
Sustained winds or frequent gusts between 22 and 33 knots inclusive, and/or seas or waves greater than 4 feet.
For the fun of it here is some weather lore for June.
Weather Lore Sayings For The Month of June:
- If June is sunny, the harvest will come early.
- In June, when there is no dew, it indicates rain.
- A cold and wet June spoils the rest of the year.
- June, damp and warm, does a farmer no harm.
- A good rain in June sets all in tune.
- The north wind in June blows in a good rye harvest.
- An early harvest is expected when the bramble blossoms early in June.
- When it is hottest in June, it will be coldest in the correlating days of the following February.
- A wet June makes a dry September.
- If on the 8th of June it rains, it foretells a wet harvest.
- If it rains on the feast of St. Medard (June 8th), it will rain forty days later; but if it rains on St. Prottis (June 19th), it will rain for the next forty days.
- Rain on St. Barnabas’ Day (June 11) is good for grapes.
- If St. Vitus’s Day (June 15) be rainy weather, it will rain for thirty days together.
- If Midsummer Day (June 24) be ever so little rainy, the hazel and walnut will be scarce; corn smitten in many places; but apples, pears, and plums will not be hurt.
- Cut your thistles before St. John (June 24), and you will have two instead of one.
- If it rains on June 27th, it will rain for seven weeks.
- If it rains on St. Peter’s Day (June 29), the bakers will have to carry double flour and single water; if dry, they will carry single flour and double water.
- Rain on Peter and Paul (June 29) will rot the roots of the rye.
- Calm weather in June sets corn in tune.
There still appears to be a good chance that much if not all of June 2022 might be cooler than average in the Great Lakes area. Cool periods have happened in the summer time in the past in fact In In the interior of Norther Lower Michigan some locations have had lows of below 30 in all 12 months of the year. Some locations where that has occurred are Gaylord, Pellston, Houghton Lake. In Alpena only July has it not gotten below 30. At Traverse City it has gotten to 32 or colder in all 12 months. Even in Lansing it has gotten below 32 in every month of the year. This information is from the NWS records. So, while it can get hot and humid here in Michigan it also can get rather cold on some summer nights.
Slim
The CPC still shows below normal temps well into mid June! Wow just wow!
CPC showing some nice warm temps the back half of June now!
So far, June is warmer than average in most parts of southern Lower Michigan. Completely average in GR which is again one of the cooler spots relative to average. Hmmm
You have been saying this since March I must say now I don’t believe you sorry …..INDY
The CPC’s long range guess on their week 3/4 guess have much of the northern US with a 50 to 55% chance of above average temperatures. The first 3 days of June have been Above average the most at Lansing +3.3. Saginaw +1.7. Detroit +1.1. Alpena +0.9. Kalamazoo +0.4. Below average at The Sault -3.4. Muskegon -2.7. Holland -1.7. Houghton Lake -1.3. Marquette -1.4. Battle Creek -0.8 and then Grand Rapids at 0.0. Lansing is the warmest compared to average and The Sault is the most below average. But that is with just a small 3 day sample.
Slim
His warm weather bias is ridiculous!
There were several locations up north that did indeed cold enough for some frost. The low at Grayling was a reported 28, at Pellston 31 at Cadillac 33. For Pellston that low of 31 would tie 1965 for the 6th coldest low for the date there. The record low there is 25 set in 1964. It was 27 in 2009, 29 in 2004 and 30 in 2013.
Slim
I used to go up to Douglas Lake near Pellston after school was out with my friend’s family when I was a kid. Chilly mornings like this, his dad would get us up very early and said the pike would be biting – and he was right. We would catch a bunch every morning when it was in the 30s or 40s.
Yesterdays official H/L at Grand Rapids was 76/50 there was a trace of rain fall early in the day. The clouds broke up and there was 85% of possible sunshine. The overnight low both here at my house and officially at GRR was 47. The average H/L for today is 76/55 the record high is 93 set in 1925 and the record low is 32 set in 1945. That is the latest last low of 32 at Grand Rapids. Last year the H/L was 87/64 and that was the start of a 10-day period of much above average days. There… Read more »
Furnace just kicked on again 44 out in my hood with theses cold morning lows so much for lake Michigan warming up anytime soon…wow ..INDY
Walked outside without a coat this morning, what a shock – 43 degrees, brrrr.
Incredible June cold!
I wouldn’t call it incredible. We had five nights last June with lows in the 40s, including three during the 21st – 23rd.
Yeahhh crazy just told the wife we will start shutting the windows at night she said isnt it June ?? Lol… INDY
50 here and it feels great. I think it got down to 48 here. 34 is the record low, so a long way from that.
Big cats and now bears. This what happens when man shrinks their habitat.
https://www.wilx.com/2022/06/03/natural-fear-humans-black-bear-sighted-clinton-county/
Wow.
Slim
That’s very close to where I do my afternoon or evening hikes back on the nature trails in the state game area. Guess I better keep my eyes out.
Very cold start to June! The below normal temp pattern rocks! Let’s keep it going all summer!
You are so funny. GR is perfectly average for June so far at 0.0 and Lansing is at +3.2.
This week will destroy the temp averages! Get ready!