The sun will finally break through the clouds for a mostly sunny and pleasant day with temperatures in the low 70s. Yesterday afternoon we had a thunderstorm pop up over Otsego which gave us .38 of an inch of rain. This gives us a total of 1.16 inches for the week, 4.1 inches for the month, and 11.43 inches for the spring which should be our final totals as no rain is expected tomorrow.
NWS Forecast
Weather History
1972: A tornado damaged a building under construction five miles west of Jackson.
1989: A tornado struck Van Buren County, moving from east of South Haven to south of Pearl. Several grain elevators were destroyed and windows were blown out of buildings.
On May 30, 1953, In the Detroit area, Softball size hail was recorded.
1879: A significant outbreak of severe weather occurred in Kansas and western Missouri. In Kansas, tornadoes killed eighteen persons at Delphos and thirty persons at Irving. Two tornadoes struck the town of Irving within a few minutes virtually wiping the small Kansas community off the map. The second tornado was perhaps two miles wide and exhibited multiple vortices.
1927: The Kentucky River peaks during a massive flood that killed 89 people and left thousands homeless. Torrential rains caused this unprecedented flood.
1988: Memorial Day heralded heavy snow in some of the mountains and higher passes of Wyoming, closing roads in Yellowstone Park. McDonald Pass, Montana was blanketed with eight inches of snow, while the temperature at Miles City, Montana soared to 94 degrees.
Forecast Discussion
-Mild and cooler continues The only major weather concern through Friday will be the chance for patchy frost early Friday morning. While temperatures will be slightly warmer, the winds will be calmer and the air mass will be drier. Due to the lower dewpoints and calmer winds, temps will have an easier time to drop down into the upper 30s. Any possible frost will be along and north of the US 10 corridor. As any frost that does form will be in the low lying areas and fairly isolated, do not foresee any headline issuance. Dry air continues to move into the region as a positively tilted trough exits into the mid Atlantic. An upper level ridge continues to build over Lower Michigan with high pressure dominating the pattern through Friday. Expect below normal temperatures today and tonight with temps just above normal by Friday. - Low to Medium confidence in timing of shortwave features in progressive flow regime Fairly good agreement that a southern Plains low tracks northeast and brings rain chances on Saturday with highest POPs to the south. Model soundings show instability is quite limited so only slight chance thunder. Guidance envelope shows some spread in the details after this weekend with a weak signal for rain late Monday and a stronger signal on Wednesday/Thursday as a better-defined short wave trough or cut off low approaches from the Northern Plains.
The latest CPC continues to rock with near to below normal temps for weeks on end! How
Is that possible! Rock n roll will live forever baby!!!
I am in a great mood today! Perfect weather temps around 70 degrees, low humidity and yet another below normal temp days! Great day to be alive! WOW, wow, wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Almost every day in May has been 70-85 degrees. It’s been ideal.
Too funny!
The only funny thing was your prediction of a cold May LOL
More lies and fake news! Some things never change!
The overnight low here in MBY and at he airport was 45 at the current time it is clear here and 50. That 45 was the coldest low since May 12th the low for May so far is 40 and that 40 is 4th warmest low for any May at Grand Rapids. The warmest is 46 in 1922 it was 43 in 1998 and a reported 41 in 1896.
Slim
The official H/L yesterday was 71/52 there was no rainfall, the sun was out 59% of the time. For today the average H/L is 75/54 the record high of 92 was set in 1919 the record low of 34 was set in 1965 and 1996. The most rainfall of 1.91” fell in 1989. Last year the high was a hot 90 and the low was 55.
Slim
Gorgeous morning. I love these cool nights and warm days. No furnace needed in more than a month and only needed the A/C a couple of days. I’m certain that Slim will provide us with a recap of meteorological spring but from my perspective, it has been fantastic.
I will take a look later today but this has been a warm spring and yes we are now in the “don’t have to” time of the year.
Slim
The below normal temp days just keep coming! Today will be yet another below normal temp day! Incredible despite the constant warm weather hype!