We reached 87° yesterday with .05 of an inch of rain which gives us .25 of an inch for the month.
The topical storm outlook from the National Hurricane Center remains fairly quiet once again. The Atlantic Ocean has no tropical storm formation forecast over the next five days. The Eastern Pacific has two disturbances well off the coast of Mexico which have a 20 to 30% chance of forming tropical storms and the Central Pacific also remains quiet. There are no tropical storm warnings in the northwest Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
It has also been fairly quiet in Michigan with the lack of storms. We haven’t had much more than a few rumbles of thunder in the state. Most of Lower Michigan is in at least a moderate drought. West-central Lower Michigan is experiencing a severe drought. Such dry conditions are leading to elevated wildfire potential requiring vigilant fire prevention.
The rainfall over the last few days was not a drought buster but should keep conditions from getting worse for at least a week or two. Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms are possible this afternoon and evening with another round of showers possible on Saturday. We need to pick up several inches of rain to break the drought however according to long-range forecasts, conditions around the state will remain drier than normal over much of the rest of the month.
Today rain chances remain around 20% for the lakeshore counties and 30% west of 131. It will remain hot and humid with heat indices near 95 with a light breeze. Tomorrow rain chances increase to 40%. After that system moves out we will enter another dry period for next week.
Forecast Discussion
- Showers and storms remain in the forecast Today-Saturday Showers and storms remain in the forecast for today, tonight and Saturday. The activity will be diurnally driven, so the main activity will be found in the afternoon and evening hours of today and Saturday. Today, the main location that will see showers/storms appears to be across Central Lower Michigan. Central into Northern Lower Michigan seems to be a focus area as lake breeze convergence off of Lakes Michigan and Huron may be maximized in this area. Some scattered to isolated activity is certainly possible across the rest of the forecast area, but the main activity will occur across our northern two rows of counties. Shear remains very week to non existent, so no severe weather is expected again. Lightning and locally heavy rains are the main threat. The showers/storms will fade after sunset like they have the last several days. On Saturday, we finally have more of a trigger in place with a cold front moving in from the west into a very humid atmosphere. The HREF shows more bullish/stronger activity on Saturday in almost all areas. The exception may be right along the lakeshore where a shadow seems to be in place. Elsewhere, showers and storms will be likely in the afternoon hours. Severe weather may be a reach on Saturday despite the front as shear remains relatively weak. - Mainly dry the remainder of the forecast I could see potentially needed to add some more in the way of showers to the forecast in the Sunday night into Monday time frame as a shortwave is forecast to be moving south through the area. At this point though we have a mainly dry forecast given a dry profile in model data. Envision the models becoming more moist with time. At this point we have some spotty 20 percent pops in the forecast. Otherwise high pressure will dominate into next week and will result in dry weather. - Cooler and less humid next week A cooler and more seasonable airmass will settle in for next week. The other noticeable change will be much less humid air. Dew points will drop in the north winds and then under high pressure mid week. Folks not liking the humid air of the last several days will like next week much more. Highs will trend back into the upper 70s for mid next week.
Feels great outside the heat and humidity has broke nice night for a fire now ….Did GR officially hit 90* degrees today asking of a friend???
Phew Lol!! …INDY
Yep it did!!
https://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KGRR.html
That huge system broke in 1/2 right over me.. Not one drop on my home but poured in
Charlotte and Holt .. Up in Lansing and down in Jackson. Soooo frustrated… trying to not take this personally.. LOL 🙂
That was a “near miss”. The edge of the storms to our East just blew through Cascade Twp, dry, but dark and gusty.
The outflow came through and the temp dropped 20 degrees.
93 here currently. Just brutal. Hoping those thundershowers hold together and reach here.
Does no one have sprinklers for their lawn in this group? My lawn looks so lush and green with all this sunshine and heat. Flowers and bushes look to be at least a few weeks ahead of schedule this year too.
This HEAT just won’t quit. We should be more than +7 degrees above average for June after today.
We’re at +8.7 here for the month through yesterday.
The warmest June at Lansing was in 2005 with a June mean of 72.7 and this year with a current mean 74.1 of is running warmer than that year. For some reason the warmest June’s at Grand Rapids (1919, 1933. 1921 ect) are several degrees cooler at Lansing. I do not know if they reporting location at Lansing has changed but I do know that back in the 1960’s and 70’s Lansing had night time lows that got much cooler than some other areas.
Slim
Capital City Airport is much smaller than GR Ford, and it’s NW of town. Maybe less concrete and more rural has something to do with that?
The case can be made that this is one of the warmest starts to June at Grand Rapids. While there may be more the only years that I have found with a warmer start to any June at Grand Rapids are 1933 and 1934. 1933 had a cool period from June 12 to the 18th before getting very warm again. That month ended up with a mean of 74.0 (+5.1) in 1934 the month started off with 5 very hot days with highs of 102, 95, 96, 92 and 92. the rest of the month seen several ups and downs.… Read more »
I don’t trust temp comparisons from the 1930’s, especially with the dust bowl influencing things.
Here in Grand Rapids in past summers very warm years when June’s mean temperature was much above average (1919, 1933, 1921,1934, 2005, 1923,1987 ect) had warm July’s while not all but most had cooler temperatures in August.
Slim
It looks like we may have another 90-degree day today. At least we will get a bit of a reprieve over the next week with temps back into the 80s and maybe a day or two in the high 70s.
So far officially Lansing has only recorded 0.13″ of rain this month that is after just 1.20″ in May. I would say that Lansing is overdue for some rain.
Slim
My lawn and nearby fields would agree. It’s a dust bowl.
No rain to report from my house. The overnight low here was 69 and it looks like the official low at the airport should be 68. At this time it is a warm 73 here with a DP of 68. I know there are some people who do not like this humid weather but working outside at night it is not been bad at all in the shade. Of course if one is in the sun that is a different story. But it looks like there will be a “cool” down next week for a while at that will give… Read more »
Hot and humid is right! Hit 91 yesterday afternoon with a heat index of 95. We also added 3 one hundredths of an inch of rain keeping the drought rolling. Whoever was posting back at the beginning of the week about no hot air in sight this week was just a few miles off.