Yesterday we had a high of 79° before the clouds moved in from the southeast.
Our weather will be affected by TS Helene pushing clouds and moisture into southern Michigan. The pressure gradient between Helene and high pressure to our north will cause windy conditions today up the 40 mph range overnight. Rain chances increase south of Grand Rapids tomorrow though they will only amount to sprinkles or light showers.
WPC Forecast
Weather History
1942: Snowflakes fly across Lower Michigan as temperatures fall to the lower 30s and only rise into the 40s during the day.
2009: A microburst with winds up to 70 mph struck just northeast of Greenville in Montcalm County. About a dozen trees were downed and a travel trailer was tipped over.
On September 27, 1998, Flint experienced a record warm temperature of 86 degrees for the day.
NWS Forecast
Forecast Discussion
- Breezy and Mostly Dry Today The remnants of Helene will travel northwards into western Kentucky butting up against surface ridging over the northern Great Lakes. The pressure gradient over Lower Michigan will strengthen in response, resulting in breezy easterly winds this afternoon and evening. Strongest winds will be mainly near and south of I-96. 00z HREF ensemble mean gusts push into the 40 mph range this evening which may result in some isolated power outages. Mostly dry conditions expected today, then rain chances increase south of I-96 late in the day as a stalled upper low pivots south of the region. - Scattered showers continuing through Tuesday Stubborn/stalled upper low continues to spin south of Michigan through Monday so considerable clouds and scattered showers persisting, particularly south and east of GRR. A northern stream trough and associated cold front digs south into the GrtLks Rgn on Tuesday, bringing additional shower chances. - Dry Wednesday and Thursday A brief midweek cool down occurs behind the Tuesday cold front with temperatures dropping from highs in the mid 70s to the mid 60s for Wednesday. Dry weather and better potential for sunshine looks to prevail on Wed and Thur thanks to a sfc high which follows the cold front. Somewhat milder temps expected Thursday in the southerly return flow on the back side of that high.
My wife is still waiting to hear from her nice that lives in Tallahassee. I am sure she is alright, but it is always scary when a major storm hits.
Slim
Hopefully you hear from them soon.
Our family further south did alright. Some wind and sounds like quite of bit of rain, but nothing major to report of damage
The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 76/49 there was no rainfall the sun was out 62% of the time. For today the average H/L is 69/49 the record high of 86 was set in 1946 the coldest high of 47 was set in 1942 the record low of 29 was set in 1989 the warmest low of 65 was set in 1973 the most rainfall of 1.80” fell in 1911 the most snowfall reported was a trace in 1942.
Slim