Month: June 2023

I wanted to add more depth to what I wrote yesterday. The question I want to address is how much rain do we actually need to end this drought? You may be supersized by how much rain it would take!

To end our current drought over southern Michigan we would need around 6 inches of rain by the end of July. This is near record totals for July at most of our climate sites. It would seem unlikely given our current weather pattern we would get that much widespread rainfall. So while we do expect more rain in the next month than the previous month, the expected rainfall will likely fall short of ending this drought.

After nearly 2 months of very limited rainfall, our area (Southwest Michigan) finally had around an inch of rain between the 25th and 26th of June. My blog below will look at the impact of that on our drought and the forecast going forward for the next 2 week to see if we will have a mitigation of our current drought.

Our current drought and it’s impacts continue across Michigan, this blog looks at what is happening now and then what we should expect going forward into mid July.

Rain is on the way for Sunday into Tuesday, this will help our developing drought over Lower Michigan but it likely will not be enough to end it.

It’s been unusually dry is Lower Michigan since early May, this is expected to change by Sunday.

A Very Dry May is Expected to be Followed by a Not all the Wet June over Southern Lower Michigan (at least through mid June)

May in Southwest Michigan was one of the top 10 driest on Record, the fist half of June is not expected to be all that much wetter.