Tag: climate

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.

You may have noticed we have an Elevated Layer of Smoke our skies over the western Great Lakes. The smoke is coming from Canada.

The smoke in the sky the past few days is coming from western and central Canada due to wildfires there.

The Latest Forecast Guidance Continues to Suggest Cooler than Normal Temperatures and Below Normal Precipitation most of the Remainder of May for the Great Lakes Area.

Over Southwest Michigan, May has largely been drier than normal and cooler than normal Overall the next two weeks will mostly be that way.

Cool and Wet into Tuesday, than mostly dry weather and becoming warmer than normal by the weekend and that is expected to continue into the 3rd week in May.

It may be cool today and tomorrow but warmer than normal temperatures are expected from this coming weekend through the 3rd week in May.

What is the risk of freeze over the next week or so? Put another way, when will it be safe (this spring) to start planting freeze sensitive plants over the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley?

Freezing low temperatures should be expected over Lower Michigan next week (first week of May)

More On The Summer Forecast for Southwest Michigan, this time looking at both monthly anomalies and the frequency of highs in the 90s

I am expecting this summer, in Southwest Michigan to be near normal to slightly warmer than normal in the mean temperature but the frequency of very hot days, highs of 90F or more is likely to be less than normal.