After a sunny, lovely morning, our skies have become dark and strong thunderstorms have been moving across the state since about 4 PM. We haven’t received anything yet but a few sprinkles so far. Looking at the radar, it doesn’t seem to me that what’s coming our way is anything but heavy rain. Some areas affected so far have reported hail as large as baseballs. I’m also hearing of trees down and power outages in the mid portions of the…
Today has been gorgeous with mostly clear skies, a nice breeze, and comfortable temps. This weather will continue overnight, but changes are coming tomorrow. Forecasts are calling for strong thunderstorms and heavy rain late tomorrow until around midnight. Severe weather is a real possibility. We have large branches laying in our yard from the storms last Saturday when we got almost 2 inches of rain. The extended forecast for September looks very nice with temps in the 80s much of…
Today has been sunny and quite warm. Highs near 80°F were forcasted and that’s what we have. The humidity is quite low making for a beautiful early September day. Winds are quite brisk but it feels good. We did receive a little rain overnight, 0.07″ in my gauge, but it wasn’t enough to water anything. I guess that’s what I’ll be doing tonight. This has been one of the greenest Augusts that I can ever remember. Usually the grass is…
Our weather has taken a turn to less humid and cooler. For people like me, it’s a blessing. We did receive a few sprinkles overnight and there is even one lightning strike showing on my weather station. We aren’t expecting much rain today and that’s good for those who want to be outdoors for the holiday weekend. We came home from the campground yesterday and the weather was absolutely beautiful. Highs were only in the mid 70s and the humidity…
Yesterday we took a drive across the Mackinaw Bridge and it may be our last for quite a while. This will be our final year camping. I’ll certainly miss our time spent up here in northern Michigan but as they say, all good things must come to an end. We have sold our trailer but will keep possession of it through next month. This week has been beautiful here. We’ve had clear skies and the hot, oppressive temperatures are gone. …
When we came up on Friday, temperatures were in the mid 70s. Then the weekend brought hot, very humid temperatures and storms. We had one pass Saturday which brought a lot of wind and torrential rain. The roads in our campground were like rivers, and we had to walk through 4 inches of water get get from our truck to the trailer. I was hearing of some wind damage in other parts of northern Michigan but we lucked out. Since…
We had storms move through the state early last night dropping 0.68″ in my rain gauge. Some areas in the southern part of the state got over two inches. We were briefly under a severe TS warning but it wasn’t that bad. The first hit between 7-8 PM, then the other one came about 11 PM. We just caught the edge of the second one and only got 0.09″ from that one. One would have thought that they would’ve brought…
Our morning began with cloudy skies and fog. It has now cleared up and has become a very nice day. Temps are very warm but a significant breeze keeps it comfortable. Mother Nature has cursed many parts of the country but we, in Michigan, have been lucky. Although too hot for some, our weather lately has been lovely. Mowing the lawn has become a weekly thing, with it growing almost overnight, with all the rain that we’ve had lately. But…
After a sunny morning, the sky has clouded up and my weather station is showing one lightning strike 22 miles away. I’m seeing some spotty showers to our southwest on radar but it looks mainly like light rain. We plan to cook out this afternoon so I hope that the rain holds off until after we’re done. This hot weather isn’t expected to end anytime soon so the AC has been working overtime. It has cooled off a bit since…
It seems like our temperatures keep going from one extreme to the other. We’re in the low to mid 70s one week, then in the mid to upper 80s the next. Today we could actually reach 90 degrees and that’s definitely too hot for my liking. Even worse is the high humidity and dew point. There is no cooling off expected anytime soon so we won’t be doing much outdoors this next week or so. Our 10:45 AM temperature is…