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High pressure will remain in place over the region through Friday. This coupled with southerly flow thanks to a deepening low in the Pacific will amplify already hot temperatures in the Inland Northwest, prompting […]

(Cover photo credit of Ben Randall)

After a slow start, Pacific Northwest summer is in full swing!  The first 10 days of July was the coolest in many years, with only one day in the low 80s, most days u […]

We will be going back to our campground today and the weather sounds good for traveling.  There is no rain in the forecast and temperatures will be comfortable.  Unfortunately, there are more 90s coming for the w […]

There are numerous showers popping up on radar but they all seem to  be missing us.  I expected to hear the rumble of thunder overnight but no such luck.  Everything was dry this morning.  We’ll be heading up to […]

Yesterday was quite comfortable, and today will be also .  But there is more hot weather knocking on the door and that is expected by the weekend.  We’ll be heading up to our campground on Thursday, just in time f […]

Severe thunderstorms rocked northern Michigan early yesterday causing damage to a school in Cheboygan, and many trees down across the northern areas of the state.  Even our campground had some damage done, mainly […]

This radar image was from this morning when a line of thunderstorms moved across the state, causing severe storm warnings in various places.   We were under a warning briefly, but there was nothing here that was s […]

We took a drive to Sleeper State Park in Caseville yesterday.  Caseville is in the thumb area of the state and was a favorite camping destination for us when my kids were little.  We hadn’t been there in years a […]

Rain began around 3 AM this morning and left 0.50″ in my gauge.  It was very welcome and exceeded the predictions.  Light rain continues at this time but radar is showing that it won’t last much longer.  Re […]

The heat and high dew points left from the tail end of June carried forward into the first half of the month of July.  But not to the extreme that the official Washington DC DCA station has recorded, as their […]

We complained when it was cold, and now we complain because it’s too hot.  Why can’t the weather ever reach a happy medium?  At least we got some very beneficial rain last week and the lawn has greened up a […]

Yesterday was as perfect as a summer day in Michigan can be.  Temperatures were comfortable and the humidity and dew points were low.  There was just enough breeze to open the windows and give the AC a rest.  To […]

After all the heat of last week, today feels really refreshing.  Highs are only expected to be around 80° and that’s sounds wonderful to me.  We may just be able to give the AC a rest.  We have a few clouds thi […]

Friday produced multiple showers and thunderstorms for our state.  The rain was very badly needed following this past week of very hot, dry weather.  We received 1.28″ but some areas recorded as much as 3-4 i […]

I was very happy to see rain on the radar this morning and it is raining quite hard now as I post this.  There was only 0.02″ in my gauge from yesterday even though most areas received more than that.  We seemed t […]

TEMPERATURES
Overall, June 2020 averaged slightly above normal, with Maximum Temperatures very close to normal but Minimums about a degree or so above normal. The first half of the month was very wet, which […]

Our wetter patterns from earlier in the month “washed out” a bit during this end of the month period with only 2 significantly rainy days (both featuring
thunderstorms) with warm, increasingly more humid days […]

May 2020 was cooler and drier than normal. My maximum temperature average (69.9°) was 3.9° below normal but my minimum temperature average (53.1°) was still a bit above normal (+1.3°), resulting in the mean tem […]

Today will be another day of hot, dry weather, although the humidity will  be on the rise.  The past two days have been remarkably dry in terms of humidity, which is rare for Michigan in summer.  There is no ra […]

Temperatures yesterday were in the mid 80s, but the humidity was very low as was the dew point, so it really wasn’t that uncomfortable.  Today will be about the same, and there is no rain in the forecast until […]