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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 […]

For anyone who loves hot summer weather, they should be overjoyed right now.  It looks like that will be our weather pattern for quite a while.  For me, that will be a bit much as I’m not a fan of anything much o […]

Two Sundays ago, I proudly proclaimed that Juneuary would end on the 17th. But taking a look at the webcam from Timberline Lodge this morning, that appears to have been a premature call! Just another example of […]

Yesterday was lovely and the same is expected for today.  We are in a period of dry, hot weather, something that we have been waiting for since June began.  We were wondering if it was ever going to happen, but a […]

As severe thunderstorms developed yesterday, they remained to our south and west.  We received 0.53″ of rain with a little thunder and lightning, but not much more.  Many areas got over 2 inches of rain and some w […]

What a beautiful sunset tonight! I’m currently on Whidbey Island just north of Seattle, but Portland saw a spectacular sunset as well.

When the sun is low on the horizon like it is at […]

This morning is sunny and mild, but I can already see clouds in the west ahead of the storms which are expected to reach us later today.  The is a good chance that we’ll have some severe weather.  Temperatures w […]

We saw a little-known, but fascinating meteorological feature off the coast of Vancouver Island today… a little swirl in the clouds created due to differences in the strength of northwesterly winds along the […]

Our week in Indian River was wonderful except for the last two days.  Until then, we had clear skies, light winds, and very comfortable temperatures.  We will be going back up for the 4th of July week, and I h […]