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I almost hate bragging about our great weather when so much of the country is melting and dehydrating.  But I guess when you choose to live in parts of the country that have no winter weather, you have to […]

As summer days go, it doesn’t get much nicer than what we have today.  Temperatures are comfortably warm and the humidity is also at a comfortable level.  You really can’t beat Michigan in the summer in t […]

Today should be a fine day if you like “hot”.  Highs could reach near the 90 degree mark and that’s a little too warm for me.  There isn’t much breeze either, so very uncomfortable to those with no AC […]

TEMPERATURES
July 2023 averaged quite a bit above Normal in the area, with Maximum Temperatures having greater departures (+2.3° to +4.0°) than Minimum Temperatures (+1.2° to +2.4°), providing overall Mean Tem […]

Although we just had a slight chance of rain, one small cell managed to find us and we had a quick shower.  We only received 0.03″ from it, barely enough to matter, but enough to encourage the mosquitoes to […]

Our sky has appeared cloudy all day, but yet the sun was shining although filtered.   We could barely see blue through the smoke filled sky, so it was difficult to tell if it was clouds or smoke.  I guess we […]

Today has been dry and temperatures are comfortable with a light breeze.  There were a few showers that sprung up yesterday but none of them affected us.  Skies look like a few more could spring up today but n […]

Today we are expecting highs to only reach the upper 70s and that’s fine with me.  Yesterday wasn’t too bad but quite humid.  Today, the humidity is much lower and it feels more comfortable.  It’s just a be […]

Yesterday was hot and humid, and storms developed late in the day.  We didn’t have anything severe, but there was a lot of thunder.  Most of it hit overnight and I slept through it, but my husband said that i […]

Today is one of the hottest that we’ve had this summer.  Also the humidity is a factor which makes it worse.  I feel for those who still don’t have electricity due to the storms on Wednesday.  More storms ar […]

Yesterday was quite active on the weather scene.  Thunderstorms moved in during the early afternoon and continued for about 5 hours.  There were periods of severe watches and warnings, but we had none of t […]

Today will be one of those days when we wonder what will happen.  Our area is in the enhanced severe weather zone, but until the storms come, our air is still unhealthy from the wildfire smoke.  The local f […]

Once again our clear, blue sky looks more grey than blue.  The wildfire smoke from Canada is moving over us again, causing breathing problems for those with asthma and allergies.  Thankfully, no one in my f […]

Today is the beginning of a hot week.  Temperatures will reach into the 90s by the week’s end.  Today’s high should reach well into the  80s and we are still without AC.  Hopefully, they’ll be able to fix it […]

Although we weren’t really expecting any rain today. I’m seeing some starting to form to our north and south on radar.  Scattered thunderstorms are in our forecast, so we may see a little rain today.  Our AC i […]

Pacific Northwest summers are generally boring from a weather geek’s perspective.  Apart from the occasional thunderstorm or extreme heatwave, there’s very little activity going on…other than temperature […]

Although I was up in Traverse City yesterday, I heard about the storms which rolled through southern Michigan.  One car dealership in Davison had every car on his lot damaged by baseball-sized hail.  Other areas h […]

Thunderstorms began early in Cheboygan and continued as we headed for Traverse City.  The storm we drove through near Elmira, was a real gully washer, but by the time we reached TC, most of the rain was o […]

TEMPERATURES
June 2023 Mean Temperatures were just a bit above Normal in the area, with Average Maximum Departures from +1.8° to +3.8° and Average Minimum departures of -0.3° to +0.7° at the three official Por […]

We are once again under an air quality alert from the Canadian wildfires.  We’ll be heading up to Cheboygan and Traverse City for the next week.  We haven’t been there since we sold our trailer and parted w […]