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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 s […]

Wednesday was a heck of a start to the month of September! We started in the overnight around 0300-0400 with a strong thunderstorm that gave us most of today’s rain from the remnants of Ida. The day was cloudy, […]

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 ro […]

Tuesday was mostly cloudy, cooler with no rain but still humid despite the remnants of hurricane Ida moving NE towards our area from the Southern Gulf states. We reached the low 80s for highs with dew points a bit […]

Monday was partly cloudy, warmer with no rain but still humid. We reached the upper 80s for highs with dew points a bit higher than yesterday, ranging up to the mid 70s. We peaked with our warmer max temperature […]

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Sunday was mostly cloudy, cooler with no rain but still humid. We only reached the lower 80s for highs with dew points not quite as high as yesterday, ranging up to the
mid 70s. We peaked with our cooler max […]

Saturday was partly cloudy, not quite as hot but still humid with the typical building cumulus in the later afternoon that developed into thunderstorms in the evening with severe storm warnings posted in my […]

Friday was partly cloudy, hot and humid but with building cumulus in the later afternoon that developed into quite a powerful thunderstorm with heavy rain (0.85″), high winds, vivid lightning and booming thunder […]

Thursday was partly cloudy, hot and humid but with building cumulus in the later afternoon that developed into light convective evening activity with mostly muted
thunderclaps and minor lightning strikes that […]

Wednesday was partly cloudy, hot and humid but with building cumulus in the later afternoon that developed into mid-evening thunderstorms (0.35″) between about 2000-2100. We reached the lower 90s for highs with […]

July 2021 had above average temperatures with just a bit drier than normal precipitation amounts that were widely spread throughout the month with three very modest three day dry spells. The equally modest wettest […]

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 t […]

Tuesday was mostly sunny all day, a rare treat, and quite warm and humid but dry, about as warm as Monday, reaching the upper 80s for highs but with dew points ranging from the upper 60s to mid 70s. We peaked with […]

Monday was partly cloudy most of the day, but became cloudy in the evening hours with a moderate but fairly brief rain shower (0.27″) between 2200-2300 (approx), warmer than
Sunday with the stronger afternoon […]

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 […]

Sunday stayed mostly cloudy but basically dry, a bit cooler than Friday, reaching the tolerable lower mid 80s for highs but with dew points once again mostly in the low-mid 70s. We peaked with our moderate max […]

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.  W […]

Saturday stayed mostly cloudy but dry, warmer than Friday, reaching the tolerable mid 80s for highs but with dew points mostly in the low-mid 70s. We peaked with our
moderate max temperature (84.4) of the day in […]

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 d […]