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Although my area just got rain, Ovid, about 10 miles to our west, was hit by strong winds and damaging hail.  Hail stones the size of golf balls to almost baseball size were reported.  A friend at a yard party i […]

Saturday was a bit of a rebound day with milder max temps in the mid 70s reached in the late afternoon. We dried out but still had cloudy, below normal temps holding. Minimum temps were reached in the more normal […]

A magnitude 3.9 earthquake was observed near Mount Hood late in the day on June 5. Minor shaking was reported by people living around the volcano, but earthquakes this small do not typically produce damage. It has […]

A large area of thunderstorms formed over mid Michigan and moved to the south late yesterday.  There were no storm warnings issued although there should have been.  Local forecasters said that they didn’t a […]

Friday was quite a change of pace with cloudy, much cooler and wetter conditions in place all day. The max temp only reached the upper 60s, and that was at midnight at the very beginning of the day. Minimum temps […]

Our weather has been unbearably hot for me.  Thankfully, we have cooler temps coming next week, once we get past the weekend.  The AC has been running steady.  We are heading back up to camp on Monday, and my hu […]

Thursday was a bit warmer than Wednesday. The max temp reached the upper mid 80s. Minimum temps were a bit cooler than Wednesday but were reached at the very
end of the day. Higher dew points in the 70s early […]

The National Drought Mitigation Center updates their Drought Monitor every Thursday, outlining the geographic details of drought conditions throughout North America. In today’s update, the extreme drought category […]

TEMPERATURES
May 2021 averaged very close to normal for this area but the warmest Maximum Temperatures waited until the final 3 days when the 80s were reached each day, bringing the monthly Average Maximum […]

Welcome to Summer 2021, or at least the meteorological definition.  There’s a longstanding confusion in the United States, as to which calendar format we should use for  defining seasons.  Several decades ago it […]

Wednesday was a bit cooler than Monday and Tuesday. The max temp only reached the mid 80s. Minimum temps were about the same as Monday and Tuesday and were
once again reached during the early morning hours […]

Tuesday was almost an exact mirror image of Monday, as far as max/min temps were concerned. Once again the max temp only reached 90 as a rounded value (89.8). We had a partly sunny, still hot, equally humid day […]

We had to go to Detroit yesterday and the weather situation was quite remarkable.  When we left at 9 AM, the sun was out with scattered clouds.  Then the sky became overcast and dark clouds began appearing to o […]

Monday was not quite as hot as Sunday, only reaching 90 as a rounded value (89.6). We had a partly sunny, still hot, more humid day. The max temp was reached in the early afternoon as clouds moved in a bit later […]

11:00 pm Monday

What a shift in weather we’ve seen over the last week! In my last blog on 5/31, I was talking about the potential for record heat in Portland on Tuesday, 6/1. Portland indeed set a record that […]

Sunday was the hottest day of the year so far with the 92.3 reading recorded today, eclipsing the previous high for the year of 90.2 recorded yesterday. We had a mostly sunny, hot, slightly more humid day. The max […]

Today is another scorcher with my weather station reading over 90F.  I’m not sure how accurate it is because it is in the sun and that usually causes it to read about 3-4 degrees higher that what it really is.  R […]

Saturday was the hottest day of the year so far with the 90.2 reading recorded today, eclipsing the previous high for the year of 89.8 recorded back on May 23. We had a mostly sunny, moderately humid day. The max […]

Our weekend has turned out as promised.  Very hot and uncomfortable for those of us who are heat sensitive.  The saving factor of the day is the wind.  Some places could reach 90°F although the forecasted high is […]

Friday continued warm with dew points staying relatively uncomfortable, hitting the 70 mark once again. We had a partly cloudy day with showers scattered around the region but with no measurable rain falling at my […]