michsnowfreak

I couldn't agree more. Although many years seems like we go from AC September to heat October.

Had the heat on off and on so far in May. I do NOT want to go right to AC lol.

Higher summer mins seem to be the most notable aspect here. There's obviously nuances to everything, but LONGTERM, winter here really hasn't changed much outside of a Dec temp increase and Jan-Feb snow increase.

Mine would be July 2012. Just gross.

Even if it was in the 30s at legit stations, it doesnt take away from the heat that that summer was known for, which was your point in bringing up that brief but potent cold snap. The most deadly heatwave in history, 1936, was in a summer that had cool snaps. Some more stagnant summers can come up with a higher mean temp despite never having any single impressive max temp. And I won't even get started on who's "wrong" about things lol.

Thank you

My birthday is May 8th so the weather can be very variable this time of year, but by a mile 2020 was my coldest birthday. I wore a turtleneck sweater that day. It flurried all day in a brisk breeze then we got to a record low of 27F the next morning, one of the coldest May temps on record.

May 8 - 12, 2020 saw snow reported 5 straight days at Detroit (T, T, 0.5, T, T). Five consecutive days of May snow has never happened before in the entire climate record. Today was likely the last frost of the season...with the first only 4.5-5 months away!

Frosty May morning in SE MI. Detroit officially got to 36F, with some rural areas dipping below freezing.

Frost advisory for most of southern MI tonight. With the summer-like warmth next week, even though not long-lasting, this should be the last frost until late September or early October.

Good memory! Record low of 46F at DTW on July 2, 2001.

To this day, summer 1988 holds the record for the most 90F+ days on record at Detroit (39). With a widespread drought going on, I assume the humidity was unusually low. I was only 5 but Ill never forget seeing a grass fire ignite before my eyes. There was indeed a brief but potent (for the season) cold snap to start July. In fact, DTW had a record low of 48F on July 1st, sandwiched between a sea of record highs in June & July. That summer saw 5 days of 100F+, which is 2nd only to 1936 with 8. Nevertheless, its an absolute joke to take an alleged 32F reading at a random coop station with a very possibly faulty thermometer in an extremely rural area, in one of the last months that station kept records....and just say "hey it was 32 this day, youd never see that today". BTW the official low at Pittsburgh that day was 49F. Lmao do you know some of the insane readings that come from some of the cold spots in rural Michigan during the summer?

Hes excellent at cherry picking the most random things from xmacis. A random coop station in a middle of nowhere town with a population under 2K that is full of missing data and hasnt reported since 1988. If that isnt accuracy, I dont know what is.

An unusual day today in that high temps in Michigan ranged from the 80s in the western U.P. to the 50s in southeast MI.

Its very odd to pick one random day. I guess I could say I remember as a kid it was spring by mid-late April and now we almost always get a snowfall. Its a huge generalization. July 4th is a hot summer day most of the time. If a cold front happens upon the area in that timeframe, so be it. But to assert that you would wear a hoodie as a kid and now its always 70+ is a stretch. Pittsburgh was 100F on July 4, 1911. The warmest July 4th low at Pittsburgh airport was actually 74F in 1999.