Stealing this from a different subforum here https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/snow-september-michigan-upper-peninsula-reports-first-flakes-year?taid=68b9de3458195e00016720a1
Wednesday's rain will certainly help in some of the drier areas of the state. Not a perfect overlay of the driest areas but certainly some welcome precipitation in many areas.
GFS wants to ease the dry conditions bringing the remnants of a tropical system up the the lower great lakes region. Would certainly help out with the drought in the Ohio region assuming the fantasy land GFS is at all accurate.
I drove through that stuff in the Toledo area on my way back from PA Saturday evening. It rained so hard for about 5 minutes people were pulling off interstate. I was doing about 10-15MPH and the lane lines were barely visible.
One cell looks to be heading towards somewhere between South Haven and Saugatuck heading ENE. Maybe it can get going enough to bring some rain to the area.
Crazy year. Madison, Milwaukee, and Ann Arbor had more snow than GRR and Flint came close. '07-'08 was a decent year but not even in the top 20 locally.
Watched the rain split and go north and south as it approached over the weekend. Managed to get a tiny lone cell after the main even to swing through and bring about 0.1" of rain. Other than that pretty much missed out on everything else. That D1 drought is going to be approaching D2 levels pretty soon.
At this point thinking it might take something tropical heading due north to bring anything meaningful this summer. It is so dry here the corn is shriveling up during the day and the weeds are even starting to dry up.