WestMichigan

Just saw frost warnings in Alaska. Not entirely out of the question this time of the year up there, but made me think about fall coming also.

Last night will probably drive frostfern over the edge. I had 1.4" of rain in 3 separate showers that moved through. GRR reported a trace of rain. Guessing wherever frostfern lives they got whiffed also.

The stats don't tell the whole picture. There were a couple occasions where GRR itself was right in line for a band of thunderstorms while areas very nearby had little or no rain. Also it doesn't indicate the timing of the rains either. There have been long periods with little or no precip followed by decent rains and then another long break. May barely finished above normal and June was very dry. July will be going below normal most likely starting Sunday. I think it really goes back to the spotty nature of rain in West Michigan recently. I went 30 minutes north of my house yesterday and the grass was green while still fairly crispy brown in my back yard. This is what @frostfern is complaining about on a regular basis.

We managed 0.67" this week so that should keep the D0 at bay for another week. Knocking on our doorstep though and it wouldn't take much more dryness to push us over the edge. Lots of IN and OH should go down a level or completely out of any dry conditions after this week's rain.

Would be nice if we could share the wealth a little. Many areas in the have and man areas in the have not categories right now.

0.53" this morning at GRR. So much for less than 1" of rain in June.

Bottomed out at 48 this morning at GRR. Nice cool morning before the next round of heat. This has certainly been a summer of ups and downs and not one steady dominant temperature regime. Can't say the same for rain so far though. Things are getting quite dry around here. The corn in the fields is looking absolutely awful for this time of the year.

The lake helps in the winter and hurts in the summer. Not something most people would think about until the live it for a few years. The lake shadow is real.

95 officially at GRR and 94 at my house. If was very windy yesterday and as frostfern already pointed out, it was much less humid yesterday than last week when it was hot out.

0.32" here. I think it was a general fairly light rain over most of the area. I didn't see or hear of any high totals from Wednesday night's rain in this part of the state.

93/85/123 IMBY - sounds like I want to stay at work in the AC instead of going outside.

Ranges from about ankle high to just coming out of the ground around here.

Very patch around this area yesterday. I didn't record any rain but watched and heard a thunderstorm about 5 miles west of me.

Central Ohio and Indiana getting soundly beat by Kentucky is quote the anomaly for sure. Overall lots of hits and misses in your guesses, but kudos for taking a shot at it in the first place.

Looks like May is picking up where April left off with another solid rainer tonight/tomorrow. Maybe up to an inch around here.

They show the immediate Pacific coast as normal. At least they didn't show the entire lower 48 as above normal.

What a crazy couple of years. Lansing beating Muskegon for two straight years is quite the oddity.

Interesting visualization of Global Temperatures since the late 1800's. Surprised some of the hot years like the 1930's were not higher. Guess they were offset by other regions of the world.

Hit 58 about and hour ago. Crazy winds for sure.

Gust to 48 so far at my house. Expecting higher gusts later based on what is happening west of here.

Stuck in the 50's over here all day long.

Winter weather advisory out for my county. Seems borderline at best. I am guessing I will wake up to nothing but rain but time will tell.

We don't need to do this again that is for sure.

It would really help if I could cut and paste properly.

Which is it, bring it on, or no more snow?