WestMichigan

39° at my house on top of a hill this morning and about a half mile away at the bottom of the hill my car read 34°. Small change in location make a large difference on clear nights that radiate well.

Looks like one spot in the UP is on the boards with 0.1" of snow.

Not a great show last night, but I did manage to get a couple of ok pics.

Nice to finally see some precipitation showing up. Yeah, it is the GFS but hopefully after weeks of dryness it is on to something.

Play the time lapse backwards and you can see some cool shots.

NOAA Kp index breakdown Oct 10-Oct 12 2024 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 00-03UT 2.00 7.67 (G4) 5.33 (G1) 03-06UT 2.67 8.00 (G4) 5.00 (G1) 06-09UT 1.67 7.33 (G3) 4.67 (G1) 09-12UT 2.00 6.67 (G3) 4.33 12-15UT 4.67 (G1) 6.33 (G2) 4.33 15-18UT 6.67 (G3) 6.33 (G2) 5.33 (G1) 18-21UT 8.33 (G4) 6.00 (G2) 4.67 (G1) 21-00UT 7.67 (G4) 5.33 (G1) 4.33 The 3 hour window from 1200 - 1500 UT averages out to 3.33 right now so if anything it is either smaller or later than expected.

Looks like around sunset and again around 11:00PM EDT are supposed to be the peaks. A high KP most of the night would indicate a good chance of seeing something tonight.

120,000+ without power now in Florida. That is going to be a very large number by morning.

If GRR hits 80° today it will be 16th of the month and the most on record.

Same amount here. Could definitely use more but nice to see it rain again.

I look forward to this thread every year.

Any reason why?

+0.2° departure for the summer. You have to have a little ± departure allowed to be still called normal. I would call that NAW (normal and wet) not WAW.

They are in the midst of quite a dry spell also which might be helping things warm up more than usual.

I lived through some of those seasons growing up in SE Ohio where the hills across the valley were almost not visible due to smoke. Not fun. Hoping for some rain soon for those folks. I have heard some people on wells are resorting to hauling water and have had relatives say the cracks in the ground are getting quite large.

Those clouds that blew up over Lake Michigan are heading straight for me. Pretty cool satellite shot showing what is happening.

Coolest July in 9 years at GRR. Enough rain to keep things green as well as overall cool temperatures. Except for the couple stretches of high humidity it was as Alek would say - "Best climo"

At -2.0°F for the month it looks like GRR is headed for a below normal July. The end of the month will eat into that a little but I don't see the negative departures being completely erased. Not bad when earlier this summer the general thought was a hot summer.

Unless it is ridiculously hot out after the event and it knocks out your power. I am sure I am not the only one with this experience in the past.

You have had 8 days of 90+ this year according to your signature. Stop complaining. You have already surpassed 2014 and 2017 and it won't take much to match or exceed 2023.

Top 15% warmest for the GRR area.

Baraga Plains must have a growing season of about 2 weeks.

What a difference a year makes. Last year month to date GRR had 0.82" of rain. This year 3.73". The difference in lawns and gardens is very visible.

Three day's of 90+ was all GRR recorded. Spartman would have been on here ranting about the two 89's we had.