WestMichigan

Managed 0.33" at home this morning.  Looking forward to the cooler temps ahead.

47 minutes ago, weatherbo said:

Point has 46 for tonight then a dramatic warm up which I’m looking forward to. 
time to wrap up Summer projects and get ready settle in for Fall. 
what’s the coolest you’ve been?  I know you’re really close to the lake. 

I haven't dropped below 54 yet, but tonight should beat that.

1 hour ago, weatherbo said:

Another cool one here with 42 for the low.  Point has 91 Sunday!

Some other spots:

Baraga Plains 30

Kenton 31

Paulding 34

Wakefield 34

Ironwood 35

Not sure about up there, but tonight is supposed to be about 5 degrees colder than last night down here.

23 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

At 2pm my weather station cranked out an insane 98/85/131.

Top notch heat wave. 

Makes my 91/85/120 look paltry.

88/84/112 over here.  Not as bad as many places to the west, but I could definitely pass on this weather.

EDIT: 91/85/120 at 4:30

I think if a bird flapped its wings in the midst of a cloud swirl they might consider naming it right now.

3.13" from 2 bands of rain yesterday afternoon and overnight.  The news on the radio this morning said some areas got 5" or more.  No real drought concerns here unlike earlier in the summer.

It is a little early to be thinking this, but looking at the models, it would be nice to see a system like this in the winter....

Talk about heat indices with corn contributing to the humidity. How about this?  https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/hot-tub-like-persian-gulf-fuels-158-degree-heat-index-in-iran/ar-AA1f1Rtx

37 minutes ago, SolidIcewx said:

Right where I like to be. Other than food and store reasons I prefer to work out in the boondocks. Also don’t have to see my bosses as much. I look forward to the hills and the 2-3 mile hikes I’ll have to do

I grew up just north of the Ohio River in SE Ohio.  I am familiar with that part of the state and it is a great place to be just not much around there.  What do you do that takes you to Jackson for work?

14 minutes ago, SolidIcewx said:

Lmao that’s exactly how I felt going to Lima when DTW area and towards the thumb got crushed. At some point I’ll get the smoke. Was hoping for that on my drive down there last night. Out in Jackson Ohio where I’ll be in a few weeks is getting crushed now

Jackson, OH, you are heading into the middle of nowhere down that way.

Is early August normal for those maples to turn?

Yeah, keep that stuff away from here.

1.67” overnight bringing my monthly total to 5.99”. Definitely a wet July locally. I am sure some areas nearby are easily over 7” for the month. 

2 minutes ago, weatherbo said:

It's not just the snowpack, since June 1st MQT has received 5.34" of rain.

It did get dry for a week or so in early June but otherwise ground is nice and damp and everything green and lush.

Great conditions for the mosquito population to explode.

13 minutes ago, Lightning said:

Got woken up to Warning and sirens.  The cell was moving perfectly to MBY.  Moved my cars away from trees.  Sirens turn off.  Looked at radar.  Per NWS:  Warning canceled as storm lost severe capabilities.   Next the lightning stopped 3 miles from MBY.  Winds maybe gusted to 5-10 MPH.  

Howell airport => 0.7" of rain.

Flint airport => 2.5" of rain.

Models that had this system north => correct.   Others NG.

1.91" at home, 1.68" at GRR through midnight, close to 3" at Grand Ledge and numerous totals in the 2" range.  Overall I'd say GRR forecasted this one pretty well.

Over an inch and still raining here.  Drought is definitely gone.

1.07" from two separate storms last night.  The grass is green and growing rather fast.  Corn in the fields is trying to make up for lost time and has put on quite a bit of growth in the last two weeks.

11 hours ago, frostfern said:

Some lake shadow bullshit.  Same is it always was.  Chicago wins again.

I am going out on a limb here and saying you got rain last night.  Not sure why all the complaining.

8 hours ago, frostfern said:

On this side of the lake Holland to Muskegon is also still super dry, like bone dry dry.  A lot of the shoreline north of Ludington is pretty dry as well .  Most of the rain lately has been at least 20 miles inland, but there are also big dry holes in and around the Lansing area.  Classic lake breeze pattern.  Solid relief is all from I-94 south.

If you aren't east of US-131 then it isn't raining right now.  We have had some in the past week that missed the GRR area also but I noticed on Monday around Conklin it is still quite dry and like you mentioned the immediate lakeshore is dry also.

8 hours ago, SolidIcewx said:

Exactly. But was indicated it would stay more north. Still 3 months of chances left. Would be interesting to be under a heavy storm with heavy smoke

We have thick fog and maybe smoke, maybe not.  Too foggy to tell this morning.

8 hours ago, SolidIcewx said:

Exactly. But was indicated it would stay more north. Still 3 months of chances left. Would be interesting to be under a heavy storm with heavy smoke

We have thick fog and maybe smoke, maybe not.  Too foggy to tell this morning.

hardypalmguy might have to change his name to hardycactusguy

GRR with a little bit of sarcasm/humor in their afternoon AFD.

Smoke continues to linger across parts of West Michigan, though some
improvement has been noted over central Lower Michigan the past few
hours. As ridge of high pressure moves east of the area tonight,
winds will becomes SE, and this should prevent the somewhat more
pristine air to the north from advancing significantly farther south
through lower Michigan, and as a result forecast will continue to
include areas of smoke through Thursday.

11 minutes ago, frostfern said:

Visibility here was less than a mile.  AQI 300.

Accuweather was showing readings as high as 326 in my area about 30 minutes ago.