Lightning

You are having quite the April. Drought be gone in your backyard!!

What a truly wonderful day out today. Light winds, full sun and 50s

I hear you and you have good chance. Not gonna happen here. Plenty of 30s to go including tonight's 32F forecast. Shoot my area gets 30s at least once in the summer months (June and August last year)!!

Down to 24.6F. Now I will need to wait a bit to see what got damaged on the peach, apple and cherry trees I have. Always a problem when they bloom early like this.

Got 0.4" last night with April sitting @ 3.4"

Good garden type storm here. Winds at most 35MPH. 1/2" of rain. 1 awesome lightning strike.

Models tend to overdue the QPF for our area for sure with these large systems. I have learned to cut it in half instantly and even then know that might be the high side. Last weeks big system was forecast to be 1.5"+ QPF but I got under 0.5" from it. This area in SE MI (especially north of I96) does not do as well with these large systems. I believe it has to do with the convection to the south messing with the moisture transport or other dynamics. By the time it gets here it is a precipitation shield is a mess. My hope for 1.5-2" was shattered the moment DTX put this out

Pretty darn awesome

128 for me ; if I am around ...... ohhh forget it.

0.3" here since Sunday evening

What an incredible storm. A whole 0.15" of rain!! A shower or two to go an then 24-36 hours of dry slot!!

It definitely melted quickly but not that quickly. I recall the highest unofficial reports being 27" The storm was all over the UP news reports. https://www.weather.gov/mqt/May1990Snowstorm30thAnniversary I remember it well. It was on a Thursday. Friday afternoon/evening we were on the Breakers Beach playing Frisbee and volleyball and a bonfire of course. It was in the 60s.

Might as well. Let's do this and then move on to spring!!

I like to see this as it will help get the UP and northern WI with the Drought situation. It does seem like the some of the biggest storms lately have been Spring. 2 of the 5 years I live in the UP they had major Snowstorms April and May. Biggest was May 10, 1990 which closed NMU summer classes for the first time ever for snow. Driving home from MTU a couple weeks late we could still see snow piles.

I hate April's. This week is exactly why. I will be surprised if I get more than 0.5" QPF from last night (got 0") through Friday. Most surrounding area's will easily have >1".