Lightning

The past 10 days you have had a lot more than MBY. Chicago has had some good events now in the past week or so but so has several area's in lower MI. I like that it is active as I know for MBY will get missed at times and hammered during others. Normally the hammering happens which I am out of town . This time it didn't for change as I was out of town the past 5 days. Hopefully one of these events soon set's up just right.

Been a long time since I have seen a major bust in the right direction like Chi Town got today. The past 2 days everything has found a way to miss. I should sell myself a a weather curse to towns that don't want bad weather . I could be an instant millionaire

Don't want to hear you complaining

Blue sky. AQI under 100. Praise the Lord!!!

Awesome

Finally some real summer weather. I love it!!

Okay. Not surprised as they were thunderstorms. 2021 we had an overnight event with heavy rains and Lansing to MBY was ground zero. MBY got 5"+ amounts as it poured for hours. https://www.weather.gov/grr/summary20210809_12 You did have the 2018 August event (3 day totals over 6" in GRR): https://www.weather.gov/grr/summary20180828 I remember that 2013 event quite well.

I think we will see things 'reset' some mid-July. Hopefully when the heat dome re-establishes itself it is a bit stronger for the Great Lakes area to get in the ring of fire. Just don't want it too strong and blast it far north!!

I don't mind missing the 80MPH+ storm the got to the south at all. Especially just before the Holiday weekend. The storms around Big Rapids last evening are exactly what I love. Heavy rains, small hail and lots of lightning. My house and neighbors can get 5" of rain without flooding concerns for the most part. Yeah agreed as thunderstorm season is June-Sept for MBY. Other months are extremely hit or miss and I call them bonus months (have had great Days before but most Mays are not great for storms). Yesterday evening storms acted more like May storms: decaying as they crossed the state. July and August are my key months and we are looking much better than we did a few weeks ago.

This evening line of storms => Dr. Evil "How about no!!"

It's annoying as you should be able see some great lightning. This morning with 1 mile smoke visibility I only saw a few flashes.

Not sure what they're going to do. Some models don't even show these storms while other models don't have consistency. Hopefully they make it here but not going to hold my breath.

While I am not near ready to stick a fork in the summer, I will say that the smoke in MI has been abysmal. Many people in MI have been impacted. Several events canceled as hospitals are dealing with several respiratory patients. Even the Governor issuing/emailing statements to everyone.

Glad I mowed yesterday

It is nice. Got some rain but heavy stuff just missed MBY.

No kidding!! Hoping that stuff in SW MI holds together as it gets here. Any precip would be nice.

Continued wet south like that is usually a bad sign to the north. We shall see though as this could just be a pattern change process which later July and August might have better results for the northern areas. At least it's more active and all I need is a renegade storms like Alek is getting this morning

Awesome. I am now just over 10 years without!! Absolutely agree it is one of the best decisions my family has made. I came back to the forums as the kids are now college age and sadly we have less family fun times.

Yeah gonna need to mow Friday before the 4 day 4th weekend. Green is so much better than brown!!!

It is fun to see. Very happy with the rains the past 24 hours. It is great not to get it all in less than a hour but rather in a way it has soak down instead of mostly run off.

I have a couple UP trips planned in July and August. Looking forward to it!

We also noted the winds today. I sure not as strong as you got but it really hasn't been windy the past several weeks.

Yeah pretty common for the fast moving lines of storms. Got about 3/4" around here. I much prefer nocturnal training storms. I will say I don't mind missing out on the tornadoes.

Got some good rains. Lots of flashes and rumbles. Happy with the results overall. Clouds with the line were fun to watch roll in too