August 2022 Observation & Discussion

[CentralNebWeather]

Hastings NWS keeps upping temps in the next 10 days to 2 weeks.  It is like a broken record.  Most days will now be 90 to mid 90's.  Drought continues to worsen, if that is even possible at this point.  Very slight chance of rain tonight.  Everyone I talk to is so done with this weather pattern and ready for fall.  Really no signs of hope until at least the middle of September.

[snowstorm83]

Unless we get a surprise before midnight (20% POPs lol), LNK will end August tying as the 5th driest on record with only 0.55". Even worse, only there's only been 0.89" since July 7th. I don't know how Lancaster is still only in D0 drought, wouldn't be surprised to see that change tomorrow. I guess one positive thing is it seemed like we only had a handful of humid days this month. 

[westMJim]

The official H/L at Grand Rapids yesterday was 76/63 there was no rain fall and there was 63% of possible sun shine. The official over night low at Grand Rapids was 61 while here in MBY the low was 59. For today the average H/L is now down to 79/59 the record for the date is 97 in 1953 and the record low of 43 was set in 1915 and again in 1967. It looks like with a west wind off of Lake Michigan the overnight lows were warmer near the lake last night with Muskegon only reporting a low of 71. Lows that are warmer near the lake will become more common it the days ahead.

[Iceresistance]

Tomorrow is looking big for storms for me. Tuesday was wild, could tomorrow (Thursday) repeat it?

[OmahaSnowFan]

93.2 today IMBY. Will have to enter that into my stats to see if it was enough to push us over 90 degrees for the average high this month.

[Andie]

 Currently 77* at 6pm!

Light rain.   WooHoo!!

[CentralNebWeather]

Temp has dropped 25 degrees from the mid 90’s to 70 with rain beginning. Hope to get 0.25-0.50”. We’ll see. Feels amazing with a north wind. You’d think Fall was here, not so fast my friends  

[Andie]

76*
Rain and Lt rain.  ….awesome!

[OmahaSnowFan]

[westMJim]

The official H/L at Grand Rapids yesterday was 84/57 there have been many very nice days this warm season. There was no rain fall and the sun was out 91% of the time. For today the average H/L is down to 78/58 the record high of 98 was set way back in 1915 and the record low of a chilly 37 was set in 1946. The overnight low both here in MBY and at GRR was 66. Today should be the warmest day in the next week or so but that said next week still looks to be very nice with some chances of showers over the weekend.

[westMJim]

For Met summer at Grand Rapids the mean for the 3 months was 71.1 that was nearly average (+0.2) the average H/L was 81/60.7 the highest reading of 95 was set on June 21st and the and the lowest reading was 45 on June 4th there were just 7 days of 90 or better. There was 9.22" (-2.13") of rain fall of that 4.98 fell in August. There was 61% of possible sunshine all in all a really great summer here in GR.

[Andie]

76*. Thunder and rain.  

Love it!!!

[Tom]

6 hours ago, Andie said:

76*. Thunder and rain.  

Love it!!!

We have a Sept thread…

[Tom]

I saw this map of the Summer temps and it pretty much drives the point that for the most part it was an average Summer across the GL's/MW region.  Some pockets of AN temps show up near the metro's (UHI effect).  The red paint bomb across Texas is one for the books.