Mother Nature may provide some fireworks here on the 4th of July. The GFS has been consistent with heavy rain, hopefully it's out of here by the evening.
.65 inches fell here last night giving me 2.4 inches for the week. The storms brought a lot of wind, some powerlines are down this morning and many in my area on south are without power. Looks like great weather here this evening as my family gets together for some fireworks and BBQ.
100%... This kind of thing drives me nuts. Heck, even Jim Cantore, who is very good, talked about Iowa this way a couple days ago. He lumped the entire state into the flooding discussion, as if we have all received 15 inches of rain and we just can't handle any more. The reality is much of the southern 2/3 of Iowa had/has been dry in June, but I have not heard a single met acknowledge this fact. Instead, it's, "OMG, there's bad flooding somewhere in the upper midwest, so we don't want to see any more rain anywhere!!!" Ugh.
I started a July discussion as we are just a couple of days away.
The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 72/59 there was 0.02” of rainfall the sun was out 13% of the time. The highest wind gust was 24 MPH out of the S. For today the average H/L is 83/61 the record high of 97 was set in 1913 the coldest high was 61 in 1943 the record low of 43 was set in 1943 the warmest low of 76 was set in 1931 the most rainfall of 1.47” fell in 1979. Last year the H/L was 88/62 and there was 0.87” of rainfall. The overnight low here in MBY was 68 and there was 0.40” of rainfall. At the current time it is cloud and 68.