Here is a little write up on the rainfall from the rainstorm of this past week.
https://www.mlive.com/weather/2024/07/big-michigan-rain-storm-totals-show-a-whopping-7-inches-at-tops.html
Here is a little write up on the rainfall from the rainstorm of this past week.
https://www.mlive.com/weather/2024/07/big-michigan-rain-storm-totals-show-a-whopping-7-inches-at-tops.html
The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 83/60 there was 0.31” of rainfall. The sun was out 36% of the time. For today the average H/L is 83/63 the record high of 106 was set in 1936 the coldest high of 71 was set in 1917. The record low of 42 was set in 1898 the warmest low of 74 was set in 1936. The record rainfall of 1.68” was set just last year with a high of 77 and a low of 57.
While the official rainfall amount yesterday was 0.31” once again I had much less with just 0.09” falling here in a short shower around 6:30 yesterday afternoon. The overnight low here was 65 and it is now 66 with mostly cloudy skies.
We are now a third of the way through July and the mean so far at Grand Rapids is 70.3 that is a departure of -2.4 the high so far has been just 84 on the 8th and the low was 47 on the 1st there has been 2.42” of rainfall so far. For the summer season so far there have been just 3 days of 90 or better so it has not been really all that warm so far this summer.