This is not good at all. However, my hurricane season forecast is starting right where I'd have drawn it up. Interesting. I didn't think our first tropical punch would be at Florida first. Eastern Fla and the Mid-Atlantic coast to the north are my other targets later in the season.

The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 82/59 there was no rainfall the sun was out 89% of the time the peak wind gust was 19 MPH out of the NE. For today the average H/L is now 80/59 the record high of 97 was set in 1894 the coldest high was 55 in 1917 the record low of 43 was set in 1999 the warmest low of 77 was set in 2022. The most rain fall of 2.51” fell in 2010. Last year the H/L was 75/50. We are now near the halfway point of June 2024 and so far this month is near average at Grand Rapids. The mean is now at 66.8 that is a departure from average of just +0.1. The high so far has been 87 on the 13th and the low for the month should be 45 on the 11th It has been a dry month so far with just 0.83” that is a departure of -1.05” The 2nd half of the month should be warmer than average.

****RAIN****

It went around in my family 3-4 different times and I never caught it. Then when no one else in my family had it recently I finally caught it for the first time last fall. Honestly wasn’t too bad besides for one day when I just wanted to lay in bed all day.

Ugly looking pattern on the EPS weeklies with definite drought conditions settling in for a good chunk of the southern Plains the next 6 weeks. Obviously if this happens it'll be quite hot.