I just saw a map showing that Illinois has had 80 Tornado's so far this year...that's incredible. The next state is MS with 43 TOR's, OK with 32 TOR's.
The overnight low here in MBY was 39 it has now gone up to 43 as of 6AM with partly cloudy skies. After a cold start yesterday with a low here in my yard of 25 and 26 at GRR it became a nice but cool spring day. I cut the lawn for the first time this year yesterday and that could be a couple of times a week chore for a while. Today should be a warmer day than yesterday with highs pegged in the upper 60’s there is a chance of a few showers. The rest of the week looks to be mostly warm with highs in the 70’s and lows in the upper 40’s to near 60 it will cool down for the weekend and there are several chances of showers.
We now have 20 days of April 2026 in the record books and the mean temperature so far is 49.6° that is a departure from average of +4.1° the highest temperature for the month is 79 and the lowest temperature is 20. There has been 7.19” of rainfall that is good for 3rd place. The 2nd wettest April is 8.29” in 1909 and the wettest is 11.10” in 2013. We have a chance of this being the 2nd wettest April at Grand Rapids. There has been a trace of snowfall. The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 49/26 there was no rainfall. For the year so far Grand Rapids has had 16.98” of precipitation that is a departure from average of +7.21” so it has been a wet year so far. For today the average H/L is 60/39 the record high of 84 was in 1985 the coldest high of 38 was in 1936 the record low of 22 was in 1953 the warmest low of 64 was in 1973. The most rainfall of 1.71” was in 1967 the most snowfall of 2.0” was in 1924 the most snow on the ground was a trace in 1924.
Some weather history for April 21st 1980 The temperature at International Falls MN hit 90 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)1988 After having had just twelve rainouts in the previous twenty-six years at Dodger Stadium, a third day of heavy rain in southern California rained out a double-header at Dodger Stadium which had been scheduled due to rainouts the previous two days. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)