It has gone from warm and wet in March and April to cold and dry here in May. March had a mean temperature of 40.0° a departure of +4.3 April had a mean of 51.7 for a departure of +4.1 and so far in May the mean is 48.1 a departure of -7.0. March had 4.73” of precipitation April had 7.85” of precipitation and so far here in May just 0.03”. The overnight low here in my yard was 45 and there was no rainfall. Today looks to be the warmest day until late next week. Today the highs should be in the mid 60’s with lows tonight falling to around 40. Tomorrow through Wednesday will see highs only in the 50’s to around 60 with lows in the mid 30’s or less with a chance of frost. There is a chance of some showers on Tuesday other wise the week looks dry. The official H/L at Grand Rapids yesterday was 63/33 there was no rainfall, the highest wind gust was 23 MPH out of the SW there were no significant weather events. For today the average H/L is 67/46 the record high of 88 was in 1896 and 1930 the coldest high of 43 was in 1960 the record low of 23 was in 1947 the warmest low of 68 was in 1979 the wettest was 4.10” in 1956 the most snow fall of 5.5” was in 1923 over in Lansing there was 11.5” of snowfall on May 9th 1923. Last year the H/L was 68/33.

After the cold we have had those temperatures in the low 60's felt warm.

GFS ensembles popping a ridge toward the end of May

Good Morning!

Or just normal second half of May, first half of June. Which could very easily happen.