Current 82F with a dew point of 61F.

100 burger ain’t happening

Down to 59. Looks like a rainy day on tap for me...staying inside like a rainy winter day haha

Good morning! There was rain to the north and rain to the south but here in the Grand Rapids area there was no rain. And there is no rain in the forecast for the foreseeable future, so it is going to get really dry around here. The overnight low and current temperature here is 75 with a DP of 69. This looks like to be the last really warm overnight low this month. Today should see highs in the low 80’s highs Wednesday and Thursday will only be it the mid 70’s and lows will be in the cool low to mid 50’s. It looks to warm up by Friday with highs returning into the low to mid 80’s and lows in the low to mid 60’s. Detailed Forecast Today A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Patchy smoke between 7am and 8am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. West northwest wind 11 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Tonight Partly cloudy, with a low around 54. North northwest wind 8 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Wednesday Sunny, with a high near 74. North northwest wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Wednesday Night Clear, with a low around 52. North northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light north after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph. Thursday Sunny, with a high near 78. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph in the afternoon. Thursday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 55. Friday Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. Friday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 58. Saturday Sunny, with a high near 84. Saturday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 65. Sunday Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. Sunday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 63. Monday Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. We now have 20 days of July 2026 in the record books and the mean temperature here in Grand Rapids is 77.1 that is a departure of +4.3 the high for the month will be 98 and the low so far is 57 there have been 6 days of 90 or better there has been just 0.53” of rainfall. If Grand Rapids stays at less than a inch it would be the 1st time since 1976. The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 82/57 there were 5 CDD’s and there was no rainfall. The reported weather events were fog(smoke?) and haze. For today the average H/L is 83/63 the record high of 104 was in 1934 the coolest high of 68 was in 1947 the record low of 43 was in 1944 the warmest low of 75 was in 2011 and 1901. Last year the H/L was 81/56. Some weather history for July 21st 1934, The temperature reached 109 degrees at Cincinnati, OH, to cap their hottest summer of record. The state record for Ohio was established that day with a reading of 113 degrees near the town of Gallipolis. (David Ludlum) 1975, Six inches of rain fell across Mercer County, NJ, in just ten hours causing the worst flooding in twenty years. Assunpink Creek crested eleven feet above flood stage at Hamilton and Trenton, the highest level of record. Traffic was brought to a standstill, and railway service between New York City and Washington D.C. was cut off for two days. Flooding left 1000 persons homeless, and caused an estimated 25 million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)

I'd say that at least 50% of people consider 65 F to 72 F to be perfect summer weather. For me it's something like 78 F to 85 F.