Yawn...Stable and Seasonable Pattern...

Good Morning!


Yesterday turned out to be a splendid day in south central Michigan!  Sun and reasonable temperatures.  We will not have a lot going on the next few days here, as we have settled into a calm and "routine" spring pattern.  Let's take a deeper dive and see what we have going on...


TEMPERATURES:  We stay on the cool side of seasonable for the next few days with temperatures from 60-75 for daytime highs and nighttime lows rolling back into the 40's.  74 is the warmest temperature being tossed about by the GFS computer model over the next few days.


RAIN:  Still a dry look for this part of the nation as we are forecast to come in at or below a quarter-inch of rain the next five days.  It looks like we may pick up a stray shower or two here or there today, then it's pretty quiet until the weekend.  Here's the National Weather Service map showing their idea of rain for us for the next five days.  This map is valid at 8AM today...

SEVERE WEATHER:  Nothing to see in this part of the world.  Just a "general" risk for plain old-fashioned thunderstorms and that's about it.  Nothing on the day two and three maps for Michigan.  In fact, there's not much of anything anywhere for the next couple of days.  Here's today's outlook map from the Storm Prediction Center, valid at 8AM.

A look at the infrared satellite image for you, showing some broken stratus clouds that will make for a partly to mostly sunny day today, and the Grand Rapids NEXRAD radar showing just a couple of lonely showers northwest of us, about to clip the north zone counties.

And here's the local forecast for Jackson County:


Today, periods of clouds and sunshine, the chance of a lonely stray shower, cool, high of 63.  Winds WNW 5-10 MPH.


Tonight, clouds early then clearing, cool, nighttime lows down to 45 with NNW winds 5-10 MPH.


Thursday, clear and pleasant, perhaps a few scattered clouds here and there, high of 67, winds NW 5-10 MPH.


Thursday night, mainly starry skies with some passing clouds, a tad chilly, nighttime low of 37 with winds NNW 6-14 MPH.


Friday, sunny skies, warmer, high of 73, west winds calm to 6 MPH.


Saturday, mostly sunny, mild, high 74.


Sunday, mainly clear skies, a few clouds pass by during the day, high 70.


Monday, skies stay mainly clear, high of 71.


There's a look at your forecast for the next six days, I do hope you have a great hump day Wednesday!  Blessings.