Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Sunny, Warm, Summery -- Changes Come Thursday...

Good Afternoon!

Another day of beautiful weather for South Central Michigan today.  Plenty of sunshine and moderate temperatures continue.  Let's take a deeper dive and see what we have...

TEMPERATURES:  We'll see temperatures start to warm just a bit as we head into the middle and back half of the week.  Temperatures should run between 81-87 degrees until then, with increasing humidity until we see the next weather maker move through the area, bringing showers and thunderstorms.  On the other side of that, temperatures don't look to get out of the 70's.

RAIN:  We'll see skies start to darken as we get toward Thursday, with showers and thunderstorms moving in after lunchtime.  An upper wave moves in, touching off some precipitation.  That brings up a little wetter look in the 5 day precipitation forecast from the National Weather Service...


As you can see here, the NWS is thinking that almost two inches will fall in extreme southeast Michigan over the next five days.  While I would love for that to happen, for my money, I think this is a bit aggressive, and amounts more around an inch total should fit the bill.  Still, we'll see what Thursday and Friday look like over the next couple of model runs.

SEVERE WEATHER:  There's not much in the way of severe weather for the next three days here in Michigan.  The Storm Prediction Center has only a slight risk in the forecast on Thursday.
Visible Satellite Image
Sunny skies right now in Jackson, temperatures in the upper 80's, here's the forecast for Jackson County...

For the rest of today, sunny and warm, high 87, winds NW 5-10 MPH.

Tonight, mostly starry skies, pleasant, lows near 62, winds SW 3-8 MPH.

Wednesday, continued sunny skies and warm, high 86, winds SW 5-10 MPH.

Wednesday night, clouds start to increase, a slight chance of a scattered shower, lows 64.  Winds SW 5-10 MPH.

Thursday, mainly cloudy skies, perhaps a peek or two of sunshine, chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms, high 86.

We'll have a complete six day outlook for you this evening.  Have a great rest of your day!  Blessings.

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