Cooling Down Tonight...

Good Morning!

Cloudy skies kept our severe weather threat down to the point that it was unrealized yesterday.  A little bit of storminess did in fact occur, but all of that was well off to the north into the Saginaw/Flint/Bay City area.  Some rain and cooler temperatures are definitely on the way, so let's pop the hood and see what we have in there...

TEMPERATURES:  To day will be the last day that we see summer-like readings until next week.  Upper air computer modeling suggests a trough should start shoveling it's way in here from the west, the trough extends well into Canada and will be dragging a cold front along with it.  We'll see jacket needed nighttime lows that are in the upper 40's as the new week starts Sunday night!  After that, we'll see temperatures near 80 again, but with a little less humidity than we've seen here in past days.

RAIN:  We'll have some of that for sure, and it looks like football around the area Friday night could be wet in most spots.  After some sunshine today, we'll see clouds overspread the area from west to east tomorrow during the day, with scattered to numerous afternoon showers developing, and likely persisting through your game of choice.  Again not all spots will get wet at the same time, but it sure looks like everyone will pick up some rain starting after lunchtime and persisting into pre-dawn Saturday.  Here's what the National Weather Service thinks regarding rain for the next five days:

5 Day Precipitation Forecast

Now here you see a bit drier look than we had the last couple of days, that big rain target over Toledo is gone and everyone's rain totals for five days have been dialed back a bit.

SEVERE WEATHER:  Nothing much in the way of severe weather is expected for the next three days.  The approaching trough and front will bring us rain and cooler more stable air, along with clouds, so the rough stuff potential is fairly limited, though I will mention that the Storm Prediction Center has outlined a slight risk for Day 2 that is just south of us into Indiana and points southwest.  We'll be in the cooler northwest part of that system, so I don't expect anything except maybe a few pain vanilla thunderstorms as all that tracks through Lower Michigan.

There's not much to see in the area on radar, just a stray thunderstorm over by Ann Arbor on the Grand Rapids NEXRAD.

Grand Rapids NEXRAD Radar

Scattered clouds over northwest and southeast lower Michigan on the visible satellite image:

Visible Satellite Image

Here's the forecast for Jackson and surrounding communities including Spring Arbor and Pleasant Lake:

For today, mixed sunshine, seasonably warm and summer-like, high 82 winds NNW 5-10 MPH.

Tonight, periods of clouds and stars, cool, low 53, winds NNW 3-8 MPH.

Friday, mostly cloudy skies with some peeks of sunshine, cooler, chance of scattered to numerous afternoon showers, high 77.  Winds NW 5-10 MPH.

Friday night, showers start tapering off slowly after dinnertime, then clearing, lows near 51, winds N 8-15 MPH.

Saturday, partly to mostly cloudy skies, much cooler, high 68.

Sunday, clearing skies, becoming mostly sunny, a bit warmer, high 72.

Monday, mostly sunny, pleasant, high 76.

Tuesday, continued clear and summery, high 80.

Wednesday, more bright blue skies and warm, high 81.

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