Storm Team 8 Forecast, Noon, 050626

Ajouté : 2026-05-13

[00:00:00]Always tracking. Always alerting. This is Storm [music] Team 8.

[00:00:04]Just after 12:15 and we are seeing more and more cloud cover slide into West Michigan. Started off this morning with some blue skies and sunshine, something we were lucky to see for a handful of cities yesterday, too. But mostly cloudy skies will be the theme as we move into the afternoon and evening, but we are dry. We have that going for us. No systems developing off to our west and nothing on the horizon that's really going to change that for us until likely sometime tomorrow afternoon. So in the meantime, it's a cool day, highs in the low 50s. We'll start to see a touch of clearing overnight with low temperatures tumbling all the way to the mid-30s.

[00:00:42]There's a chance that we see another frost advisory and perhaps a freeze warning stretching north of Grand Rapids, something we saw earlier on this morning, but it should be fairly short-lived. We'll see a little bit of sunshine that'll help us get to the 40s by late morning and then eventually reaching those low 50s tomorrow afternoon. Now dry for now is the key.

[00:01:00]We do see some activity make a return, but it's not a washout. Lot of chances you'll see in that 8-day forecast.

[00:01:06]Almost all of them are very light and scattered. Here comes that initial wave on Thursday. Few showers possible into the afternoon and evening. A better chance of some of those showers materializing late Thursday evening and even into the early morning hours on Friday. Few moderate showers could be in there, but the overall precipitation amounts look to be pretty limited. And that'll be the case for much of our Friday, too. You may find yourself in an isolated sprinkle, but not enough to cancel those plans. And as we slide into Saturday, this day I think has the biggest uncertainty. It is Riverbank Run morning and we do think there's a good chance for some showers in the early morning hours and we could even see a few more showers develop ahead of this cold front, but most of it actually looks to hold off into the afternoon and evening. So we're hoping that forecast holds. We'll keep a close eye on it as we get a bit closer to that time frame.

[00:01:54]Now as promised, not a lot of rain coming along with these systems. Most of us will see about a quarter to half inch. And this actually takes us into Sunday. So, really not a whole lot over the next 4 days or so here. It's good news cuz we've seen a lot of rain. We've seen over 5 inches in the past 30 days in Grand Rapids. That is about an inch above average for that time frame.

[00:02:15]Typically it's to be about 4.2 inches.

[00:02:17]And all in all, we actually kind of in a pocket, the Great Lakes region is. We have no drought conditions across the Great Lakes, even most of the Midwest.

[00:02:25]But look at the rest of the country.

[00:02:26]Well down to the south, they're dealing with an extreme or even exceptional drought. Similar situation off to the west. So, it puts us in good standing as we move into our drier summer months.

[00:02:37]And the rain chances do look to keep on coming as we slide into next week as well. Mother's Day, a very important day as well for any outdoor activities. This rain does look like it's trending south of I-94. We'll watch that very closely as well. Next week we'll continue to see those 50s Monday and Tuesday, up to 60 on Wednesday. Both Tuesday and Wednesday will have a chance for a few scattered showers as well. The good news is low temperature should start to slide up.

[00:03:02]The only other morning that we'll have to watch for some frost potential looks to arrive as we head into Monday morning.