To please most people in Michigan through the Fourth of July period, the weather should be near normal. That looks like the type of weather we have coming.
Near normal weather in early July gives us warm temperatures, but not sizzling hot. It also means most times of the day and night you won’t need a sweatshirt on, which is a big bummer for most Michiganders around July 4.
Rainfall hopes across the holiday weekend usually conflict. For our outdoor fun, we often want an entirely dry holiday weekend. But if you have a garden, or want a green lawn into July, you’ll want a decent rain. Fortunately we have no control over the rain, and Mother Nature brings it or doesn’t. This coming Fourth weekend it looks like she won’t bring much rainfall, if any.
So it’s definitely time to plan your holiday weekend fun.
Here is the rainfall forecast, showing six hour rainfall totals from Friday morning to Monday night.
The only precipitation totals you see are up to one-tenth of an inch Friday morning and one-tenth of an inch on the Fourth of July afternoon. Showers that produce one-tenth of an inch usually only last an hour or so. In other words, a few spots could have two spurts of one-hour showers this holiday weekend. That’s great for outside fun, but we gardeners will have to water our gardens.
When we don’t have the few showers around, skies should be mostly sunny to sunny. The good thing about the Fourth of July is we have an easier time getting sunshine than having clouds. Our mid-summer sky conditions are opposite of the rest of the year here in Michigan.
So rain shouldn’t stop you from doing anything this weekend.
Temperatures will be nearly normal, with just a few exceptions. Here are the high temperatures possible each day from Friday to Monday.
There are two themes to the temperatures this weekend. The southern half of Lower Michigan will generally be summery with high temperatures in the 80s. Friday will still be quite hot still with temperatures in the 90s in the southeast half of Lower Michigan. Northern Lower Michigan and the Upper Peninsula will be just a touch cooler than normal mid-summer temperatures. The positive on the holiday weekend up north is that it will be comfortable if you are heading to a cabin or camper without an air conditioner.
For boaters, wind speeds should be fairly nice for getting on any water. No day looks very windy. You will likely have just a 10 mph steady breeze during most of the daylight hours. You might just have short time periods when it might be a little breezy for you to boat. You’ll have to get those short-term wind forecasts as we go through the weekend.
Start the planning of outdoor fun now.
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