Northern Michigan Recreation Weather

Rain is coming for the weekend, in fact by the time most of you read this (or hear the podcast), it will be raining over Northern Michigan. I cropped the Weather story graphic that the NWS in Gaylord issued Thursday afternoon. The graphic show that there will be rain for the Friday through Sunday. A wet start to the Deer Bow Hunting Season.

As far as the foliage is concerned, the trees continue to gain color, and it’s looking pretty decent so far. This storm system isn’t expected to have outrageous winds, so most of the leaves should be safe.  Just to see how the color is coming, check out the Foliage Network for the latest report and this satellite shot.  Here’s a clip centered on Gaylord. You can see if you look closely that there is a bit of an orange or red color to some of the green now.

Now to the details of the forecast.

An area of low pressure moves towards the Great Lakes. By Friday afternoon, the warm front is in the region, spreading rain to areas north of M-55. This is expected throughout the day. With the rain and the clouds, High temperatures are expected to be in the mid to upper 50s. Winds shouldn’t be bad as the lines around the low aren’t nearly as packed around it as they were with the last storm, that we had Monday. Not being a hunter, I’m not sure if it matters much, but it looks pretty damp out. So if you can stay dry, it won’t be bad.

By Saturday, the rain will continue although it may be more showery and drizzly than anything else. The low, over the area, is a dying storm, which means that it is loosing the ability to produce a lot of rain. Most of the best rain will be concentrated around the outside of the low, which is outside of Michigan for Saturday. High temperatures will be a little cooler, in the lower to mid 50s.

Sunday, the Low will move out of the area. It still has some ability to make rain so there is a chance of showers, but it is dying. If it is cold enough there may be some lake effect rain showers, however, the clouds will be a given.  High temperatures will rebound a bit, but we will be solidly in the 50s.

Looking at the 8-14 day outlook of the CPC, we are expected to remain in the below normal temperature category, and below normal precipitation. So not a lot of rain but it will remain cool. We are definitely in Fall.