The biggest story to start off the work week will be a welcome warm up. High pressure returns today, bringing with it much more seasonable temperatures. Look for a high in the upper 50s under sunny skies. If you have any yard work you’d like to get done this week, Monday and Tuesday will be the two best days, since they will bring the warmest and driest conditions. Highs will warm into the 70s on Tuesday and Wednesday will still feature 60s, but rain becomes likely. Wednesday night into Thursday, another cold front and Low pressure system makes its way through our area, sharply dropping temperatures back into the lower-50s for Thursday. 0.5”-1.0” of rain will be likely during this timeframe.
Thursday through next weekend will be much cooler…we’re talking highs in the upper-40s to lower-50s for the most part, which will place us about 10 degrees below normal for mid-October. With cold air aloft and cold air advection occurring over Lake Michigan, lake effect rain showers and hit or miss instability showers will be likely on Thursday and Friday. You can think of instability showers as pop-up activity during the heating of the day. They form because the air ~1 mile above the ground is much colder than at the ground itself, so as the sun heats the ground, the warm air rises and quickly becomes warmer than the cold environment aloft. This generates clouds and showers. So, yes…as ironic as it sounds, you could think of the sun being out as the reason it starts raining!
Yet another cold front will come through Saturday night into Sunday, which will reinforce the cold air already in place. This will likely bring another round of rain associated with the front followed by lake effect rain showers afterwards. If it can become just cold enough, lake effect snow flurries may be possible as well, so this will be something interesting to watch closely as we head towards this weekend and carry into next week. If you haven’t turned on your furnace yet, you’ll probably have to after Tuesday because overnight lows will consistently be in the lower-30s. Here is a look at the high temperature forecast trend over the next 10 days:
Mt. Pleasant Almanac for This Week:
Almanac Information is a way to look at normal and record high and low temperatures for this time of year. The normal temperatures are based on the 30-year average high and low for that date between 1991 and 2020. For example, if you take the high temperature for every September 26th between 1991 and 2020 and calculate the average of all 30 values, the result would be 70. Therefore, the normal high for today is 70°. Record high and low temperature data goes back to 1895. Sunrise and sunset data is also provided. All information is valid for Mount Pleasant.
October 10th
Normal High/Low: 63°/42°
Record High: 87° 1938
Record Low: 23° 2000
Sunrise: 7:47AM
Sunset: 7:04PM
October 11th
Normal High/Low: 63°/42°
Record High: 85° 1928
Record Low: 22° 1964
Sunrise: 7:48AM
Sunset: 7:02PM
October 12th
Normal High/Low: 62°/42°
Record High: 84° 1938
Record Low: 22° 1908
Sunrise: 7:50AM
Sunset: 7:01PM
October 13th
Normal High/Low: 62°/41°
Record High: 82° 1930
Record Low: 25° 1937
Sunrise: 7:51AM
Sunset: 6:59PM
October 14th
Normal High/Low: 61°/41°
Record High: 83° 1975
Record Low: 21° 1907
Sunrise: 7:52AM
Sunset: 6:57PM
October 15th
Normal High/Low: 61°/41°
Record High: 84° 1897
Record Low: 22° 1907
Sunrise: 7:53AM
Sunset: 6:56PM
October 16th
Normal High/Low: 60°/40°
Record High: 85° 1938
Record Low: 23° 1907
Sunrise: 7:55AM
Sunset: 6:54PM
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