Hey there West Michigan.
Thanks for watching 13 Plus.
I'm meteorologist Michael Barons.
It was an active day of severe storms
that rolled through West Michigan this
afternoon and they made their presence known
with the wind damage they left behind.
First let's check out this storm damage.
It came from our own Juliet
Dragis in Cannon Township.
You can see there where the wind
took out a pretty healthy sized
limb there coming down in.
The backyard and that was just one of several
places that saw wind damage this afternoon.
Speaking of the storms impacts,
here's a picture that was
sent in to us from Kathy.
This was in Rothbury,
just across the water from where
the Electric Forest was going on.
They had to shut things down for a time this
afternoon as heavy storms rolled through,
but thankfully they were paying attention
to the forecast and everyone was
taking their proper safety precautions
areas that we saw additional storm
damage much like that first video.
This was Ottawa County.
Thanks to Sylvia for
sending you this picture.
You can see another pretty healthy,
good sized limb coming down
there into the roadway.
And then we had similar
views here in Grand Rapids.
Rashonda sent us this picture.
You can see again pretty thick limb coming
down with some of those wind gusts this
afternoon that were up above 60 mph.
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And on Instagram and total storm
reports across the map right now,
not as numerous as the actual damage.
And that's because we've seen just
lots and lots of reports of trees
and power lines down each of these.
One little icons here that would
usually represent one event.
They're representing countywide events,
this time from the National Weather Service.
They said lots of.
Areas of limbs and power lines down
in places in Oceana County, Newaygo,
Macosta, Montcalm, Ionia, and Calhoun.
So they'll be of course scaling that damage,
taking in the scope of things
throughout the next 24 hours,
and of course working to restore power,
still several without power at this hour.
You can see the map here.
There's a total of 523 outages on the
Consumers Network as of about 1020,
affecting almost 20,000 people.
So certainly numbers of.
Of West Michigan,
Michiganders are still in the
dark as we head through tonight.
Now of course,
with storms in the forecast
from time to time,
you can always keep up to date
with the changing weather here
in West Michigan in real time.
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That will give you a link
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Now Speaking of that forecast,
before the storms came through,
it was a toasty afternoon.
We hit 85 in Grand Rapids,
86 in Muskegon and 87 in Holland.
At 85 this afternoon,
a bullseye with the forecast second
one in a row and 12 days now in a row
inside the three degree guarantee,
including six of those.
As bull's eyes when it comes to tomorrow,
we're expecting temperatures that
continue their downward trend.
That's why 13 weather ball is lit up in
blue with cooler temperatures in view,
still blinking bright as rain remains insight
overnight tonight and into the day tomorrow.
The 13 weather ball, of course,
sponsored by Countryside Greenhouse
of Allendale.
As of about 1022,
temperatures had fallen into the
60s for most of West Michigan.
Note the dew points, also in the 60s.
It's still humid out there despite
the dropping temperatures.
The humidity,
that's not going to go anywhere until
early Tuesday when the humidity levels
finally start to drop across the region.
You can see dew point still in the
60s As we head through tomorrow
and through most of Monday evening,
it'll start to drop.
On Tuesday,
temperatures will start to rise on.
Tuesday and we'll be back in the 80s.
Before the end of the week,
your day planner scattered
showers and storms possible
overnight temperature down to 63.
Tomorrow 71.
Your high showers and storms under cloudy
skies as things stay cooler but still humid.
Tuesday Humidity moves on out,
skies start to clear.
Rain wraps up early and we see
a high of 77 by the afternoon.
Radar out there still showing activity
on the east side of the state as well
as some redevelopment here in West Michigan.
Nothing tonight expected to be severe,
just scattered showers,
possibly a rumble of Thunder.
In West Michigan.
The severe weather has pushed on out.
You can still see some ongoing at this
hour down in southern Indiana in Kentucky,
but for the most part we just
have to deal with the remainder
of this low pressure system.
And the rain chances?
It's going to push through West Michigan,
so it's going to track that hour by hour.
Here's what we're looking at through tonight.
Scattered showers,
maybe a rumble of Thunder.
We'll start to see an increase in coverage
as we get toward tomorrow morning,
with showers becoming again
widespread across West Michigan.
Again,
possibly some thunderstorm activity in here,
but nothing severe.
This will continue until Monday evening when
things start to finally wind down a bit.
We'll keep a few stray showers
in early Tuesday morning,
but then we start to clear the
skies out by Tuesday afternoon.
And we're back to some pretty
sunny skies by late Tuesday.
Excuse me,
That will continue into Wednesday.
It's going to be a much warmer
week ahead after a cool start.
In fact,
we're going to be getting back close to
the 90s by the time we head toward the end of
this coming week as certainly not tomorrow.
Though humidity around temperatures in
the upper 60s to low 70s on the Lakeshore
with those scattered showers and storms
will be in the low 70s for our northern
zones of humid conditions around as well
as low 70s for Grand Rapids down through.
Kalamazoo 13 Your Side 10 Day
outlook Temperatures again rising
back to the 80s by Wednesday,
will be up to 88 for Thursday.
Another round of showers and
storms comes through as we head
toward the end of the week.
That'll drop temperatures down
to about 80 degrees by Saturday.
Humidity is staying in force and
the heat goes right back up just in
time for the 4th of July holiday.
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We're looking at waves that'll be up
tomorrow with winds that are hanging
around the 10 to 20 mile per hour mark.
At times on the Lakeshore that'll produce
waves as high as four to five feet,
with winds coming mostly from the
north northwesterly directions.
That'll make the north sides of
Piers especially dangerous tomorrow,
but of course with the rain and
possible Thunder in the.
Forecast it's not particularly
a good beach day anyways.
The water temperatures out there,
they were still in the 60s as of Sunday,
but with higher wave activity heading
into the work week, would not expect.
Would not be surprised if we see
a little bit of cooler water well
up there before we start to warm
things back up again as we head
toward the end of the week.
Crap the size of grapes and
finally tonight check this out.
While we had plenty of wind related
damage here in West Michigan,
we did not see the large hail that
areas of northern Michigan did.
This video was from I-75
near Grayling earlier today.
Thanks to Ben for shooting it.
You can hear there he said the
hailstones were the size of grapes.
Definitely not something
fun to be out driving in.
Of course,
now that you're up to date with
the latest forecast for us here in
West Michigan and a recap of the
severe storms that struck today,
don't forget you can stay ahead of
events like today by following the 13
on your side forecast that's online
at 13 on yourside.com and of course
on the 13 on your side news and weather apps.
For now though,
thanks for watching 13 plus.
I'm meteorologist Michael Barons.