Hey there, West Michigan.
I'm meteorologist Michael Barons.
Thanks for watching 13 Plus.
It was a stormy start to the day on Saturday,
but those storm clouds moved out and
sunshine moved in for the afternoon.
But by the end of the day,
Hayes had returned to West Michigan.
Look at that smoky sunset in Muskegon.
Thanks to Joanne for sending
this picture our way.
Another view came in from
Pier Marquette Beach. Really.
Really picking up on the smoke
in this picture here from Bill.
We're going to see smoke continue
to increase over the region,
bringing down air quality as
we head into your Sunday.
More on that in just a moment.
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Temperatures out there hit a
high of 81 in Grand Rapids today,
79 in Muskegon and 80 in Holland.
That's a little below average,
but not by much.
Inside the three degree guarantee
told you 83 hit,
81 brings the accuracy streak
to 18 days in a row of just one
miss in the last month.
The forecasting when it comes to tomorrow,
we're expecting very similar
temperatures to today,
maybe down a couple degrees
but not significantly so.
That's why 13 weather ball is lit up
in green as no change is foreseen.
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And of course, those temperatures
tonight not going to move too far either
because the humidity levels are still
quite sticky outside dew points hanging
around in the 60s across West Michigan.
Those temperatures out there will
eventually push down out of the 70s and
in toward the mid 60s by tomorrow morning,
as we see mostly clear skies in place
overnight to partly cloudy skies at times.
We'll see temperatures rise toward
the upper 70s tomorrow afternoon with
plenty of sunshine around, but that's.
Sunshine will come along with some smoke.
In fact, the smoke forecast here
picking things up as we work our
way towards Sunday morning,
that's when we'll start to see the haze
really build in across West Michigan.
Periods of haze heavy at times throughout
the day on Sunday building back in as
we head into early Monday morning.
The haze and the smoke continues through
sunrise more Monday morning before pushing
out as we head toward Monday afternoon.
It'll continue on the east side
of the state a little bit longer.
Into the day on Monday because
of the smoke in the hay,
as we do have Clean Air Action
Day in place for Sunday.
In fact the entire state of Michigan,
including the UP under a Clean Air
Action Day as we head through Sunday.
Air quality levels expected to be unhealthy
for sensitive groups At times it may
reach unhealthy levels throughout the day.
Not quite as bad as a couple weeks ago,
but the worst we've seen since that round of
smoke moved through day planner out there.
64 overnight 79 on Sunday, 76 on.
Monday the haze moves
out by Monday afternoon.
Sunday night does have a round of
showers and storms that come through.
We'll keep a close eye on those temperatures.
79 on Sunday afternoon.
Some storms in the thumb.
As of Saturday evening,
those storms over in Wisconsin were dying
as they work their way toward Lake MI.
Not expected to see those make it
into our neck of the woods again.
Expected to die off in the overnight
hours tonight.
But again, they'll toss some clouds our way.
Maybe a stray sprinkle.
The forecast tonight.
You know, is mostly dry as we
head into the day on Sunday.
Mostly sunny skies,
but the smoke will be overhead.
Can't rule out a stray popup
shower in the afternoon,
but I think that chance is very small.
The chance of rain will pick up
though as we head into Sunday night.
That's when we see a brief
little boundary come through,
pops some cloud cover,
maybe some showers and storms.
I think the models here still
under doing that chance.
As we head into Sunday night.
I would expect to see some scattered
showers and storms push into the region.
Monday though,
back to mostly sunny skies.
We're going to stay mostly sunny
through the start of the week.
It won't be till Thursday
that we get a widespread
chance of rain that comes
back to the forecast.
Here's the temperatures what we're
expecting on Sunday 70s and upper 70s of
hazy skies on the West side of the state.
On the Lakeshore, we'll see temperatures
in the upper 70s for our northern zones,
hanging around in the 70s till low 80s
for Grand Rapids down to Kalamazoo.
13 inch side 10 day outlook.
Temperatures will hang around in the
70s through the start of the week,
but we are right back with humidity
and 80s as we head toward Wednesday.
Also another round of some hazy skies.
We'll see a thunderstorm chance on
Thursday drop temperatures and get rid of
the humidity for Friday and for Saturday.
Comes back as we head toward the
end of the forecast with another
round of some possible storms and
some haze to round out your 10 day.
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If you're out and about on Sunday, again,
watch out for the air quality concerns.
Watch out for some higher waves to up to
three feet on central portions of lake
MI 1 to 2 foot waves on the northern
and the southern sides of the lake.
Water temperatures have returned
to a mostly mild level,
upper 60s and low 70s now.
All across Lake MI,
of course, earlier this week was pretty
active when it came to severe weather,
and those who live in Colon, a village
about 25 minutes east of Three Rivers,
had to clean up from a weak tornado
that pushed through the region.
It was on the ground for about 5
minutes and about 3 miles, 13.
On Your Side's Micah Cho has a look at some
of the damage done by that tornado. Video
from high above Colon,
Michigan showing the aftermath of an EF1
tornado that hit the village Wednesday night.
The National Weather Service
confirms just after 11:00 o'clock PM,
the tornado touched down on the
ground for 5 minutes.
The path of the twister spanning
3 miles Millray storage facility
received a lot of that damage,
with one of the buildings having
its entire roof stripped off.
This video shows belongings in
storage units uncovered and exposed.
Pieces of the roof can also be seen
scattered throughout the village,
like here against this light pole,
and again here in the middle of a bean field.
Colin wasn't the only area Wednesday night
under thunderstorm and tornado warnings.
Parts of Van Buren,
Allegan, Kalamazoo,
Berry and Ionia counties also made the list.
Micah Cho, 13 on your side.
And when we now know that Storm was
an E F1 tornado in Colon that night,
little was known outside of the fact
that damage had been left behind
after the storms went through.
But that unknown does not stop
the hard working volunteers from
the Colon Community Fire and
Rescue team from responding.
I was able to speak with the chief
from their team earlier this week.
That team by the way,
just under 20 in number.
They detailed how they responded that
night and what they did to make sure that.
Their entire community was
safe and accounted for.
We got there pretty quick.
We're probably there 3 or 4 minutes to
get on scene as we're a volunteer service
so we're all at home with our families.
We get paged out and then we respond.
Once we got on scene to see assess
what we had, we split up a quite
a few groups of people and went
out and assessed our whole area.
We we cover about 36 square miles so.
Pretty much all 36 square miles
got assessed at some point in time.
A small team doing absolutely everything in
their power to make sure everyone was safe,
blocking traffic and keeping
people away from the power lines.
Definitely great work by that team to
look out for their friends and neighbors.
Of course, after the storms
moved through Colon,
some did report that they weren't
able to hear the tornado sirens as
the storms came through the region.
Believe it or not,
this is not an unexpected occurrence
and you're not actually supposed to
hear the storm sirens inside your home.
Tom Talbot from the Colon Community
Fire and Rescue Team told me
more about their siren system.
And when that siren goes off,
it is a steady 3 second
or three minute alarm.
And once that alarm is done.
It will not sound unless they are requested
to sound it again by either our agency,
Emergency Management or law enforcement
or the National Weather Service.
But they're primarily used for people
who are standing out in their yards,
who may not know that there's a warning
coming just to give them a heads up and say,
hey, you know, you should probably
start thinking about heading inside.
And as he said, these sirens
are mainly for outdoor use.
Inside your house,
you need to have a different plan
and the best plan of action that's
going to be a weather radio.
Think of this like a smoke
detector for severe weather.
You can set it up for the counties
and the alerts you want to get.
These things are allowed
so they will wake you up.
And you can also set up emergency
alerts on your phone if you
have an iPhone or an Android.
Just dig into the notification settings
and look for emergency alerts.
And moving on from the storms
earlier this week, on Friday,
Senator Gary Peters visited West
Michigan to check out a blueberry farm,
advocating for his SWAT Act proposal.
The bill would help Michigan farmers stop
the spread of Spotted wing Drosville.
I'm not sure if I said that one correctly,
but it's a type of fruit fly and
it's an invasive species that can
ruin cherry and blueberry crops.
Peters says that the act would
create a fund with the USDA that
would help keep preventative
measures cheaper for farm owners.
This particular pest has a particularly
big impact on on on Michigan,
which is why it's in the farm
bill to reduce cost for for
our farmers and our growers.
Peters hopes the bill would be
included in the 2023 Farm Bill.
Now you're up to date on the latest
forecast and some weather and related
news from here in West Michigan.
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Plus I'm meteorologist Michael Barons.