The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment have declared Wednesday as a Clean Air Action Day for Allegan, Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, Kent, Livingston, Mason, Muskegon, Oceana, Ottawa, St Joseph, and Van Buren counties. This means that you should avoid activities which lead to ozone formation. Such activities are refueling vehicles or topping off when refueling, using gasoline powered lawn equipment, and using charcoal lighter fluid. Positive activities include car pooling, biking to work, delaying or combining errands and using water based paints. It is recommended that active people, and people with respiratory diseases (for example, asthma) limit prolonged times outside. There is also a Heat Advisory until midnight Wednesday Night for Berrien, Branch, Cass, Hillsdale, Livingston, Midland, Shiawassee, and St Joseph counties. Highs on Wednesday will be in the low to mid-90s, with heat indices (how hot it feels) in the upper-90s to near 100 degrees. With dewpoints and low temperatures in the low to mid-70s, it will feel very hot and humid.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

SPC Shifts All of the Area Into "Slight Risk"



The Storm Prediction Center has shifted the Slight Risk of severe weather into the entire lower peninsula of Michigan with its 12:30 PM update. One storm currently (12:50 PM) between Green Bay and Manitowoc in Wisconsin may be severe in Mason and Manistee counties as it progresses eastward throughout the next hour or two. A line of storms that was trucking along earlier from Iowa and now into southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois has killed itself progressing east. Summing it up, there is a very slight chance of a strong to severe storm through about 4 or 5 PM. Our main threat of storms will enter very late this evening and into the overnight hours. Our main threats are scattered damaging winds and large hail, with an isolated tornado not out of the realm of possibility. The main stuff will be in southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois, northeast Missouri, and eastern Iowa, but a few severe storms here look to be a good possibility. We'll keep you covered throughout the afternoon into the overnight. Always check out our Facebook and Twitter pages for the latest.

~ Forecaster Ben Kouch

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