Weekend weather forecast trending toward a drier, warmer time

The story on our weather this weekend in Michigan is becoming a happier story. It now looks like many of us could sneak through the weekend with no rain.

A few days ago family and friends were looking at weather apps and telling me this weekend’s weather looks lousy. There was an expectation that a concentrated area of rain would move through Michigan Friday into Saturday. There was also a storm system moving in from the south that could bring rain into far southern Michigan.

Now that storm system coming from the northwest is looking disorganized. The storm system coming from the south looks to only bring rain up to the Michigan border.

With the storm systems around the Great Lakes we will have quite a bit of cloudiness. I’d call it a mostly cloudy weekend, but not entirely cloudy. The middle part of Lower Michigan will have off and on sunshine.

Here is the radar forecast through the weekend. You see the numerous showers across the U.P. and just south of the southern Michigan border.

A good way to look at how much rain will fall from the radar forecast is to look at total rainfall.

Here are the total rainfall forecasts for Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon. It’s pretty much a dry weekend coming. Don’t cancel plans just because you see a rain drop under a cloud on the weather app you use.

While it will be dry, there will likely be clouds blocking the sunshine at times. The cloud cover forecasts for early afternoon Saturday shows thicker clouds north and far south with some decent sun in the middle of the state.

Sunday’s clouds should be more scattered with a touch more sunshine for us all.

Because the amount of rain has backed way off, the temperature expectations have gone up. Afternoon temperatures in the 70s are going to be common this weekend.

So it’s not going to be a rip-roaring hot, sunny summer weekend. It is going to be fairly warm and dry. Don’t cancel plans for any outdoor fun this weekend. Go for it.