Heat Builds in the West; Extremely Critical Fire Weather in the Northwest

A heat wave over the Southwest will intensify this week, peaking and expanding into the Intermountain West and northern High Plains this weekend. Critical to extremely critical fire weather conditions are forecast from the Northwest and the northern Great Basin this weekend. Particularly Dangerous Situation Red Flag Warnings have been issued. Read More >

Overall, the month of January in Southwest Lower Michigan is expected to be warmer and wetter than normal. That is not to say we will not have periods of very cold temperatures, but that the warmer periods, when the entire month is averaged, will prevail. For the last 10 Januarys, 5 were warmer than normal, 2 were colder than normal and 3 where near normal between 2011 and 2020. As for precipitation, there was 5 Januarys that were wetter than normal, 4 were near normal and there was 1 below normal precipitation for the Januarys between 2011 and 2020. There is clearly a trend toward wetter Januarys. This used area wide data all of our long term climate stations averaged together.

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Heat Builds in the West; Extremely Critical Fire Weather in the Northwest

The Southwest Michigan Forecast For January