BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) – Ten days into the merry month of May and we are still talking about frost but the weather is expected to warm up later this week.
Branch County was included in a frost advisory Monday morning. The temperature at the Branch County Memorial Airport dropped to 32 just after 6:00 a.m..
The mercury dropped to 31 degrees in Marshall and Jackson with some locations reporting fog and visibilities less than a quarter mile.
The average date for the final frost of the season in Branch County is May 15.
The National Weather Service is forecasting at least two more days of below normal temperatures with highs on Monday and Tuesday only in the mid 50s. The average high temperature for Coldwater on May 10 is 66 degrees.
Sunday was a cold, wet and miserable day with Coldwater’s high topping out at 49 degrees. The M.S.U. Extension Service weather station at the Bloom Dairy Fair measured .38 of an inch of rain on Sunday. Heavier amounts of rain stayed to the south of Branch County. Fort Wayne and some others areas of northeast Indiana measured over two inches of rain.
A gradual warm is expected late this week. Highs are expected to be in the 60s on Thursday and Friday and around 70 over the weekend.
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