COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Fall arrived early today in Michigan while you were sleeping with the Autumnal Equinox at 4:21 a.m., and even though there was a fall-like nip in the air this morning with a low temperature in Coldwater of 46 degrees, forecasters are predicting summer like temperatures for the rest of the week. In fact, because of an El Nino rising in the South Pacific, the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids is saying we could be transitioning from a cooler than normal summer to a nicer than normal fall and winter, basically with warmer temperatures and also drier than normal with the pattern expected to hold even into the early start of the winter period.
Meteorologist Mark Sekelsky says the El Nino began a few months ago and will change the pattern we have been in for the last two years. That means weather that is more like the rest of the planet, which has really been feeling the effects of global warming first hand for the past two years, while the Great Lakes States have been the exception, with cooler summers and arctic-like winters.
