COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Showers and thunderstorms are in the weather forecast through Monday and there are hopes any rain we get will help alleviate the dry conditions which have taken hold over the last three weeks.
Accuweather says there has been no measurable rain in Coldwater so far this month and no rain has been measured since June 27th. That is the only day of rain in Coldwater since June 22nd.
Coldwater normally gets over four inches of rain in July.
The brief shower that moved through Coldwater early Thursday morning missed the Branch County Memorial Airport where official weather data for the city is gathered.
While Branch County and the surrounding area is not officially considered to be in a drought, the latest report from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows most of the lower peninsula north of Lansing is considered to be “abnormally dry” while the northern part of the Thumb is considered to be in a “moderate drought”.
Nearly 40 percent of the State of Michigan is either abnormally dry or in a moderate drought, up sharply from just seven percent the week before.
