The Labor Day weekend weather is fairly straightforward, but I think you may be surprised because of two factors.

The first and probably most important part of a holiday weekend forecast is whether it will rain or not. We have a dry weekend on the way. It’s Michigan and a long holiday weekend, so there’s always a small exception on the totally dry forecast. This weekend there will be a showery pattern Friday afternoon over the eastern part of the Thumb. That’s all the rain we have to talk about. Just to show you the quiet, dry weather, here is the forecast animation of the rain areas in three hour increments.

One thing you might notice is the light green indicating spotty rain on Labor Day. Ignore this. Weather computer models will often over-forecast the lightest of rain. So it should b

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