While small areas of Michigan have had ample rain in the past two months, most of our state has been very dry.

Here’s the total rainfall in the past 60 days, back to July 11.

Notice the light green shaded areas covering a lot of the southern two-thirds of Lower Michigan. The light green indicates only two to four inches of total rain in the past two months. Most of Lower Michigan typically receives a little over six inches of rain in this past two-month period. Far northern Lower Michigan and the Upper Peninsula actually had more rain than the long-term average.

The map below tells the easy story of where we have been drier than normal in the past 60 days. The yellow and tan areas were drier than normal.

An area between Grand Rapids and Cadillac is four inches short of rain since July

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