Record Rains
From the National Weather Service … Record rains across southwest lower Michigan…
Through the first 23 days of may… rainfall totals have exceeded or
are approaching record levels in the cities of Grand Rapids…
Lansing and Muskegon. Here are the monthly totals (through midnight
on the 24th)… along with normals for those cities:
May total may normal
Grand Rapids 8.28 inches 3.35 inches
Lansing 9.61 inches 2.71 inches
Muskegon 7.43 inches 2.95 inches
The Grand Rapids total now stands as the 4th wettest may on
record… Lansing is the wettest may on record… and Muskegon is the
second wettest may on record. The Muskegon total is only 0.02
inches away from the record.
Here are the previous top ten wettest Mays (in inches) for Grand
Rapids… Lansing and Muskegon. May 2004 is not included in this list.
Grand Rapids Lansing Muskegon
Amount/yr amount/yr amount/yr
10.01/2001 7.97/1943 7.45/2000
9.59/2000 7.42/1945 6.48/1990
8.29/1981 6.98/2000 6.20/1904
7.18/1911 6.57/1912 5.72/1905
6.83/1942 6.57/1989 5.62/1933
6.63/1976 6.07/2001 5.62/1984
6.49/1956 5.92/1892 5.26/1921
6.31/1929 5.72/1938 5.25/1945
6.25/1938 5.65/1883 5.11/1976
5.97/1905 5.59/1880 4.94/1956
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