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Rainfall over Lake Michigan, as seen from Newport State Park in July, 2016. The climate of Door County, Wisconsin is tempered by Green Bay and Lake Michigan. There are fewer extremely cold days and fewer hot days than in areas of Wisconsin directly to the west. Lake waters delay the coming of spring as well as extend mild temperatures in the ...
Lake Michigan recorded wave heights of 20 to 22 feet and wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph. The southern end of Lake Michigan experienced a lake level rise of 15 inches as the winds pushed water down the lake. [30] [31] Lake Huron experienced 23-foot waves and a wind gust of 74 mph was recorded at Fort Gratiot at the southern end of the lake. [32]
These are the extremes in weather records for Michigan, a state in the Great Lakes region of the Midwestern United States. Temperature. Overall. The ...
The Meridian Boundary Fire burned 8,586 acres near Grayling, Michigan in 2010.. The U.S. state of Michigan has been the site of several major wildfires.The worst of these were in the lumbering era of the late-1800s when lumbering practices permitted the buildup of large slash piles and altered forest growth patterns which may have contributed to size of the wildfires.
Lake Michigan (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume [5] (1,180 cu mi; 4,900 km 3) and depth (923 ft; 281 m) after Lake Superior and the third-largest by surface area (22,405 sq mi; 58,030 km 2), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron.
Nonetheless, several cities in Michigan, including Holland and Manistee (across Lake Michigan from Peshtigo) and Port Huron (at the southern end of Lake Huron), also had major fires on the same day. These fires, along with many other fires of the 19th century had the same basic causes: small fires coupled with unusually dry weather. [7] [8
June 21–22, 2015 Severe Weather Event: June 21–22, 2015: Winds of 122 mph (196 km/h) recorded on personal weather station near Hayes, South Dakota before it was destroyed. [39] 2015 Midwest Derecho: July 12–13, 2015: A powerful derecho first formed in a cluster in Todd and Douglas Counties in Minnesota and then spread to the east and ...
When the new boundary intersected the older one, a thunderstorm developed near Iron Mountain, Michigan. This interaction began to drive the original boundary farther South into Wisconsin. [2] Radar image of the severe thunderstorms moving over Wisconsin and Michigan at 5:05 CDT (22:05 UTC).