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Posted on Sun, Jul 31, 2011 : 2:52 p.m.

Ann Arbor-area temperatures to dip to mid-80s by midweek

By Sven Gustafson

A relatively hot late-July weekend around Tree Town has allowed the city and surrounding areas to dry out a bit from last week’s heavy rains. Isolated thunderstorms are possible early in the week while temperatures should dip to the low-80s by midweek.

The current temperature of 90 degrees feels more like 93, with humidity hovering around 45 percent. The overnight low for Ann Arbor should reach 70 degrees, with a slight chance of rain developing after 11 p.m.

The forecast for starting off the week is for more of the same, with Monday’s high reaching 92 degrees, a low of 67 and a slight chance of rain.

Tuesday sees more chance of isolated thunderstorms with highs in the low 90s and a heat index around 95.

The mercury should dip into the mid-80s by Wednesday with mostly cloudy skies forecast with high temperatures hovering in 80s through next weekend.

Keep up-to-date on local conditions with our weather page.

Comments

treetowncartel

Mon, Aug 1, 2011 : 3:21 p.m.

Oh Summer, please don't go, I love everything about you.

cibachrome

Sun, Jul 31, 2011 : 11:52 p.m.

Of course, you can do a better job of weather forecasting by flipping a coin. If I ran my farm by the weather predictions in the A2 News, I would have been out of business long ago. In Fact, you can do better than 50% accuracy by taking the opposite tactic: Predicting rain? : plant, cut hay, harvest. Sunshine? : stay indoors and do equipment maintenance. Too bad these weather forecasters couldn't be held accountable for the financial ruin they cause.

Ross

Mon, Aug 1, 2011 : 3:06 a.m.

What is the point of a rant like this... do you think forecasters want to do a bad job? Is it all some hilarious conspiracy to them? By and large, weather forecasting has gotten much better over the last 15 years. Rain showers and thunderstorms are ridiculously hard to predict on hot and humid summer days - they just spawn out of nowhere when the atmosphere randomly becomes unstable enough. Watch the radar map sometime and see for yourself. Second, why blame annarbor.com for forecasting... they obviously don't have their own meteorologists on staff... Personally, I find the temperature forecasting generally accurate. Precipitation forecasts only hold when a serious front moves through.

WalkingJoe

Sun, Jul 31, 2011 : 7:16 p.m.

While I like summer weather better than winter... make that way better, I'm looking forward to some cooler temps.