GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — If you are like most homeowners across West Michigan without a sprinkler system, your lawn is likely brown and crispy because of the lack of rainfall.
It was quite a wet spring until the beginning of May. But whatever surplus rainfall we were able to bank has whittled away in the past 1.5 months.
Grand Rapids is running a precipitation deficit of nearly 4 inches since May; Muskegon is now down 2.5 inches.
A map of 48-hour rainfall estimates shows it’s been feast or famine across the region. Central and southern Michigan has been dry while areas across the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin have experienced flooding rains.