Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is your cup
of Traverse City for the 04/14/2026.
I am Mike,
and
we are under a flood warning.
That,
it's a little higher than a flood watch
or a flash flood warning.
It's a whole
spiel about it over on the National Weather
Service, which is linked here. Usually, you know,
you go don't go to podcasting
for a,
you know, real time update or anything, but,
I think it's applicable. The warning goes through
tomorrow, 2PM,
mainly around the Boardman And Manistee Rivers,
but,
you know, could be anywhere.
There's a story in the ticker
that
I pulled up this morning, and, you know,
it says heavy rains this week are having
major impacts across Northern Michigan with more rain
still in the forecast
and a flood watch in effect through Wednesday.
Now it's a flood warning.
So their
story's a little behind the times.
The ticker spoke with multiple officials who
were on the ground Monday addressing everything from
retention wall failure,
fish pass site downtown,
to flooded roads and trails, to potential dam
breaches in outlying areas.
And, you know, the one that's been in
the news
the most is, of course, the Sheboygan
Dam, but,
Tippy Dam's another one that, was getting a
little sketchy.
They are,
releasing
some inch you know, some,
water out of the dams to relieve pressure,
but, that causes a little down, you know,
down the,
downriver
issues.
Yeah. Luckily,
where I'm at, yeah, we're susceptible
to a little flooding
on this
stretch of road, but, not
so much right here.
You know, my sump pump has been cranking
almost continuously.
Luckily, I have,
two sump pumps
in there, and the other one hasn't, hasn't
ran in a while. But,
you know, when both start running a lot,
yeah, we're we're getting a lot of, a
lot of rain. We had, like, I don't
know. I think it was a
inch and three quarters overnight or in the
last twenty four hours, and, you know, that's
just too much for around here. I know
I've been focusing on weather a lot here,
but,
you know, it,
it does impact us.
And and good news, though, the eight foot
pile of snow that was in my front
yard is now not there, so
that's a positive. Yeah. You can look on
the bright side.
That and and the coffee is
is warm and tasty,
as usual.
So but,
yeah. If you're
driving around, just make sure that, a, the
pavement is still there, and
b, that, if you drive across
flowing water,
be extremely careful or don't do it,
because water is a powerful thing.
You go check out the
link to the, weather services warning, and, the
ticker article has some pictures of
looks like a bridge is out.
It doesn't say where,
but,
looks like one one of the bridges
has
come apart at one end or the other,
and a lot of lot of pavement is
is going away.
There's another picture of a road.
I don't know. It looks like somewhere around
Logan's Landing, maybe part of the Tart Trail
that's underwater.
Yeah. That's where it is.
So, like I said, they they are not
captioning these pictures, but, yeah. Go check it
out. Yeah. Logan's Landing area definitely looks like
it's
it's getting a little,
a little rain.
A lot of rain.
So
with that, I guess we'll
look at the official forecast
for today.
Patchy fog before noon. Otherwise, partly sunny with
a high near 65. West wind around five
miles per hour. And then tonight, more rain.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 2AM, then isolated
showers. Mostly cloudy. A little low around 48.
Calm wind. Chance precipitation
is only 40%.
I would say it was a 100%, but
that's just me looking at the, aviation weather.
So,
anyway and tomorrow, chance of showers and thunderstorms
also possible after 2PM. Mostly cloudy with a
high near 63.
Calm wind becoming southwest around five miles per
hour in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is
50%.
And, yeah. It looks like, the rest of
the week until,
Friday.
Well, even Friday.
Friday night, anyway.
But, yeah. Every day, there's a chance of
precipitation.
So
stay dry
and be careful when you're out traveling around.
You you might find yourself
in in water. And hopefully, those dams hold
together. That's, that's always ugly when one of
those lets loose. I remember the one down
by
Coleman and
Sanford area there along
US 10
collapsed a few years ago and, definitely,
well,
okay. Here's here's a a a total
first world problem, but,
it took out a fair number of Pontiac
Fieros.
There's a there was a dealership down there
or a shop or whatever that specialized in
Fieros. I think it was in, Sanford.
I'm not sure. Either Coleman or Sanford.
And, that that rose the global price of,
of vintage
Pontiac Fierros
because a whole bunch of them got flooded.
Of course, this guy probably restored them, so
who knows? But,
anyway,
just a little side note there. Everybody have
a good day. Stay dry. Catch you tomorrow.