Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is your cup
of Traverse City for the 04/15/2026.
And, it's tax day. And amongst other things,
we just wanna talk more about what's going
on in the weather.
It's,
crazy. We've had, like, six inches of rain
over the last
three days.
And,
the last I heard, the sheriff's department announced
that the Beitner Road bridge has failed.
I don't know what they mean by failed,
but
the upshot is Beitner Road is closed from
Chum's Corners down to,
oh, what is it? River Road there at
the roundabout.
That whole section is closed to through traffic
and the bridge is out, so that's
kinda crazy.
Also, South Airport Road at, Logan's Landing is
continued to be closed,
due to flooding over the over the bridges
there.
Not not cool. And I guess there's lots
of other flooding all over the place. The,
Traverse City area public schools are closed today.
First time I can ever remember that they
were closed due to flooding.
And, actually, the county had requested that they
close today because of
all the bridges
and construction
and everything else. You know, the interlock and
construction is in full force and of course
the three mile road closure
is in full force so
that limits a lot of, traffic. So
just be aware if you're out and about,
the traffic
might be a little squirrely,
and watch out for sinkholes.
I've seen some pictures online of,
giant sinkholes here and there.
And a little further out, the Pellston Airport,
was closed completely, I think, yesterday.
I think they might have one runway going
now,
but,
one of their runways were flooded. I don't
know if it was damaged, but, it was
definitely had, lots of standing water on it.
So,
man,
yeah, like I said, it's weird, weird weather.
Well, that's what happens when you have this
huge
blizzard and, you know, three feet of snow,
and then that all melts real quick, and
then you get a bunch of rain.
And I guess it's, our turn in the
barrel here, but I don't ever remember
this much rain in that short a time
and it causing so much trouble.
A
while back, we had our basement redone,
you know, Basement Systems of Michigan.
No. It was Ayers Basement Systems. Anyway, they
came in and broke the floor up, put
in drains, put in a double sump pump,
and all that and
because we had pretty routine flooding.
And, anyway, they,
they cleaned that up, and it was bone
dry in the basement until yesterday.
And,
our sump pumps, both of them have been
running pretty much constantly
for
a couple of days, so
they couldn't keep up. So we got a
little bit of water on the floor, nothing
crazy, but that has been bone dry since
they,
they put the basement back together.
So,
well, it is is what it is, I
guess.
So with that, let's look at the weather.
Slight chance of showers before 11AM,
then a chance of showers after 2PM. Patchy
fog before 11AM.
Otherwise, mostly cloudy with a high near 58.
Calm wind becoming north around five miles per
hour this afternoon. Chance precipitation
is 30%.
Tonight, chance of showers and thunderstorms,
patchy fog. Otherwise,
mostly cloudy
with a low around 47.
Calm winds and, and a chance of precipitation
of 50%.
On Thursday. 50%
chance of showers,
patchy fog before 1PM.
Otherwise, mostly cloudy with a high near 57.
Calm wind around,
five miles per hour.
So yeah. And it looks
like Friday might be sunny, but then
Saturday, Sunday
oh, jeez. And Sunday,
chance of snow showers.
Oh my gosh.
Will this weather, never end?
Anyway, happy tax day. Be careful out there
if you're driving around, and I will catch
you tomorrow.