DETROIT (WWJ) – September has come and gone, and we’re already well into October. But Wednesday’s temperatures in Metro Detroit felt more like a late summer day than mid-fall, and we could be in for more of the same on Thursday.
Things are going to change in a hurry this weekend though, with AccuWeather expecting a sharp drop in temperatures this weekend.
Will Thursday be the last taste of summer we get in Metro Detroit? That’s the question WWJ’s Brooke Allen had for AccuWeather meteorologist Brian Thompson on this week’s “Weather Wednesday” segment.
“I’m gonna say it’s probably not,” Thompson said. “I still think we may sneak in a 70-degree day or two next week after this little cooldown late in the week.”
That cooldown? Thompson says it looks like Metro Detroit will get “the coolest air we’ve seen this season.”
“By the time we get to Friday, we’re looking at highs in the 50s, same goes for Saturday,” Thompson said.
It’ll be even colder than that Friday night, according to Thompson, with low temperatures dipping into the mid-to-low-30s.
That could bring “relatively widespread frost,” Thompson said.
While Southeast Michigan is preparing for colder weather, the Southeastern U.S. is still dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, which made landfall – twice – last week. Thompson talked about how this historic storm compared to other recent storms.
“We’ve had a lot of strong storms that have made landfall in really just the last five or six years along the Gulf Coast,” Thompson said. “We’ve had storms like Harvey that dumped all that rain in parts of Texas. And there have been several others that have made landfall as strong, major hurricanes in recent years after what was kind of a lull in that area earlier in the decade.”
But as for Ian, “this is probably going to be the benchmark storm in Southwest Florida.”
“Charley was kind of the most recent storm that was referred to a lot back in 2004, but it certainly looks like Ian turned out to be bigger and stronger than Charley was, impacting a lot of areas with storm surge and certainly a lot of rain and the strong winds too,” Thompson said.
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