GRAND RAPIDS IS DESERVINGLY WET.

Another Day, Another Deluge. Honestly, What Did You Expect?

Grand Rapids is experiencing… weather. Groundbreaking, I know. The National Weather Service, in a stunning display of stating the obvious, notes an “active spring-like pattern.” Translation: it’s wet. Very wet. And predictably, we’re being subjected to it.

Heartside is currently drowning in a 93% chance of precipitation, shifting from pathetic morning drizzle to the far more aggressive scattered thunderstorms this afternoon. Fifty-nine degrees Fahrenheit. Fifty-nine! In April. This isn't spring; it’s a lukewarm swamp. Winds are howling out of the east-southeast at 10-20 mph, just adding insult to injury. Expect to be soaked. Expect to be miserable.

And, naturally, The Weather Channel is crowing about its supposed accuracy from 2021-2024. As if predicting rain is some Herculean feat. It’s water falling from the sky! Anyone with a functioning pair of eyes could have seen this coming. They’re boasting about past successes while we’re all actively getting drenched. Pathetic.

The air is thick with humidity, the dew point is probably somewhere near my rapidly diminishing patience, and the UV index is irrelevant because the sun hasn’t dared show its face all day. Frankly, if you left the house without a boat, you made a mistake. Don’t bother checking the ten-day forecast, either. It will undoubtedly involve more of this.