Mark Torregrossa

Michigan

Chief Meteorologist at MLive

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Heat wave coming; How hot, how long

1 week ago | mlive.com | Mark Torregrossa

We definitely have the hottest stretch of weather we’ve had in several years here in Michigan. This won’t be true for the entire state, but certainly for the southern half of Lower Michigan. The upper-air pattern is going to take on the classic hot dome of air formation. Watch as the hot dome forms as we go through Saturday into Sunday. The hot dome won’t break down until around next Thursday. The big pinkish-red circle is the center of the hot dome.
Severe storms continue across Lower Michigan: Watch Torregrossa’s live severe weather coverage

1 week ago | mlive.com | Mark Torregrossa

For current severe weather coverage, watch the video below orclick here to watch on YouTube and join the chat and comment. Join us each day on our MLive weather page between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. weekdays when we do our live forecast. Want to see it later? You can catch up on the forecast by watching our video.
Severe storms now in Michigan: Watch Torregrossa’s live severe weather coverage and see updates

1 week ago | mlive.com | Mark Torregrossa

We’ve been telling you about the severe storms set to move across Michigan today. Now you can follow along as MLive Chief Meteorologist Mark Torregrossa does a live broadcast as the severe weather threats roll through the state - and see updates on storm warnings as they arise. Watch the video below orclick here to watch on YouTube and join the chat and comment. Severe thunderstorms are going to move east across the southern half of Lower Michigan through the evening hours.
Severe T-storm Watch now covers most of southern Lower Michigan

1 week ago | mlive.com | Mark Torregrossa

A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect across south-central and southeast Lower Michigan until 10 p.m. A line of severe thunderstorms in Indiana has evolved into a bow echo. This bow echo signifies a possible brief damaging wind gust as the line of storms moves through any location. The severe thunderstorm watch doesn’t officially cover the city of Grand Rapids. The severe thunderstorm watch stretches from Kalamazoo to Jackson and Lansing to Flint, Ann Arbor and the Detroit area.
Timeline on severe thunderstorms expected across southern Michigan this evening

1 week ago | mlive.com | Mark Torregrossa

A mature line of severe thunderstorms is going to roll across southern Lower Michigan this evening. Here’s the radar forecast and the always updated radar so you know when to expect possible severe thunderstorms. Here’s the best model we have at forecasting the movement and strength of severe thunderstorms in the short term. A line of severe thunderstorms in Indiana at 4:00 p.m. is just moving into southwest Lower Michigan.
‘A few intense tornadoes’ in new Tornado Watch for far southwest Michigan

1 week ago | mlive.com | Mark Torregrossa

The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued a tornado watch that covers most of Indiana and also a few of the southwest Lower Michigan border counties. SPC also mentions any tornadoes could be intense. There are tornadoes on the ground right now in Illinois. The heat and humidity are increasing over Indiana and the southern half of Lower Michigan. This newest tornado watch issued at around 1 p.m. Eastern covers the next area to have tornadic storms move into it.
Drought-ending heavy rain likely for Michigan, up to 4 inches targets one area

1 week ago | mlive.com | Mark Torregrossa

The strong storm system will have a large area of heavy rain. This heaviest rain looks like it will also fall on the only area of Michigan with remaining drought- the Saginaw Valley area. Here’s the total rain forecast from NOAA’s heavy rain prediction office. Notice the red shades are total amounts over 2.5 inches to as much as nearly four inches. The orange and yellow areas should have one to two inches of additional rain tonight and early Thursday.
A few tornadoes, damaging wind gusts over 70 mph threaten Michigan today

1 week ago | mlive.com | Mark Torregrossa

The fine-tuned severe weather forecast today highlights what parts of Michigan could have severe thunderstorms, and what types of severe weather we can expect. The severe thunderstorms should develop over west-central and southwest Lower Michigan sometime between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. and move into eastern Lower Michigan between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.This timing means the severe thunderstorms are going to be working with the most heat, humidity and energy of the hottest part of the day.
Severe storms could produce damaging winds, a few tornadoes: Watch Torregrossa’s live Michigan forecast

1 week ago | mlive.com | Mark Torregrossa

For today’s MLive Michigan Weather Forecast, watch the video below orclick here to watch on YouTube and join the chat and comment. Today’s forecast: Widespread thunderstorms will develop this afternoon over the western half of Lower Michigan and move into eastern Michigan by early evening. We have a large area of Lower Michigan painted with either the level 2 risk of severe storms or the level 3 risk (out of five levels). I’ll detail all of this in the live broadcast.
Heavy rain to fall over Michigan; See where 2 inches or more are expected

1 week ago | mlive.com | Mark Torregrossa

The afternoon weather data is honing in on where the heavy rain will fall with Wednesday’s coming storm. All of the latest data still shows the center of the storm system rolling from Muskegon to Saginaw Wednesday afternoon and night. Here’s the surface weather forecast tomorrow. You should be able to see the innermost circle on the pressure pattern which signifies the center of the storm.