As Southeast Michigan gets closer to the official start of Summer our sunsets become later.
Tonight the sun will set at 8:59 p.m. before setting at 9 p.m. Thursday night. Note this is following the reporting station at Detroit Metro Airport in Romulus for climatological purposes.
Sunsets will continue to be later into early July, when the sunset time will be 9:13 p.m.
We start seeing earlier sunsets on July 4th, losing less than a minute or so of daylight a day to begin the month. By the end of July, we’re losing around 2 minutes of daylight per day.
The last 9 p.m. sunset for this Summer will be on July 24th, with the sun setting at 8:59 p.m. July 25th.
In regards to the sun coming up, our current sunrise time is 6:02 a.m. The sunrise will be at 6 a.m. or earlier throughout the month of June before starting to become later in July.
Luckily we’ll see plenty of sun in the near forecast.
While the best moisture and rain chances will be well to our south today, Southeast Michigan has an isolated shower and non-severe thunderstorm chance this evening.
Rain chances end late tonight with clouds decreasing into tomorrow morning. Low temperatures will be in the mid 50s to near 50° in our northern-most neighborhoods.
Thursday will be comfortable with highs in the low 70s under mostly sunny skies.
We’ll see plenty of sunshine all the way into next week. Check out the difference in forecasted moisture in the Great Lakes from Wednesday to Friday - much drier to end the week.
We’ll turn warmer for Friday with afternoon temperatures back near 80°, then settle into the mid and upper 70s through the weekend.