This amount of rain would have been welcomed spread over six months,” she said. “But we’ve gotten it in two months."

Part of northern Lower Michigan got blasted with the heaviest rain. The highest official rain measurement was 5.36″ at Crawford, MI. An area between Grayling and Frederic has radar rain estimates between six inches and eight inches. Anything colored in yellow had at least two inches total rainfall.

Likening the system to a merry-go-round, Pilié said weather forecasting models Thursday showed the storm doing a full loop around the southeast U.S. before circling back to the Gulf Coast, bringing increased rain chances and the potential for tropical development late next week.

There will be no tropical depression in the Gulf, at least this week. The National Hurricane Center on Thursday said an area of low pressure that had attracted the attention of weather watchers this week as it moved across the northern Gulf has moved inland in Louisiana as of Thursday evening.

The total rainfall Saturday shows you spotty quarter inch to half inch amounts, mostly in the southern half of Michigan. There certainly could be small areas up to one inch of rain, but that rain would still happen in just an hour or two. Also notice some areas of northern Michigan are projected to not get any rain at all.

Monday evening brought torrential rainfall and devastating flooding to the tri-state. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency for all 21 counties, urging residents across the state to remain at home and avoid all roadway travel.

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Our region will have "a relatively long dry streak" for “a full-on day, and maybe even pushing two days at times." So the emphasis here is on "relatively."