Tornadoes strike Lapeer County and Charlotte. A huge waterspout, last of a series of tornadoes that began in Iowa, is sighted from ships on southern Lake Michigan on the evening of June 4. Damaging winds from the same storm system strike near Grand Haven later that night. Lansing records its lowest temperature ever at -37 degrees. Early autumn records temperatures of 30 degrees in August and 7 degrees in October in Lansing.
State is a tinderbox.
An unofficial -33 degrees at Grand Rapids on December 24, the coldest ever reported there. Heavy snows and intense cold. Coldest year on record at Detroit, Lansing, Escanaba, Marquette, and every other weather station in the state that kept records that year. Warmest winter ever in upper Midwest. The soggy autumn, however, comes too late to prevent one of Michigan's greatest disasters ever, a week of forest fires in the Thumb from Aug. 31 to Sept. 6.