11K without power after storms but relief coming to Metro Detroit

DETROIT — Clusters of Metro Detroit residents are without power after another round of storms on Monday night, but the National Weather Service projects some relief ahead this week with cooler temperatures in store.

A total of 11,818 DTE Energy customers were without power as of 2 p.m.. Of those, more than 1,000 homes in Dearborn were experiencing outages as of 1 p.m. Tuesday, according to the utility company's outage map.

Another approximately 324 people were without power in Garden City, while less than 100 people in Southwest Detroit had no power, according to the map.

Dearborn received the most rain Monday night, with 1.4 inches of precipitation from the late evening into Tuesday morning, said Kyle Klein, a meteorologist with NWS Detroit.

The Detroit Metropolitan Airport received 0.55 inches of rain, slightly more than the Coleman A. Young International Airport's 0.43 inches of rain.

Also on the higher end of precipitation Monday night, Livonia received 1.05 inches of rain, while the weather service logged 1.07 inches of rain in Plymouth.

"A heavy rain band was kind of on the north end of Wayne County," Klein said.

NWS has continued to issue a flood warning for the Huron River near Hamburg, Milford and Ann Arbor. Drivers should turn around when encountering flooded roads, the weather service stated in a flood statement issued at noon on Tuesday.

Monday night's storms came as an upper trough made it way south from Canada into the United States, Klein said. The trough will arrive over the Great Lakes by Wednesday, shifting cool air from Canada towards Metro Detroit as it pushes hot, humid air further south.

The weather service expects temperatures to breach temperatures in the low-to-mid 80s Tuesday, though the weather will be slightly cooler in the week ahead, NWS Detroit announced in an X post Tuesday morning.

Wednesday holds some chances of scattered showers and thunderstorms, but temperatures will stay in the upper 70s at the most, according to NWS. The rain should stop Thursday through the weekend.

Metro Detroit temperatures will be approximately 8 to 10 degrees cooler than average for mid-July in the week ahead, but the difference isn't highly significant, Klein said.

"The cool airmass is definitely going to be below normal but it's not unheard of," he said.