Our conditions this week were Moderately Wet with 0.44" of rain falling on top of the residual effects of the all the rain that we received 2 weeks ago. The Kalamazoo River and local Millrace continued rising all week, and appeared to have peaked on Thursday, slowly receding afterwards. This flooding closed our local River Walk and flooded local woodlands along the river closing some footpaths (see 3 attached photos). There continues to be a lot of standing water in local farm field and woodlands. Grass is greening up and started to grow, though lawn weeds are currently growing faster and starting to bloom. Maple trees, fruit trees and lilacs are budding, and some appear to be in early leaf stage. Daffodils, a few tulips, hyacinths, dandelions and a few forsythia bushes are blooming. Temperatures this week have been roller-coastering with daily highs ranging from 36F to 70F, with a couple mornings of hard frost: yesterday morning, typifying the temperature swings, I noticed a softball game where most the infielders were wearing winter coats.