Our conditions this week were Mildly Wet with 0.92" of rain falling. We are still dealing with the residual effects of the all the heavy rain and storms that we received earlier in the month. Local farm fields are drying, but there is still standing water in low spots of the fields and the woodlands still have quite a bit of standing pooled water. People are still busy cleaning up all the tree damage left by the EF-1 tornado that rampaged through the north end of Plainwell 2 weeks ago.  Southwest Michigan had a wake wind event after a storm this week that toppled many trees just south of us in Kalamazoo county; and it is thought that the ground is so soft from all the recent rains that the roots couldn't hold them up, so more trees than usual toppled over disrupting traffic, power lines and damaging many homes. Tree service businesses appear to be very busy right now. Grass is growing enough to require mowing. Fruit trees, red-buds dogwoods and lilacs are blooming. Bushes and maple trees are leafed out; and oak, black walnut, sycamore and catalpa trees are still in early bud stage. Daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, dandelions, vinca, phlox, bleeding hearts are blooming. Hasta, solomon seal, and ferns are growing lushly. Temperatures this week have been mostly cooler than average. April ended here with 9.05" of rain during the month, which is either record-breaking or close to record-breaking because it is 5.42" above our PRISM 30-year average of 3.63" for April!