This updates the previous post here.
The August 2014 temperature anomaly for Grand Rapids comes in at +0.2 degrees F, which lifts the total temperature anomaly for the eight months January through August from -26.5 to -26.3.
Eleven days with high temps of 80 or above in the second half of August helped turn the anomaly positive from -1.4.
The average anomaly per month has been -3.2875 degrees F.