MDOT siteMC112
Beside a road/6.5 mi away/591 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Bayside Woods Beach, Michigan
Beach in Grand Traverse County, Michigan47°
53°/41°
Light rain·
Feels like 43°·Gentle breeze 9 mph N
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 9 AM, the chance peaking at 62% around 10 AM.
Now. Bayside Woods Beach is 47° and light rain at 8 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:36 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
92%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
47feels43
45%
Today
Oct 16
5341
92%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5534
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6240
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6443
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6740
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6941
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6846
16%
47°
53°41°
55°34°
62°40°
64°43°
67°40°
69°41°
68°46°
As of 8:00 AM in Bayside Woods Beach, Michigan.
Air quality
The air at Bayside Woods Beach
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Northwest Lower (MI), 5 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)2Good-
- Ozone24Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bayside Woods Beach
0.62 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.62in
- Last 3 days
- 0.62in
Visibility
How far you can see at Bayside Woods Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 3 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing WNW 285°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 45002, 54.0 mi away.
Waves at buoy 45002, North Michigan
- Wave height
- 3.0 ft
- Period
- 5 s
- From
- NNE (33°)
- Swell
- 0.0 ft at 9 s from NNW
- Wind waves
- 3.0 ft at 5 s from NNE
- Water
- 60 °F
- Read
- Fri 7:50 AM
- Distance
- 54.0 mi
Wave height is the significant height: the mean of the highest third of the waves. The period is the time between the waves carrying the most energy.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 7:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | NNE (33°) |
| Fri 6:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 5 s | NE (39°) |
| Fri 5:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 5 s | NNE (26°) |
| Fri 4:50 AM | 4.3 ft | 5 s | NNE (15°) |
| Fri 3:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | NNE (16°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | ENE (76°) |
| Fri 1:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 4 s | E (83°) |
| Fri 12:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 4 s | ESE (106°) |
| Thu 11:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 4 s | ESE (110°) |
| Thu 10:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | E (101°) |
| Thu 9:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | ESE (119°) |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | SE (132°) |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | ESE (107°) |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | ESE (109°) |
| Thu 5:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | ESE (110°) |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | ESE (119°) |
| Thu 3:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | SE (124°) |
| Thu 2:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | SE (130°) |
| Thu 1:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | SE (141°) |
| Thu 12:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | SE (126°) |
| Thu 11:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | SE (126°) |
| Thu 10:50 AM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 9:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | ENE (77°) |
| Thu 8:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | ENE (76°) |
Beach
- County
- Grand Traverse County
- State
- Michigan
- Latitude
- 44.8461° N
- Longitude
- 85.5577° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Bayside Woods Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Traverse CitTVC
At an airfield/7.3 mi away/623 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW3308GW3308
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.5 mi away/900 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
The Bear RAWSSBDM4
A remote fire weather station/24.4 mi away/942 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Old Mission 3SSWOMSM4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/653 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Traverse City 0.9 NNEMI-GT-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/594 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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