FairportFPTM4
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.8 mi away/584 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Slag Beach, Michigan
Beach in Delta County, Michigan40°
59°/37°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 35°·Light breeze 7 mph W
Now. Slag Beach is 40° and mostly clear at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:38 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 53 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
86%Humidity
13%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
40feels35
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 17
5937
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
6143
23mph
Mon
Oct 19
6244
13mph
Tue
Oct 20
6345
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6449
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6550
partly cloudy day
Fri
Oct 23
6449
partly cloudy day
40°
59°37°
61°43°
62°44°
63°45°
64°49°
65°50°
64°49°
As of 7:00 AM in Slag Beach, Michigan.
Air quality
The air at Slag Beach
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Eastern Upper Peninsula (MI), 57 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)7Good-
- Ozone16Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 16
- GoodTodayOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Mon 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Slag Beach
0.16 in in the last 24 hours, 0.76 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.16in
- Last 3 days
- 0.76in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 21%
Visibility
How far you can see at Slag Beach, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing W 272°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 45002, 28.7 mi away.
Waves at buoy 45002, North Michigan
- Wave height
- 1.3 ft
- Period
- 3 s
- From
- NW (309°)
- Swell
- 0.3 ft at 5 s from NE
- Wind waves
- 1.3 ft at 3 s from NW
- Water
- 59 °F
- Read
- Sat 6:50 AM
- Distance
- 28.7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 6:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | NW (309°) |
| Sat 5:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 4 s | N (3°) |
| Sat 4:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 4 s | NNE (16°) |
| Sat 3:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | NNE (31°) |
| Sat 2:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | NNE (12°) |
| Sat 1:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 5 s | NNE (17°) |
| Sat 12:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 4 s | N (9°) |
| Fri 11:50 PM | 4.3 ft | 6 s | NNE (18°) |
| Fri 10:50 PM | 4.9 ft | 5 s | NNE (15°) |
| Fri 9:50 PM | 5.6 ft | 6 s | NNE (20°) |
| Fri 8:50 PM | 6.6 ft | 6 s | NNE (23°) |
| Fri 7:50 PM | 6.9 ft | 6 s | NNE (17°) |
| Fri 6:50 PM | 7.9 ft | 7 s | NNE (15°) |
| Fri 5:50 PM | 8.5 ft | 6 s | N (3°) |
| Fri 4:50 PM | 8.2 ft | 7 s | N (10°) |
| Fri 3:50 PM | 7.2 ft | 6 s | N (7°) |
| Fri 2:50 PM | 7.2 ft | 6 s | NNE (16°) |
| Fri 1:50 PM | 6.2 ft | 6 s | NNE (19°) |
| Fri 12:50 PM | 5.6 ft | 5 s | NNE (15°) |
| Fri 11:50 AM | 5.6 ft | - | N (4°) |
| Fri 10:50 AM | 5.2 ft | 5 s | N (359°) |
| Fri 9:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 4 s | NNE (16°) |
| Fri 8:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | NE (34°) |
| Fri 7:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | NNE (33°) |
Beach
- County
- Delta County
- State
- Michigan
- Latitude
- 45.7174° N
- Longitude
- 86.6702° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Slag Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station EW4786EW4786
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.8 mi away/691 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CooksMC007
Beside a road/16.1 mi away/682 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
EscanabaESC
At an airfield/20.4 mi away/614 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Garden Corners 0.8 NWMI-DL-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.8 mi away/587 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Garden CornersGDCM4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.8 mi away/587 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Garden Corners (GDCM4), 13.8 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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Near Slag Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Gardenvillage, 7 mi
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- Rockcommunity, 34 mi
- Powersvillage, 41 mi
- Carneyvillage, 43 mi
- Chathamvillage, 45 mi
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- Munisingtown, 48 mi
- Daggettvillage, 48 mi
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