West BranchY31
At an airfield/10.2 mi away/859 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rifle River State Recreation Area, Michigan
State Recreation Area in Ogemaw County, Michigan51°
54°/41°
Light rain·
Feels like 51°·Light breeze 4 mph ESE
Coming up. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 12 AM (74%).
Now. Rifle River State Recreation Area is 51° and light rain at 12 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 5 AM. Tonight falls to about 28° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 26°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:32 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 11 hours 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
20Air quality
87%Humidity
88%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
51feels51
74%
Today
Oct 16
5441
82%
13mph
Sat
Oct 17
5526
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6533
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6736
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6836
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6837
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6839
11%
51°
54°41°
55°26°
65°33°
67°36°
68°36°
68°37°
68°39°
As of 12:00 AM in Rifle River State Recreation Area, Michigan.
Air quality
The air at Rifle River State Recreation Area
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Northcentral-Northeast Lower (MI), 31 miles off.
20Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)3Good-
- Ozone20Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Rifle River State Recreation Area
0.61 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.61in
- Last 3 days
- 1.30in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 47%
Visibility
How far you can see at Rifle River State Recreation Area, the next 45 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 1 AM, under a mile for 4 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 6.98 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 862 ft
- County
- Ogemaw County
- State
- Michigan
- Latitude
- 44.3633° N
- Longitude
- 84.0555° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Rifle River State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
MI-02 Rose CityMC083
Beside a road/10.9 mi away/1,342 ft/480 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alger RAWSAGRM4
A remote fire weather station/16.5 mi away/771 ft/91 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW9703CW9703
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.0 mi away/586 ft/276 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
LuptonLUPM4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.2 mi away/919 ft/57 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Rose City 0.5 EMI-OG-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/936 ft/74 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Lupton (LUPM4), 4.2 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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Near Rifle River State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Luptoncommunity, 5 mi
- Rose Citycity, 5 mi
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- Sterlingvillage, 23 mi