Mackinaw CityMC024
Beside a road/4.7 mi away/646 ft/85 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 11 PM (98%).
Now. Carp Lake is 46° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (100%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Carp Lake, Michigan.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Eastern Upper Peninsula (MI), 59 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.39 in in the last 24 hours, 0.70 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.2 miles Fri 3 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Carp Lake, MichiganReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Carp Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mackinaw CityMC024
Beside a road/4.7 mi away/646 ft/85 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mackinaw CityNDBC-MACM4
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
PellstonPLN
At an airfield/8.8 mi away/712 ft/19 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1094GW1094
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.5 mi away/583 ft/148 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Carp Lake 0.8 WMI-EM-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/719 ft/12 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Cross Village 1 ECRSM4
At a cooperative observer's station/12.5 mi away/719 ft/12 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.8 mi from Carp Lake, Michigan. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:02 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 600 ft, broken at 1,600 ft, overcast at 2,100 ft; the ceiling is 600 ft; visibility 9 mi.
49.0 F with a dew point of 47.0 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 600 ft.
From the east (80 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Pellston, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
66 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.