MI-03 HastingsMC092
Beside a road/6.3 mi away/906 ft/54 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Dowling is 56° and overcast at 5 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west at 15 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 46° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:45 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 3 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Dowling, Michigan.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Kalamazoo (MI), 29 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
0.61 in in the last 24 hours, 0.88 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 6 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Dowling, MichiganReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Dowling, 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-03 HastingsMC092
Beside a road/6.3 mi away/906 ft/54 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station K8SWR-13K8SWR-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.9 mi away/888 ft/72 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Battle CreekBTL
At an airfield/14.6 mi away/951 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
RAWS - BradleyBDLM4
A remote fire weather station/21.8 mi away/764 ft/196 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Battle Creek 11.7 NNWMI-BR-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/981 ft/21 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WWTPHASM4
At a water treatment plant/9.3 mi away/784 ft/176 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.6 mi from Dowling, Michigan. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,300 ft; the ceiling is 1,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
57.0 F with a dew point of 54.0 F, 90 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,300 ft.
From the west (270 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 35 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 43 mph.
The full report of Battle Creek, 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.