MI-01 EscanabaMC106
Beside a road/4.2 mi away/650 ft/38 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 4 AM, the chance peaking at 74% around 7 AM.
Now. Gladstone is 44° and light rain at 4 AM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north-northwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:37 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 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Gladstone, Michigan.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Eastern Upper Peninsula (MI), 67 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 17, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.68 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Gladstone, MichiganReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Gladstone, 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 now5 instruments
MI-01 EscanabaMC106
Beside a road/4.2 mi away/650 ft/38 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Rapid RiverSTOM4
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.0 mi away/627 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW4786EW4786
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.6 mi away/691 ft/79 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
EscanabaESC
At an airfield/9.1 mi away/614 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Chatham 1 SE54810
At a climate reference station/33.9 mi away/875 ft/263 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Gladstone 0.6 SSWMI-DL-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/613 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Gladstone No. 2GLDM4
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/728 ft/116 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.1 mi from Gladstone, Michigan. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:07 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 800 ft, scattered at 6,000 ft, overcast at 7,000 ft; the ceiling is 7,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 46.4 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 800 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Escanaba, 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.