MI-05 New BuffaloMC091
Beside a road/2.5 mi away/702 ft/82 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Grand Beach until 11 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this afternoon, from about 3 PM, the chance peaking at 64% around 4 PM.
Now. Grand Beach is 53° and overcast at 5 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (62%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:04 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:55 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 day is 11 hours 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Grand Beach, Michigan.
Air quality
Index 10, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, South Bend (IN), 27 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.89 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.9 miles Fri 7 PM, under a mile for 1 hour.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Grand Beach, MichiganReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Grand Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
MI-05 New BuffaloMC091
Beside a road/2.5 mi away/702 ft/82 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW8280EW8280
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.0 mi away/630 ft/10 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
St JosephSJOM4
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.9 mi away/587 ft/33 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/30.5 mi away/627 ft/7 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
New Buffalo 1.7 SWMI-BN-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/619 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NilesNILM4
At a cooperative observer's station/27.0 mi away/650 ft/30 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 30.5 mi from Grand Beach, Michigan. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,100 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
56.0 F with a dew point of 52.0 F, 86 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
From the west (280 degrees) at 23 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Benton Harbor, 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.