MidlandIKW
At an airfield/2.8 mi away/635 ft/9 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Midland until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Midland is 52° and light rain at 6 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:36 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 PM in Midland, Michigan.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, Bay Area-Thumb Area (MI), 31 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 5 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 8 miles Sun 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 6 instruments nearest Midland, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
MidlandIKW
At an airfield/2.8 mi away/635 ft/9 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
B-8 US-10 at M-47MC119
Beside a road/4.9 mi away/666 ft/40 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW3078FW3078
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.4 mi away/608 ft/18 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Saginaw Bay Light 1SBLM4
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.0 mi away/568 ft/58 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Midland 1.5 NNEMI-MD-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/653 ft/27 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MidlandMDLM4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.2 mi away/630 ft/4 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.8 mi from Midland, Michigan. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 4,100 ft, scattered at 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.8 F with a dew point of 35.6 F, 54 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,100 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 18 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Midland, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Midland (MDLM4), 1.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 23:58. measured daily
66 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.