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Beside a road/4.4 mi away/748 ft/59 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely this afternoon, from about 12 PM (53%).
Now. Rothbury is 57° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 46° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Rothbury, Michigan.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Ludington (MI), 25 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.54 in in the last 24 hours, 0.59 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rothbury, MichiganReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Rothbury, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
US31Mm1407MC160
Beside a road/4.4 mi away/748 ft/59 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW7666GW7666
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.3 mi away/574 ft/115 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
FreemontFFX
At an airfield/18.1 mi away/772 ft/83 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Muskegon CG Station, MuskegonNDBC-MKGM4
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
MontagueMTGM4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.4 mi away/659 ft/30 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Montague 1.5 WNWMI-MG-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/702 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.1 mi from Rothbury, Michigan. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 400 ft; the ceiling is 400 ft; visibility 3 mi.
53.6 F with a dew point of 53.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 400 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 2 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Freemont, 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.