At an airfield/5.6 mi away/591 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for South Rockwood until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. South Rockwood is 48° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:39 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 8:00 PM in South Rockwood, Michigan.
Air quality
Index 49, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Southeast (MI), 31 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 2 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.29 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 2 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over South Rockwood, MichiganReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest South Rockwood, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/5.6 mi away/591 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
M-22MC139
Beside a road/8.6 mi away/610 ft/23 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW2931CW2931
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.6 mi away/603 ft/16 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Lower River Rouge At Dearborn04168400
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.9 mi away/580 ft/7 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
South Rockwood 0.2 NNWMI-MR-28
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/589 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WyandotteWYTM4
At a cooperative observer's station/10.6 mi away/581 ft/6 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.6 mi from South Rockwood, Michigan. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 8:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.2 F with a dew point of 30.2 F, 50 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,100 ft up.
From the southwest (230 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Detroit/Grosse I, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Wyandotte (WYTM4), 10.6 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. 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.