Citizen station CW5542CW5542
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/1,010 ft/41 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Vandercook Lake until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Vandercook Lake is 51° and overcast at 6 PM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:43 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 PM in Vandercook Lake, Michigan.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, Jackson (MI), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.14 in in the last 24 hours, 0.47 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Vandercook Lake, MichiganReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Vandercook Lake, 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
Citizen station CW5542CW5542
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/1,010 ft/41 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/5.6 mi away/1,001 ft/32 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Adrian [CCOOP]ARNM4
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.3 mi away/738 ft/231 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MI-05 MarshallMC100
Beside a road/31.8 mi away/938 ft/31 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Jackson 3.3 SMI-JC-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/970 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TiptonTIPM4
At a cooperative observer's station/18.7 mi away/1,014 ft/45 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.6 mi from Vandercook Lake, Michigan. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:56 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 1,900 ft, broken at 4,600 ft, overcast at 7,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.0 F with a dew point of 45.0 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 1,900 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Jackson/Reynolds, 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.