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Beside a road/6.9 mi away/591 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
The Woods at Willow Point Beach, Michigan
Beach in Grand Traverse County, Michigan50°
53°/41°
Overcast·
Feels like 44°·Moderate breeze 16 mph N
Now. The Woods at Willow Point Beach is 50° and overcast at 1 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:56 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 10 hours 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
2UV Low
24Air quality
85%Humidity
95%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
50feels44
47%
16mph
Today
Oct 16
5341
90%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5534
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6240
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6443
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6639
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6841
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6744
partly cloudy day
50°
53°41°
55°34°
62°40°
64°43°
66°39°
68°41°
67°44°
As of 1:00 PM in The Woods at Willow Point Beach, Michigan.
Air quality
The air at The Woods at Willow Point Beach
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Northwest Lower (MI), 4 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)2Good-
- Ozone24Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at The Woods at Willow Point Beach
1.00 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.00in
- Last 3 days
- 1.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at The Woods at Willow Point Beach, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 6 miles Fri 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SE 131°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 45002, 55.7 mi away.
Waves at buoy 45002, North Michigan
- Wave height
- 5.9 ft
- Period
- -
- From
- NNE (14°)
- Swell
- 0.3 ft at 10 s from NNW
- Wind waves
- 5.9 ft at 6 s from NNE
- Water
- 60 °F
- Read
- Fri 1:10 PM
- Distance
- 55.7 mi
Wave height is the significant height: the mean of the highest third of the waves. The period is the time between the waves carrying the most energy.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 1:10 PM | 5.9 ft | - | NNE (14°) |
| Fri 12:50 PM | 5.6 ft | 5 s | NNE (15°) |
| Fri 11:50 AM | 5.6 ft | - | N (4°) |
| Fri 10:50 AM | 5.2 ft | 5 s | N (359°) |
| Fri 9:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 4 s | NNE (16°) |
| Fri 8:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | NE (34°) |
| Fri 7:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | NNE (33°) |
| Fri 6:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 5 s | NE (39°) |
| Fri 5:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 5 s | NNE (26°) |
| Fri 4:50 AM | 4.3 ft | 5 s | NNE (15°) |
| Fri 3:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | NNE (16°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | ENE (76°) |
| Fri 1:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 4 s | E (83°) |
| Fri 12:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 4 s | ESE (106°) |
| Thu 11:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 4 s | ESE (110°) |
| Thu 10:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | E (101°) |
| Thu 9:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | ESE (119°) |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | SE (132°) |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | ESE (107°) |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | ESE (109°) |
| Thu 5:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | ESE (110°) |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | ESE (119°) |
| Thu 3:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | SE (124°) |
| Thu 2:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | SE (130°) |
Beach
- County
- Grand Traverse County
- State
- Michigan
- Latitude
- 44.8550° N
- Longitude
- 85.5043° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest The Woods at Willow Point Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Traverse CitTVC
At an airfield/8.7 mi away/623 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW7286GW7286
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.0 mi away/591 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Grand Traverse LightGTLM4
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.7 mi away/568 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Gaylord 9 SSW54854
At a climate reference station/38.5 mi away/1,461 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Williamsburg 6 NWMOM4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.1 mi away/689 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Elk Rapids 0.6 NWMI-AT-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.5 mi away/590 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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