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At an airfield/10.2 mi away/859 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rifle River State Recreation Area, Michigan
State Recreation Area in Ogemaw County, Michigan* WHAT...Temperatures between 30 and 36 degrees will result in frost formation. * WHERE...A portion of Northern Lower Michigan. * WHEN...Until 8 AM EDT this morning. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Temperatures will continue to fall tonight, bottoming out between 12 and 5 AM tonight. Increasing clouds and southwesterly winds will result in temperatures quickly rising between 6 and 8 AM Tuesday. The coldest temperatures are expected across inland portions of northeast lower into north central lower Michigan, especially the Au Sable River Valley.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
34°
66°/33°
Clear·
Feels like 34°·Calm 0 mph NW
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Rifle River State Recreation Area until 8 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Rifle River State Recreation Area is 34° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 51): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Sunday, near 76°, and the coolest Thursday, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Friday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:08 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:13 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 29 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
51Air quality
86%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
34feels34
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
6633
18%
Wed
Oct 7
7252
17%
Thu
Oct 8
6343
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 9
6536
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 10
7039
mostly clear day
Sun
Oct 11
7649
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 12
6949
22%
34°
66°33°
72°52°
63°43°
65°36°
70°39°
76°49°
69°49°
As of 3:00 AM in Rifle River State Recreation Area, Michigan.
Air quality
The air at Rifle River State Recreation Area
Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Northcentral-Northeast Lower (MI), 31 miles off.
51Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)51Moderate-
- Ozone6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 9, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 5
- GoodTodayOct 6
- GoodWedOct 7
- GoodThuOct 8
- GoodFriOct 9
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Rifle River State Recreation Area
None in the last 24 hours; 0.10 in over the last 3 days, to Tue 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.10in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Rifle River State Recreation Area, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Wed 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Wed 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 6.98 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 862 ft
- County
- Ogemaw County
- State
- Michigan
- Latitude
- 44.3633° N
- Longitude
- 84.0555° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Rifle River State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
MI-02 Rose CityMC083
Beside a road/10.9 mi away/1,342 ft/480 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alger RAWSAGRM4
A remote fire weather station/16.5 mi away/771 ft/91 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW9703CW9703
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.0 mi away/586 ft/276 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
LuptonLUPM4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.2 mi away/919 ft/57 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Rose City 0.5 EMI-OG-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/936 ft/74 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Lupton (LUPM4), 4.2 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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Near Rifle River State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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