43.2170, -83.7210

1. Mon4 AM50°3 mph
2. 5 AM49°3 mph
3. 6 AM49°3 mph
4. 7 AM49°3 mph
5. 8 AM49°3 mph
6. 9 AM52°3 mph
7. 10 AM58°5 mph
8. 11 AM63°6 mph
9. 12 PM66°7 mph
10. 1 PM70°7 mph
11. 2 PM72°8 mph
12. 3 PM72°8 mph
13. 4 PM73°8 mph
14. 5 PM72°8 mph
15. 6 PM71°6 mph
16. 7 PM68°3 mph
17. 8 PM62°3 mph
18. 9 PM59°2 mph
19. 10 PM57°2 mph
20. 11 PM55°1 mph
21. Tue12 AM53°1 mph
22. 1 AM52°0 mph
23. 2 AM51°0 mph
24. 3 AM50°0 mph
25. 4 AM49°0 mph
26. 5 AM48°0 mph
27. 6 AM48°0 mph
28. 7 AM47°0 mph
29. 8 AM47°0 mph
30. 9 AM51°1 mph
31. 10 AM59°1 mph
32. 11 AM64°2 mph
33. 12 PM68°3 mph
34. 1 PM72°3 mph
35. 2 PM74°5 mph
36. 3 PM75°6 mph
37. 4 PM76°6 mph
38. 5 PM75°6 mph
39. 6 PM74°5 mph
40. 7 PM71°3 mph
41. 8 PM66°3 mph
42. 9 PM63°3 mph
43. 10 PM61°3 mph
44. 11 PM60°5 mph
45. Wed12 AM59°5 mph
46. 1 AM58°5 mph
47. 2 AM57°5 mph
48. 3 AM57°5 mph

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1. TodaySep 2874°47°Areas Of Fog then Sunny0%wind 8 mph · gusts 16 mph
2. TueSep 2976°56°Widespread Fog then Sunny0%wind 6 mph · gusts 13 mph
3. WedSep 3077°64°Partly Sunny19%wind 12 mph · gusts 22 mph
4. ThuOct 176°50°Rain Showers Likely68%0.03 inwind 14 mph · gusts 28 mph
5. FriOct 265°42°Chance Rain Showers48%wind 8 mph · gusts 18 mph
6. SatOct 365°44°Slight Chance Rain Showers19%wind 7 mph · gusts 15 mph
7. SunOct 466°44°Mostly Sunny14%wind 9 mph · gusts 21 mph
8. MonOct 563°41°13%wind 9 mph · gusts 20 mph
9. TueOct 665°45°National Blend11%0.01 inwind 9 mph · gusts 18 mph
10. WedOct 766°44°National Blend15%0.11 inwind 10 mph · gusts 21 mph
11. ThuOct 8~63°55°Model mean0.18 in
12. FriOct 9~60°42°Model mean0.30 in
13. SatOct 10~59°44°Model mean0.05 in
14. SunOct 11~58°46°Model mean
15. MonOct 12~54°36°Model mean
16. TueOct 13~48°31°Model mean

• Feels like49°
• WindNNW 3 mphgusts 7 mph
• Radar over this pointno reading
• Humidity100%
• Dew point50°
• Pressure—
• UV index—
• Air quality—
• Visibility—
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset · not yet up
• Moonrise8:00 PMMoonset 9:48 AM
• Moon phaseWaning gibbous95% lit

NOAA’s weighted blend of every model it runs, to eleven days, with the chances the grid above does not carry. Where the local office’s grid reaches, its figure sits beneath the blend’s; where it does not, the blend stands alone.

1. TodaySep 2874°47°NWS grid 74° / 47°rain 0%wind 8 mph · gusts 16 mph
2. TueSep 2976°56°NWS grid 76° / 56°rain 0%wind 6 mph · gusts 13 mph
3. WedSep 3077°64°NWS grid 77° / 64°rain 35%wind 12 mph · gusts 22 mph
4. ThuOct 176°50°NWS grid 76° / 50°rain 69%thunder 15%0.46 inwind 14 mph · gusts 28 mph
5. FriOct 266°43°NWS grid 65° / 42°rain 29%0.09 inwind 8 mph · gusts 17 mph
6. SatOct 366°45°NWS grid 65° / 44°rain 20%0.03 inwind 7 mph · gusts 15 mph
7. SunOct 467°44°NWS grid 66° / 44°rain 14%wind 9 mph · gusts 21 mph
8. MonOct 563°41°NWS grid 63° / 41°rain 10%wind 9 mph · gusts 18 mph
9. TueOct 665°45°Beyond the NWS gridrain 11%0.01 inwind 9 mph · gusts 18 mph
10. WedOct 766°44°Beyond the NWS gridrain 15%0.11 inwind 10 mph · gusts 21 mph
11. ThuOct 863°—Beyond the NWS gridrain 16%0.01 inwind 12 mph · gusts 23 mph

Each line is one model’s own forecast at its own grid cell: three kilometers for HRRR, a quarter of a degree for the global models, which can sit a few hundred meters above or below the town. Where they agree the forecast is settled; where they part is where it is not.

NWS gridBlendHRRRGFSGEFS ± spreadECMWFECMWF AI

A ~ marks a high or low read from six-hourly steps, which miss the true extreme by a degree or two.

ECMWF ensemble meteogram

10 daysTemperature plume

No forecast has skill day by day past about two weeks, and this page does not print one. Where the models stop, the calendar takes over: the 1991 to 2020 normal for each date, the record high and low ever set on it, and where the Climate Prediction Center leans warm, cool, wet or dry over the coming weeks, the month and the season. A site that shows a high for a date three months out is showing you this normal with a wobble.

The forecast reaches Tue Oct 13, from the NWS grid, then the National Blend, then the mean of the global models. Beyond it the lines are the calendar.

Forecast high and lowNormal high and lowRecord high and lowCPC leans warmer than normalCPC leans cooler than normalCPC near normal or equal chances

None of these is a measurement. Each is a rating of the forecast ahead, and of what is happening at the point right now, against what the activity or the ailment is known to mind, and each names the figure that decided it. An ailment or a pest is rated as a risk, low to extreme; an activity, a chore or a journey as a condition, poor to ideal.

Each rating says which span it is for: the rest of today’s daylight, tonight, or the next 24 hours.

Tonight has no dark, clear hour without a bright moon in this forecast. Rated fair.

Dark is the sun 18 degrees below the horizon; where it never gets that low, 12 degrees, marked nautical. Clear is sky cover of 20% or less. A bright moon is one above the horizon with a quarter or more of its disc lit. Transparency in the table is estimated from surface humidity (70% and 85% mark fair and poor) and visibility, since the forecast carries no haze or high cloud moisture. Seeing and transparency by hour, where shown, are Environment and Climate Change Canada’s astronomy forecast (regional model; seeing from cloud, wind shear, turbulence near the ground and the surface temperature trend; transparency from the moisture through the whole air column), under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Dew is the air within 2 °C of its dew point. Excellent is four or more clear moonless hours with good transparency; good is three; fair is one, or two clear hours.

Golden hour is the sun between 6 degrees above the horizon and 4 degrees below it; blue hour is the sun between 4 and 6 degrees below. These are the definitions timeanddate.com and PhotoPills use. Directions are degrees clockwise from true north, where the sun’s upper edge and the moon’s center cross a flat horizon; hills and buildings change both. None means the sun does not reach that height on the day; all day means it stays inside the band.

This hour: fly with caution (night: lighting and night training required (107.29)). Next good stretch: Mon 8 AM to 4 PM, 8 hours.

Today: civil twilight for Part 107 6:59 AM to sunrise 7:29 AM, and sunset 7:21 PM to 7:51 PM. Anti-collision lighting is required in those minutes and at night.

Good Caution No-fly

Flight restrictions nearby

Reading the FAA’s temporary flight restrictions.

Flight restrictions on the map. TFRs are not the whole picture: controlled airspace around airports needs LAANC authorization. Check the FAA’s B4UFLY.

Wind at 400 ft is estimated from the 10 m forecast by the power law, with exponents for each Pasquill stability class (Irwin 1979, rural, as in EPA dispersion models; the class from wind, sun height and cloud, after Turner 1970); gusts keep the ground gust’s margin. Caution from three quarters of your limit; the default 24 mph is the wind resistance printed for common sub-250 g drones. 14 CFR 107.51: “The minimum flight visibility, as observed from the location of the control station must be no less than 3 statute miles” and at least “500 feet below the cloud”. 14 CFR 107.29: “No person may operate a small unmanned aircraft system during periods of civil twilight unless the small unmanned aircraft has lighted anti-collision lighting visible for at least 3 statute miles”; civil twilight is the 30 minutes before sunrise and after sunset, in Alaska the Air Almanac’s. Kp: SWPC’s scales say satellite navigation problems may occur at G3 (Kp 7) and navigation is “degraded for hours” at G4 (Kp 8); Kp 5 is the typical app warning. Typical limits, not rules: rain chance 30% caution and 60% no-fly, thunder 10% and 20%, below 0 °C caution and −10 °C no-fly, over 40 °C caution. Your drone’s manual and the airspace come first.

Hours fit for spraying, and the days dry enough for fieldwork and hay, read from this forecast’s wind, gusts, humidity, temperature and rain.

Spraying windows

• Mon 11 AM to 2 PM 3 hours, every hour within the rules
• Mon 6 PM to 9 PM 3 hours, every hour within the rules
• Tue 12 PM to Wed 12 AM 12 hours, every hour within the rules
• Fri 10 AM to 12 PM 2 hours, every hour within the rules
• Fri 7 PM to 11 PM 4 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sat 10 AM to 10 PM 12 hours, every hour within the rules

Good Marginal No

Field days

Spraying: sustained wind 3 to 10 mph, the range US extension services and most labels give; gusts no more than 15 mph (this page’s limit); delta T (air minus wet-bulb temperature) 2 to 8 °C preferred and 8 to 10 °C marginal, from GRDC guidance, with the wet bulb by Stull’s formula; no hour at a 30% chance of rain or 0.25 mm forecast during the rain-free time. Follow the product label, which overrides all of this. Field days: dry is no daytime hour at a 30% chance and under 1 mm all day, wet is 6 mm (0.25 in) or more; soil moisture is not in the forecast, so ground still wet from earlier rain is not accounted for. Hay drying marks a dry day with humidity down to 50% and a breeze of 5 mph or more.

The best-rated day this week is Monday, rated good.

Periods in bold fall within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The weather’s side is the fishing index

Major periods are two hours centered on the moon’s passage overhead and underfoot; minor periods are one hour centered on moonrise and moonset: the conventional durations of John Alden Knight’s solunar tables (1936). The rating is this site’s: one point to start, two more within a day and a half of a new or full moon (one more within three and a half days), and one more when a period falls within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The theory has mixed support in fisheries research; the times are exact astronomy.

1. Overnight49° · NNW 3 mph

   Areas of fog. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 49. North northwest wind around 3 mph.

2. Monday74° · NNW 3–8 mph

   Areas of fog before 10am. Sunny. High near 74, with temperatures falling to around 72 in the afternoon. North northwest wind 3 to 8 mph.

3. Monday Night47° · NE 0–6 mph

   Widespread fog after midnight. Mostly clear, with a low around 47. Northeast wind 0 to 6 mph.

4. Tuesday76° · SSW 0–6 mph

   Widespread fog before 10am. Sunny, with a high near 76. South southwest wind 0 to 6 mph.

5. Tuesday Night56° · S 6 mph

   Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. South wind around 6 mph.

6. Wednesday77° · 5% · S 6–12 mph

   Partly sunny, with a high near 77.

7. Wednesday Night64° · 35% · SSW 9–13 mph

   A chance of rain showers after 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64.

8. Thursday76° · 68% · SW 14 mph

   Rain showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 76.

9. Thursday Night50° · 68% · WNW 5–12 mph

   Rain showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 50.

10. Friday65° · 26% · NW 5–8 mph

    A chance of rain showers before 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 65.

11. Friday Night42° · 9% · NNW 2–6 mph

    Partly cloudy, with a low around 42.

12. Saturday65° · 19% · NNE 2–7 mph

    A slight chance of rain showers after 8am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 65.

13. Saturday Night44° · 15% · E 3–7 mph

    A slight chance of rain showers before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 44.

14. Sunday66° · 14% · SSE 5–9 mph

    Mostly sunny, with a high near 66.

Written by the forecaster on duty for their own colleagues and for anyone who wants to know why the forecast says what it says. It is not edited for the public, so it uses the office’s shorthand; it is also the most honest thing any weather service publishes.

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Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac MI
358 AM EDT Mon Sep 28 2026

MIZ047>049-053>055-060>063-068>070-075-076-082-083-290800-
Midland-Bay-Huron-Saginaw-Tuscola-Sanilac-Shiawassee-Genesee-Lapeer-
St. Clair-Livingston-Oakland-Macomb-Washtenaw-Wayne-Lenawee-Monroe-
358 AM EDT Mon Sep 28 2026

This hazardous weather outlook is for southeast Michigan.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will not be needed today and tonight.

$$

LCZ460-LEZ444-LHZ361>363-421-422-441>443-462>464-290800-
Lake St Clair-
Michigan Waters of Lake Erie from Detroit River to North Cape MI-
Lake Huron from 5NM east of Mackinac Bridge to Presque Isle Lt
beyond 5 NM off shore-
Lake Huron from Presque Isle Light to Sturgeon Point MI beyond 5NM
off shore-
Lake Huron from Sturgeon Point to Alabaster MI beyond 5NM off shore-
Outer Saginaw Bay SW of Alabaster to Port Austin MI to Inner Saginaw
Bay-Inner Saginaw Bay SW of Point Au Gres to Bay Port MI-
Port Austin to Harbor Beach MI-Harbor Beach to Port Sanilac MI-
Port Sanilac to Port Huron MI-
Lake Huron from Port Austin to Harbor Beach beyond 5NM Off Shore-
Lake Huron from Harbor Beach to Port Sanilac beyond 5NM Off Shore-
Lake Huron from Port Sanilac to Port Huron beyond 5NM Off Shore-
358 AM EDT Mon Sep 28 2026

This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of Lake Erie, Lake
Huron and Lake St Clair.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will not be needed today and tonight.

$$

You can obtain your latest National Weather Service forecasts online
at www.weather.gov/detroit.

MV

The national centers each publish a judgment the local grid does not carry. Read here at this exact coordinate.

The last spring freeze (32°F) usually comes around May 3 and the first fall freeze around October 13: a growing season of about 162 days.

One fall in ten brings a freeze by September 30; one spring in ten still has one after May 20.

Climate of 43.22, -83.72: normals, records and every month

The forecast office edits about sixty fields for every cell of its grid. The common ones are above; these are the rest, as the daily extreme, for anyone who needs the mixing height, the fire danger or the swell.

Each forecast day against the same calendar date at the nearest long-record station: the 1991 to 2020 normal, and the record high and low with the year they were set.