Ashland, MI Weather Forecast
Newaygo County, Michigan
Seven-day outlook
39–72°F across the weekThe week runs between 40° and 72°, with Tuesday the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Friday is the coolest day in it. Wednesday is the wettest day, peaking near 87%.
Forecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.
The written summaries on this page are generated from the forecast data above, not by a meteorologist. Each sentence is a reading of the same numbers you can see, and no forecaster has reviewed them.
About the Ashland forecast
Ashland sits at 43.3372°N, 85.8567°W in Newaygo County, Michigan. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.
- County
- Newaygo County
- Coordinates
- 43.3372°N, 85.8567°W
- Population
- 2,809 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 34.389 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Ashland, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.
How well can the network see Ashland?
The nearest Doppler radar is KGRR (Grand Rapids, MI), 34 miles to the SSE. A WSR-88D's lowest routine scan sits half a degree above horizontal, and the earth curves away beneath it, so by the time that beam reaches Ashland its center is about 2,200 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Ashland to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form. Ashland is closer to its radar than 64% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KFFX · Fremont Muni on the ASOS/AWOS network, 10.0 miles away. Near enough to be representative on most days, though a summer thunderstorm can soak one and miss the other entirely.
Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the Michigan observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near Ashland
- Garfield, MI6 mi
- Newaygo, MI6 mi
- Sheridan, MI9 mi
- Tyrone, MI9 mi
- Brooks, MI9 mi
- Fremont, MI10 mi
- Ensley, MI11 mi
- Cedar Creek, MI13 mi
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