Dowagiac, MI Weather Forecast
Cass County, Michigan
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We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
36–74°F across the weekThe week runs between 36° and 74°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Saturday is the coolest day in it. Wednesday is the wettest day, peaking near 59%. 5 of the 7 days stay dry.
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 Dowagiac forecast
Dowagiac sits at 41.9834°N, 86.1128°W in Cass 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
- Cass County
- Coordinates
- 41.9834°N, 86.1128°W
- Population
- 5,673 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 4.453 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Dowagiac, 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 Dowagiac?
The nearest Doppler radar is KIWX (Fort Wayne, IN), 48 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 Dowagiac its center is about 3,400 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Dowagiac to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KBEH · Benton Harbor/SW Michigan Rgnl on the ASOS/AWOS network, 18 miles away. Far enough that "current conditions" for Dowagiac is an educated reading of somewhere else, worth knowing before you plan around a single temperature.
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.
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