Hancock, MI Weather Forecast
Houghton County, Michigan
Seven-day outlook
34–60°F across the weekThe week runs between 34° and 60°, with Monday the warmest day of it. The second half leans warming, and today is the coolest day in it. Tuesday is the wettest day, peaking near 56%. 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 Hancock forecast
Hancock sits at 47.1367°N, 88.5978°W in Houghton 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
- Houghton County
- Coordinates
- 47.1367°N, 88.5978°W
- Population
- 4,507 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 2.779 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Hancock, 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 Hancock?
The nearest Doppler radar is KMQT (Marquette, MI), 65 miles to the SE. 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 Hancock its center is about 5,100 ft above ground. That is far enough out that the beam has climbed above the lowest few thousand feet. Storm structure aloft is visible; a shallow circulation near the ground may not be, and a warning here can arrive before anything looks dramatic on the radar picture.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KCMX · Houghton Cnty Mem on the ASOS/AWOS network, 5.8 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 Hancock
- Houghton, MI2 mi
- Adams, MI7 mi
- Portage, MI12 mi
- Ishpeming, MI63 mi
- Negaunee, MI65 mi
- Marquette, MI70 mi
- Iron River, MI72 mi
- Chocolay, MI79 mi
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