Inkster, MI Weather Forecast
Wayne County, Michigan
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Inkster, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in this afternoon
It is 46°, but the wind is taking it down to 42° on exposed skin. The sky is overcast.
Pressure is easing down, 0.03 inHg over the last hour. The first rain arrives between noon and 1 PM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about noon, and it closes quickly after that.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
A long wet stretch ahead
The wet part of the window runs from about noon to 10 AM, 7 hours of it, with the highest chance near 1 PM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.10 in.
It tapers off after 10 AM. The overnight low settles near 40°. Tomorrow tops out near 47°.
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
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
30–56°F across the weekThe week runs between 30° and 48°, with Tuesday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Friday is the wettest day, peaking near 92%. 5 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Inkster, MI at a glance
Inkster is home to about 25,056 people in Wayne County, across 6.3 square miles. It ranks 74th by population of 584 places in Michigan with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Garden City, 2 miles away.
- County
- Wayne County
- Population
- 25,056 2023 est.
- Land area
- 6.3 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 4,007
- Forecast point
- 42.2939°N, 83.3203°W
How well can the network see Inkster?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDTX (Detroit, MI), to the NNW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,800 ft above Inkster. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Inkster show up clearly. Inkster is closer to its radar than 72% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KDTW (Detroit/Metro Wayne Cnty). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Inkster
- Garden City, MI2 mi
- Dearborn Heights, MI3 mi
- Westland, MI4 mi
- Wayne, MI4 mi
- Romulus, MI5 mi
- Taylor, MI5 mi
- Dearborn, MI6 mi
- Allen Park, MI6 mi
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