Ishpeming, MI Weather Forecast
Marquette County, Michigan
Seven-day outlook
30–60°F across the weekThe week runs between 30° 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 58%. 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 Ishpeming forecast
Ishpeming sits at 46.4703°N, 87.6751°W in Marquette 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
- Marquette County
- Coordinates
- 46.4703°N, 87.6751°W
- Population
- 6,183 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 8.748 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Ishpeming, 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 Ishpeming?
The nearest Doppler radar is KMQT (Marquette, MI), 7.3 miles to the NE. 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 Ishpeming its center is about 370 ft above ground. That is about as close as radar coverage gets in the United States: the lowest scan is still near the ground when it reaches Ishpeming, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Ishpeming is closer to its radar than 97% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KSAW · Marquette/Sawyer Intl on the ASOS/AWOS network, 16 miles away. Far enough that "current conditions" for Ishpeming 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.
Forecasts near Ishpeming
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- Marquette, MI14 mi
- Forsyth, MI19 mi
- Chocolay, MI20 mi
- Breitung, MI44 mi
- Norway, MI48 mi
- Iron Mountain, MI48 mi
- Kingsford, MI50 mi
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