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Sandusky, MI Weather Forecast

Sanilac County, Michigan

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Conditions now · Thu, 9:00 AM EDT
56°FDewpoint 49°FMostly sunny

Measured at FW1036 · CWOP · 8.7 mi away · 17 minutes ago

Sandusky, MI at Thu, 9:00 AM EDT: 56°F and mostly sunny, measured at FW1036 8.7 mi away, 17 minutes ago. Rest of today: high 69°F, low 50°F, 31% chance of rain. No active National Weather Service alerts for this location.

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What is happeningWritten from the numbers on this page

Dry for the moment, with rain moving in this afternoon

It is 56° with a dew point of 48°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is mostly sunny.

The wind turns to the west around 3 PM. The first rain arrives between 4 PM and 5 PM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 4 PM, and it closes quickly after that.

Hour by hour
9 AMMostly sunny58°F0%
10 AMPartly cloudy62°F3%
11 AMPartly cloudy65°F4%
12 PMMostly cloudy67°F4%
1 PMMostly cloudy68°F5%
2 PMMostly cloudy69°F15%
3 PMMostly cloudy69°F20%
4 PMScattered rain68°F31%
5 PMMostly cloudy67°F14%
6 PMPartly cloudy65°F4%
7 PMPartly cloudy61°F0%
8 PMMostly sunny58°F0%

Next 36 hours

One wet spell, dry either side of it

There is one wet stretch in the window, near 4 PM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.03 in.

It tapers off after 5 PM. The overnight low settles near 42°. Tomorrow reaches 56°, 13° cooler than today. The humidity goes with it: tomorrow is the more comfortable half of this window, and the safer one for anything outdoors.

Seven-day outlook

35–69°F across the week
TodayOct 29Scattered rain · 31% chance of rain50°F / 69°F
FriOct 30Mostly sunny · 1% chance of rain37°F / 56°F
SatOct 31Partly cloudy · 1% chance of rain36°F / 58°F
SunNov 1Mostly cloudy · 6% chance of rain45°F / 62°F
MonNov 2Mostly cloudy · 8% chance of rain47°F / 64°F
TueNov 3Scattered rain · 37% chance of rain51°F / 64°F
WedNov 4Scattered rain · 39% chance of rain51°F / 63°F
ThuNov 5Scattered rain · 45% chance of rain49°F / 59°F
FriNov 6Scattered rain · 30% chance of rain42°F / 54°F
SatNov 7Mostly cloudy · 10% chance of rain38°F / 53°F
SunNov 8Partly cloudy · 5% chance of rain35°F / 53°F

The week runs between 36° and 69°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Wednesday is the wettest day, peaking near 39%. 4 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 Sandusky forecast

Sandusky sits at 43.4202°N, 82.8330°W in Sanilac 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
Sanilac County
Coordinates
43.4202°N, 82.8330°W
Population
2,685 · 2023 estimate
Land area
2.147 sq mi

Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Sandusky, 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 Sandusky?

The nearest Doppler radar is KDTX (Detroit, MI), 59 miles to the SSW. 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 Sandusky its center is about 4,500 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 KBAX · Bad Axe/Huron Cnty on the ASOS/AWOS network, 26 miles away. Far enough that "current conditions" for Sandusky 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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