Sparta, MI Weather Forecast
Kent County, Michigan
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Sparta, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in this afternoon
It is 47° with a dew point of 43°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is overcast. The air is close to calm.
Pressure is easing down, 0.03 inHg over the last hour. The wind turns to the northwest around noon. The first rain arrives between 1 PM and 2 PM, with the best chance of it around 3 PM.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Wet through the window, then cooler and clearing
The wet part of the window runs from about 1 PM to 5 PM, 14 hours of it, with the highest chance near 3 PM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.13 in.
It tapers off after 5 PM. The overnight low settles near 39°. Tomorrow reaches 42°, 6° cooler than today. The humidity goes with it: tomorrow is the more comfortable half of this window, and the safer one for anything outdoors.
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
29–56°F across the weekThe week runs between 29° and 48°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Today is the wettest day, peaking near 57%. 5 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Sparta, MI at a glance
Sparta is home to about 4,271 people in Kent County, across 2.6 square miles. It ranks 361st by population of 584 places in Michigan with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Algoma, 5 miles away.
- County
- Kent County
- Population
- 4,271 2023 est.
- Land area
- 2.6 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,674
- Forecast point
- 43.1567°N, 85.7110°W
How well can the network see Sparta?
The nearest Doppler radar is KGRR (Grand Rapids, MI), to the SSE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,100 ft above Sparta. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Sparta show up clearly. Sparta is closer to its radar than 85% of US cities.
The closest weather station is K8D4 (Sparta/Miller Arpt). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Sparta
- Algoma, MI5 mi
- Alpine, MI5 mi
- Tyrone, MI7 mi
- Plainfield, MI8 mi
- Rockford, MI8 mi
- Solon, MI8 mi
- Wright, MI9 mi
- Cedar Springs, MI9 mi
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