Spencer, MI Weather Forecast
Kent County, Michigan
Seven-day outlook
37–67°F across the weekThe week runs between 37° and 67°, with Tuesday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Tuesday is the wettest day, peaking near 57%. 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 Spencer forecast
Spencer sits at 43.2465°N, 85.3691°W in Kent 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
- Kent County
- Coordinates
- 43.2465°N, 85.3691°W
- Population
- 4,186 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 34.576 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Spencer, 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 Spencer?
The nearest Doppler radar is KGRR (Grand Rapids, MI), 26 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 Spencer its center is about 1,500 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 Spencer, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Spencer is closer to its radar than 76% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is K8D4 · Sparta/Miller Arpt on the ASOS/AWOS network, 18 miles away. Far enough that "current conditions" for Spencer 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 Spencer
- Montcalm, MI5 mi
- Oakfield, MI6 mi
- Nelson, MI6 mi
- Greenville, MI7 mi
- Courtland, MI8 mi
- Eureka, MI8 mi
- Cedar Springs, MI9 mi
- Sidney, MI12 mi
Elsewhere in Michigan
DetroitGrand RapidsWarrenSterling HeightsAnn ArborLansingAll Michigan forecasts →