Weather Links
With a bias towards the Keweenaw Peninsula in the U.P.
Revised 6/28/23When I get my own website - this is a very limiting Google site (free) - the formatting of this page will become much cleaner. This will happen.
General Weather
Air Quality & Allergy Forecasts for Traverse City:
Michigan Weather Text Data -- Lotsa stuff!
Other:
Graphical Conditions/Forecasts for Mich. – Includes wind direction & speed
Climate Prediction Center — 6-10 & 8.14 day outlooks, plus 1-3 month outlooks
Snowfall Totals:
YTD Snowfall Totals (select cities)
Upper Michigan:
Keweenaw County snowfall data — Display comparisons with other years/months back to 2006/2007.
Keweenaw Snowfall Thermometer — Not updated daily, so check back now & then.
Keweenaw & Houghton counties snowfall — Separate charts - don't know their sources...
Snow Depth (not 'totals')
Radar
Wind & Water
Aviation Forecast, Traverse City, MI — With the exception of forecast.weather.gov below, this is more realistic than the others that tend to be high.
Earth Wind Map — Very cool; zoom out & rotate to your favorite spot.
forecast.weather.gov — Hourly forecast graph
Boaters' View, Lake Superior -- Requires selecting variables
MagicSeaWeed — Slide your cursor across the stripe pattern. Beaufort scale at right >>
Michigan Graphical Conditions/Forecasts — Includes wind direction & speed
Mobile Access — Text only; no graphics.
Lake Michigan:
Station 45002 — Halfway between North Manitou & Washington Islands
Station BSBM4 — Big Sable Point, MI
Station 45077 — North of Chicago, IL
Station LDTM4 — 9087023 — Ludington, MI
Station GTLM4 — Grand Traverse Light, MI
Station 45020 — Grand Traverse Bay Observing System Station 1.
Station 45021 — Grand Traverse Bay Observing System Station 2 -- Hasn't been online for a while...
Station 45002 — Little Traverse Bay, Petoskey
West Grand Traverse Bay buoys -- Seasonal
Lake Superior:
Station 45023 — North Entry of Portage Canal, west side of Keweenaw
Station PCLM4 — West side of Keweenaw, slightly NW of Station 45023
Station KP59 — Copper Harbor
Station STDM4 — Stannard Rock lighthouse
Station GTRM4 — Superior Grand Traverse Bay, east side of Keweenaw
Station 45025 — South Entry of Portage Canal, east side of Keweenaw
Station 45006 — W. Superior, 48NM North of Ironwood, MI
Station 45001 — Mid-Superior, 60NM N-NE of Hancock
Station GTRM4 — Grand Traverse Bay (E. side of Keweenaw
Water Levels
Water Temperatures:
Weather Underground, Marine Forecast — Click an area on the map for details
Wind Maps:
WindFinder -- Use the "Birds Eye" view for map.
Upper Peninsula
Lower Peninsula
Other...
Climate Reanalyzer — Univ. of Maine
Interactive viewer — Download PDF's at the right of page.
MarineTraffic.com — Their app's worth it!
Meteor Showers
Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis):
Pollen Count — Traverse City, MI
SpaceWeather.com — Aurora info.: K-Index (Kp) > 5 (7=best); Interplanetary Magnectic Field (Bz) = aligned south = nT south
UP Power Outage Maps:
Favs
Frankfort (maybe it'll work...)
Great Lakes Nearshore Forecasts:
Water Temps.
Radar -- Change "radar" setting to "forecast."
WindFinder -- Use the "Birds Eye" view for map.
Webcams
Favorites
Grand Haven webcam -- Nice view. They seem to always have wind & waves.
The Main List
Northern Lower Michigan, Lake Michigan:
9&10 News Skycams – Seem to be broken more often than not.
CharlevoixCam – View of the canal from the bridge as it exits into Lake Michigan.
Empire Beach Cam – One of the nicest additions to the webcam list. Kudos! No controls, but they've either timed views to catch sunsets, or somebody internally is enjoying it.
Frankfort — Harbor Lights Resort — Capability's there, but the application is very poor.
Glen Lake (Narnia) — Single images
Grand Haven — Great view. They seem to always have wind - lots of kiters.
Grand Traverse Yacht Club (West Bay) — Limited view, but sometimes helpful.
Leland Harbor — Limited view of Lake MI
Ludington — Snyder Shore Inn. Site's just an empty template now...
Manistee — Decent view.
Muskegon — Good view.
Petoskey Chamber of Commerce — Two different views, both wide angle, with the bay in the distance.
Spyglass Hill, Holland — Relatively closeup view of lighthouse & breakers.
St. Joseph — Nice view.
Torch Lake — Dewitt Marine's marina
Torch Lake — Dockside Restaurant w/ westward view of Torch Lake.
Traverse City – Great Lakes Maritime Academy — Larger view w/o controls — Slow to respond, but my receive a replacement over the winter, hopefully running by spring 2019.
Traverse City Chamber of Commerce — Why? Single images of questionable quality....kinda useless.
Upper Michigan: