Lake, Michigan Weather
Lake, Michigan — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Lake, Clare County.
Full aviation weather for Lake is published on the Ojibwa Airpark (KD11) page, 15 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Lake have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Lake: Evart Municipal Airport (K9C8) 22 km · Mecosta Morton Airport (K27C) 32 km · Canadian Lakes Airport (K0C5) 38 km · Roben Hood Airport (KRQB) 42 km · Lakeview-Airport-Griffith Field (K13C) 49 km
Conditions reported at KD11 describe the airfield itself. Weather 15 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Lake specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Lake.
About Lake, Michigan
Lake breathes the crisp air of Michigan's heartland, a place where the land rolls gently, not with the dramatic sweep of mountains, but with the subtle, forgiving curves of glacial artistry. It lies 41.2 miles west-north-west of Midland, MI (from Midland, MI: bearing 294°T), and is situated 7.0 miles west of Farwell. Pine and oak trees, their needles and leaves a shifting mosaic of emerald and russet, stand sentinel over fields that stretch towards a sky often painted with the bruised purples and soft oranges of approaching twilight. The soil here, a rich, dark loam, seems to hold the sun’s warmth long after it dips below the horizon, a lingering embrace that settles over the scattered homes and the quiet roads. The very air seems to carry a certain stillness, broken only by the rustle of leaves or the distant, mournful cry of a hawk circling overhead, a sound that speaks of wide-open spaces and the enduring quietude of the countryside. This particular stretch of Clare County, where Lake finds its home, carries the echoes of a simpler, more agrarian past, its economy once deeply rooted in the fertile earth and the abundant forests that cloaked the region. While the logging days have long since faded into memory, a spirit of self-reliance and a connection to the land persists, evident in the patchwork of farms and the small, independent businesses that serve the local populace. The nearby waterways, cool and clear, offer a refreshing counterpoint to the summer heat and a quiet invitation for recreation, a gentle reminder of the natural bounty that has shaped this community. Life in Lake unfolds at its own deliberate pace, a steady rhythm that values neighborly connection and the enduring beauty of the Michigan landscape, a place where the past is not forgotten but woven into the present with a quiet, unassuming grace.
Live animated radar for Lake and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Lake, Clare County, Michigan |
| Coordinates | 43.851968°N, 85.005307°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 48632, 49651 |
| Area Code | 586, 989 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Lake, Michigan Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lake, Michigan, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Lake includes coordinates 43.851968°N, 85.005307°W, situated in Clare County. ZIP code 48632, 49651. Telephone area code: 586, 989. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/Detroit).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
