Palms, Michigan — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Palms, Sanilac County.
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Palms, Michigan, unfolds across a terrain that is neither dramatic nor flat, but rather a gentle, rolling landscape where fields of corn and soybeans surrender to stands of oak and maple. It lies 47.7 miles north-north-west of Port Huron, MI (from Port Huron, MI: bearing 339°T), and is situated 6.2 miles north-north-west of Deckerville. The earth here is a rich, dark loam, yielding generously to the plow, and the air, especially after a rain, carries the clean, sweet scent of turned soil and distant pine. The sky, vast and often brushed with bruised purples and bruised oranges at dusk, seems to stretch endlessly over this quiet corner of the Thumb. It is a place where the wind whispers through the tall grasses bordering country roads and where the occasional, solitary farmhouse stands as a sentinel against the horizon. The history of Palms is deeply entwined with agriculture, a legacy evident in the enduring farms that dot the countryside, their silos like weathered sentinels against the seasons. This land, long cultivated, was once a more wild frontier, a place where early settlers carved their livelihoods from the dense forests. The local economy, though modest, remains rooted in the bounty of the soil and the quiet hum of small businesses catering to the needs of the farming community. There is a palpable sense of continuity here, a rhythm of life dictated by the planting and harvesting seasons, a steady, unpretentious pulse that defines the character of Palms.
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| Location | Palms, Sanilac County, Michigan |
| Coordinates | 43.613629°N, 82.768268°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 48465 |
| Area Code | 248 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Palms, Michigan, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Palms includes coordinates 43.613629°N, 82.768268°W, situated in Sanilac County. ZIP code 48465. Telephone area code: 248. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/Detroit).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.