Sterling Heights, MI Weather Forecast
Macomb County, Michigan
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Sterling Heights, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
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
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Sterling Heights, MI at a glance
Sterling Heights is home to about 133,306 people in Macomb County, across 36 square miles. It ranks 4th by population of 584 places in Michigan with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Utica, 3 miles away.
- County
- Macomb County
- Population
- 133,306 2023 est.
- Land area
- 36 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 3,658
- Forecast point
- 42.5812°N, 83.0303°W
How well can the network see Sterling Heights?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDTX (Detroit, MI), to the WNW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,400 ft above Sterling Heights. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Sterling Heights show up clearly. Sterling Heights is closer to its radar than 79% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KVLL (Oakland-Troy Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Sterling Heights
- Utica, MI3 mi
- Fraser, MI5 mi
- Clinton, MI6 mi
- Troy, MI6 mi
- Warren, MI6 mi
- Madison Heights, MI6 mi
- Shelby, MI6 mi
- Clawson, MI7 mi
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