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Sparta/Miller Arpt wind

Sparta/Miller Arpt is a land weather station near Belmont in the Lake Michigan sailing area. The readings come from Aviation weather (METAR), and Telltale keeps every one of them so the history on this page is the station's own record.

Latest observation

The latest reading at Sparta/Miller Arpt is a wind of 4 kn from the S (180°), observed at 2026-11-03 23:35 UTC (Tuesday 3 Nov 18:35 local time, America/Detroit). The air temperature was 23°C.

The last 24 hours

Over the 24 hours to that reading, Sparta/Miller Arpt averaged 9 kn across 21 observations, with a strongest gust of 21 kn and a strongest mean wind of 12 kn. The prevailing direction, weighted by wind speed, was SSW (194°).

About this station

Type
land weather station
Source
Aviation weather (METAR)
Area
Lake Michigan
Position
43.129, -85.678
Exposure
unknown

Telltale has not classified how exposed Sparta/Miller Arpt is, so compare it with nearby stations before relying on its absolute numbers.

Reading these numbers

The mean wind is averaged over the station's reporting period, and a gust is the strongest short burst inside it, so a gust is always at least the mean. Speeds are in knots, directions are where the wind blows from, and times are given in UTC with the station's local time beside them. A station measures its own spot; a forecast model describes a grid cell, so the two can differ by a few knots even when the forecast is good. Sparta/Miller Arpt is one of the stations Telltale compares with the forecast models before it shapes the live wind map; understand the weather models or how coastal wind behaves.

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