Michigan generates an extraordinary volume of public data every day — NWS watches for 83 counties, USGS streamgage readings on every major river, Great Lakes water levels, EPA beach advisories, grant solicitations, road conditions, and much more. That information lives across dozens of portals built for specialists, not residents. Michigan Gateway consolidates it into one situational view that updates throughout the day.
What we do
We aggregate the state's most consequential public signals into a single, always-current dashboard. Every panel refreshes automatically — most within minutes of the upstream agency publishing new data. Nothing here is behind a login, a paywall, or an ad-wall you can't dismiss. Bookmark a page and you'll always get the current state.
Coverage today
Programmatic per-county and per-gauge pages mean you can bookmark a single URL — like /wayne-county or /tittabawassee-river-at-midland — and always get the current state without hunting through menus.
Where the data comes from
Every reading on the site cites its source and links back to it. We aggregate; we don't invent.
Who builds it
Michigan Gateway is a project of TRUiC in partnership with The Sun Times News, a Michigan-focused local-news publisher. TRUiC builds public-good information products at scale; The Sun Times News brings deep regional editorial expertise. Together we keep Michigan Gateway free, ad-light, and sign-up-free.
How it differs from other dashboards
Most weather and government-data dashboards are either national in scope — so Michigan-specific signals get buried — or single-source (only NWS, only USGS). Michigan Gateway is purposefully cross-source and Michigan-only. The same page that shows your county's tornado watch also surfaces the nearest stream-gauge reading, current beach advisories on the closest Great Lakes shoreline, and any open grant programs your business or municipality could apply to today.
It's built for situational awareness, not deep-dive research — though every panel links back to its authoritative source for verification.
Questions, corrections, ideas
Reach out via Contact. Data-quality issues are corrected as fast as we can pull a fix and redeploy. Partnership inquiries welcome.