Elbow Lake, Minnesota Weather
Elbow Lake, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Elbow Lake, Grant County.
Full aviation weather for Elbow Lake is published on the Fergus Falls Municipal Airport - Einar Mickelson Field (KFFM) page, 35 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. 5 airfields within reach of Elbow 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 Elbow Lake: Chandler Field (KAXN) 47 km · Morris Municipal Airport Charlie Schmidt Field (KMOX) 48 km · Wheaton Municipal Airport (KETH) 50 km · Harry Stern Airport (KBWP) 56 km
Conditions reported at KFFM describe the airfield itself. Weather 35 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Elbow Lake specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Elbow Lake.
About Elbow Lake, Minnesota
Elbow Lake rests in a wide embrace of rolling prairie, where the horizon stretches to meet a sky that often deepens to a bruised, magnificent purple at dusk. It lies 71.5 miles south-south-east of Moorhead, MN (from Moorhead, MN: bearing 148°T), and is situated 14.4 miles north-west of Hoffman. The land here is a soft, fertile loam, sculpted by the slow, patient work of glaciers and wind into gentle swells that catch the sun in shifting patterns of gold and amber. Fields of corn and soybeans, meticulously ordered, form a patchwork quilt across the landscape, interspersed with stands of oak and aspen that whisper secrets on the breeze. The air, especially in the late summer afternoons, carries the sweet, earthy scent of ripening grain and the faint, clean aroma of distant water, a promise of the coolness that Elbow Lake itself offers. The history of Elbow Lake is tied to the westward expansion and the promise of rich farmland, a story etched into the very grain of the soil. Settlers, drawn by the fertile ground and the abundance of water, established a community that has since become a hub for surrounding agricultural endeavors. The local economy still thrives on the bounty of the land, with grain elevators standing sentinel against the vast sky, testament to the ongoing harvest. While not a place of grand monuments, Elbow Lake possesses a quiet dignity, a sense of enduring resilience that speaks of generations who have worked this land, their lives interwoven with the cycles of planting and reaping, their stories whispered on the wind that sweeps across the open prairie.
Live animated radar for Elbow 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.
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| Location | Elbow Lake, Grant County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 45.994127°N, 95.97672°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 56589, 56531 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Elbow Lake, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Elbow Lake, Minnesota, 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 Elbow Lake includes coordinates 45.994127°N, 95.976720°W, situated in Grant County. ZIP code 56589, 56531. Telephone area code: 320. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
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.
