Erhard, Minnesota Weather
Erhard, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Erhard, Otter Tail County.
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About Erhard, Minnesota
Erhard sits in Otter Tail County, a place where the land itself seems to hold its breath under vast, open skies. It lies 41.5 miles south-east of Moorhead, MN (from Moorhead, MN: bearing 130°T), and is situated 5.9 miles south of Pelican Rapids. The terrain here is a gentle yielding, a landscape sculpted by ancient glaciers into broad, shallow basins that collect the abundant rainfall, feeding a network of lakes and wetlands. Fields of corn and soybeans stretch toward the horizon, their emerald and gold hues shifting with the sunlight, interrupted only by the occasional stand of aspens and oaks, their leaves a rustling murmur against the wind. In the quiet of the evening, the air grows crisp, carrying the faint scent of damp earth and ripening grain, and the western sky bleeds into a magnificent canvas of rose and violet, a silent benediction upon the land. The story of Erhard is one of quiet perseverance, tied intrinsically to the fertile soil and the water that sustains it. Its economy, like that of many communities in this region, has long been rooted in agriculture, with generations of families cultivating the rich loam. You can still see the echo of this history in the sturdy, practical architecture of the older farmsteads and the enduring presence of grain elevators, silent sentinels against the sky. While the larger world rushes on, Erhard maintains its own deliberate cadence, a place where the cycles of planting and harvest dictate the rhythm of life, and where the shared understanding among its residents is as deep and nourishing as the earth beneath their feet.
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| Location | Erhard, Otter Tail County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 46.485515°N, 96.098668°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 56534 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Erhard, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Erhard, Minnesota, 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 Erhard includes coordinates 46.485515°N, 96.098668°W, situated in Otter Tail County. ZIP code 56534. 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. 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.
