Kent, Minnesota Weather
Kent, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Kent, Wilkin County.
Full aviation weather for Kent is published on the Harry Stern Airport (KBWP) page, 22 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. 6 airfields within reach of Kent 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 Kent: Hamry Field (KK74) 34 km · Fergus Falls Municipal Airport - Einar Mickelson Field (KFFM) 44 km · Moorhead Municipal Airport (KJKJ) 45 km · Pelican Rapids Muni-Lyon's Field (K47Y) 50 km · West Fargo Municipal Airport (KD54) 55 km
Conditions reported at KBWP describe the airfield itself. Weather 22 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Kent specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Kent.
About Kent, Minnesota
Kent, Minnesota, unfolds across a landscape of expansive horizons, where the sky seems to spill over the gently rolling terrain, painting the air with a luminous, almost tangible quality. It lies 30.5 miles south of Moorhead, MN (from Moorhead, MN: bearing 173°T), and is situated 12.4 miles north-north-west of Wahpeton. The land here is a broad, fertile canvas, etched by the patient hand of glacial ages, now given over to the cultivation of crops that stretch in verdant and golden swathes to the farthest visible edge. The very air, when it breathes, carries the clean, dry scent of harvested grain and the faintest whisper of distant, unseen water. The character of Kent is one of quiet endurance, a place where the vastness of the prairie imbues its inhabitants with a sense of spaciousness, allowing thoughts to wander as freely as the clouds across the immense blue. The history of Kent is a story of the land's promise, a narrative woven from the grit of early settlers who coaxed life from this rich earth. The local economy, deeply rooted in agriculture, still echoes the era when wheat and corn were king, though diversification has brought new rhythms to the fields. While no grand monuments mark its past, the subtle contours of the land itself bear witness to generations of farming, each season a renewal of the pact between human endeavor and the earth's bounty. The quiet hum of machinery in the distance, the occasional rumble of a grain truck, these are the distinctive sounds of Kent, a testament to its ongoing agricultural heartbeat, a place where the future is still sown and harvested with the same fundamental respect for the soil.
Live animated radar for Kent 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.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Kent, Wilkin County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 46.436349°N, 96.684799°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 56553 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Kent, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Kent, 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 Kent includes coordinates 46.436349°N, 96.684799°W, situated in Wilkin County. ZIP code 56553. 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.
