Murdock, Minnesota Weather
Murdock, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Murdock, Swift County.
Full aviation weather for Murdock is published on the Benson Municipal Airport (KBBB) page, 23 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 Murdock 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 Murdock: Willmar Municipal Airport John L Rice Field (2006) (KBDH) 24 km · Montevideo Chippewa County Airport (KMVE) 38 km · Brooten Municipal Airport (K6D1) 38 km · Glenwood Municipal Airport (KGHW) 47 km · Appleton Municipal Airport (KAQP) 48 km
Conditions reported at KBBB describe the airfield itself. Weather 23 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Murdock specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Murdock.
About Murdock, Minnesota
Murdock lies settled in the wide, sun-washed plains of west-central Minnesota, where the horizon stretches with an almost audacious indifference to human scale. It lies 64.1 miles west-south-west of St. Cloud, MN (from St. Cloud, MN: bearing 249°T), and is situated 4.1 miles west-north-west of Kerkhoven. The land here is a broad, benevolent expanse, a rumpled quilt of agricultural fields that shift in hue from the deep, fertile brown of freshly turned earth to the muted gold of ripening grain under a sky that often feels impossibly vast. Scattered groves of trees, their branches reaching like supplicant arms, break the monotony, offering pockets of dappled shade where the wind sighs through leaves with a sound like distant water. The air, especially in the languid afternoons of summer, carries the clean, earthy scent of growing things and the faint, sweet perfume of wildflowers clinging to the ditches. The history of Murdock is as deeply rooted in the soil as the corn and soybeans that dominate its landscape. Founded by settlers drawn to the rich farmland, the town's economy has long been tethered to the cycles of agriculture, a dependence that imbues the community with a sense of enduring resilience. The grain elevators, tall sentinels against the prairie sky, still stand as proud testaments to this vital connection, their silos a silent promise of sustenance. While the broader agricultural sector has seen its shifts, Murdock retains a character shaped by the quiet diligence of farmers and the neighborly spirit that blossoms when lives are lived in close proximity, under the same immense, ever-changing sky.
Live animated radar for Murdock 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 | Murdock, Swift County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 45.223849°N, 95.393358°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 56271 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Murdock, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Murdock, 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 Murdock includes coordinates 45.223849°N, 95.393358°W, situated in Swift County. ZIP code 56271. 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.
