North Branch, Minnesota Weather
North Branch, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for North Branch, Chisago County.
Full aviation weather for North Branch is published on the Rush City Regional Airport (KROS) page, 21 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 North Branch 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 North Branch: Cambridge Municipal Airport (KCBG) 23 km · Forest Lake Airport (K25D) 29 km · L O Simenstad Municipal Airport (KOEO) 32 km · Grantsburg Municipal Airport (KGTG) 40 km · Anoka County-Blaine (Janes Field) Airport (KANE) 45 km
Conditions reported at KROS describe the airfield itself. Weather 21 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at North Branch specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for North Branch.
About North Branch, Minnesota
North Branch lies where the land begins to roll, a gentle rise and fall of earth that cradles stands of oak and maple, their branches reaching out like patient hands. It lies 24.4 miles north-east of Andover, MN (from Andover, MN: bearing 38°T), and is situated 7.8 miles north of Stacy. The air here, especially in the low-slung mornings, carries the damp, fertile scent of soil recently worked, a promise of growth clinging to the dew-kissed fields. Fields that stretch, broad and green or gold depending on the season's turn, broken by the dark, dense edges of woods and the occasional glint of a slow-moving creek, its banks fringed with cattails that rustle secrets in the breeze. The sky above North Branch is a vast, uninhibited canvas, painted with clouds that drift with a languid, unhurried grace, their shadows sweeping across the landscape like slow breaths. Even the sunlight seems to have a certain weight to it, a golden, almost viscous quality that pools in the hollows and catches the dust motes dancing in the quiet air. The history of North Branch is etched not in grand monuments but in the enduring patterns of the land and the generations who have coaxed a living from it. Once, this was a place of logging and agriculture, the timber that built so much of the region now a memory in the aged wood of old barns and the persistent re-growth of the forests. Today, the economy of North Branch is a blend of those agricultural roots, with farms still dotting the horizon, and a growing presence of small businesses that serve the needs of the surrounding communities. There's a quiet industriousness here, a steady hum of activity rather than a roar, often punctuated by the rumble of machinery on a distant farm or the cheerful chatter spilling from the local diner. The landscape itself, with its clearings and dense woodlots, hints at the careful balance the people of North Branch have struck between taming the wild and respecting its untamed heart.
Live animated radar for North Branch 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 | North Branch, Chisago County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 45.511352°N, 92.980218°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 55056 |
| Area Code | 612, 952 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This North Branch, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for North Branch, 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 North Branch includes coordinates 45.511352°N, 92.980218°W, situated in Chisago County. ZIP code 55056. Telephone area code: 612, 952. 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.
