Round Lake, Minnesota Weather
Round Lake, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Round Lake, Nobles County.
Full aviation weather for Round Lake is published on the Worthington Municipal Airport (KOTG) page, 15 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 Round 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 Round Lake: Sibley Municipal Airport (KISB) 30 km · Spirit Lake Municipal Airport (K0F3) 32 km · Jackson Municipal Airport (KMJQ) 41 km · Spencer Municipal Airport (KSPW) 47 km · Sheldon Regional Airport (KSHL) 47 km
Conditions reported at KOTG describe the airfield itself. Weather 15 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Round Lake specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Round Lake.
About Round Lake, Minnesota
Round Lake rests in the broad, open country where the land remembers its glacial past. It lies 61.7 miles east of Sioux Falls, SD (from Sioux Falls, SD: bearing 90°T), and is situated 8.4 miles south-east of Worthington. The sky here feels immense, a canvas that shifts from the pale blue of morning to the bruised purples and golds of twilight, casting long shadows across fields that undulate gently towards the horizon. The lake itself, a generous expanse of water, reflects this sky, its surface often a mirror for the passing clouds, disturbed only by the occasional ripple of a jumping fish or the lazy progress of a distant pleasure craft. The air carries the scent of prairie grasses, a clean, dry fragrance that mingles with the fainter, more humid perfume of the water's edge, especially potent after a summer rain. The story of Round Lake is deeply entwined with the agricultural heartland of southwestern Minnesota. Early settlers, drawn by the fertile soil and the promise of a new beginning, established farms that still define the landscape, their fields of corn and soybeans stretching out like a meticulously quilted blanket. The lake provided not just a water source but a focal point for the burgeoning community, a place for gathering and recreation. While modern agriculture remains the bedrock of the local economy, the quiet hum of machinery in the fields is punctuated by the steady rhythm of daily life in Round Lake itself, a place where neighborly greetings are still common and the pace allows for a moment to appreciate the quality of light as it filters through the leaves of the mature trees lining the streets.
Live animated radar for Round 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.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Round Lake, Nobles County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 43.54052°N, 95.468338°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 56167 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Round Lake, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Round 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 Round Lake includes coordinates 43.540520°N, 95.468338°W, situated in Nobles County. ZIP code 56167. 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.
