Searles, Minnesota Weather
Searles, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Searles, Brown County.
Full aviation weather for Searles is published on the New Ulm Municipal Airport (KULM) page, 12 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. 5 airfields within reach of Searles 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 Searles: St James Municipal Airport (KJYG) 29 km · Mankato Regional Airport (KMKT) 41 km · Springfield Municipal Airport (KD42) 45 km · Le Sueur Municipal Airport (K12Y) 48 km
Conditions reported at KULM describe the airfield itself. Weather 12 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Searles specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Searles.
About Searles, Minnesota
Searles rests in a broad, fertile valley, a place where the horizon seems to stretch endlessly under a sky that can shift from a fierce, electric blue to a bruised, smudged grey in the span of an afternoon. It lies 10.4 miles east of Brown, MN (from Brown, MN: bearing 90°T), and is situated 5.9 miles south-south-east of New Ulm. The land here is a deep, dark loam, a rich testament to generations of cultivation, gently rolling into the distance like the slumbering back of some colossal beast. Fields of corn, their stalks reaching towards the sun with a rustling murmur, give way to pastures where cattle graze, their forms softened by the hazy luminescence of the prairie light. The air itself carries a clean, earthy scent, tinged with the faint sweetness of ripening grain and the distant promise of rain. The story of Searles is one of the prairie's enduring spirit, a history etched not in grand monuments but in the quiet perseverance of those who worked this land. Its economy has long been tied to the bounty of the soil, with agriculture forming the bedrock of its existence, a steady hum of tractors and combines marking the seasons. Though small, Searles has seen its share of change, adapting and enduring, a small cluster of buildings holding fast against the vastness of the plains. The subtle architecture, practical and unassuming, speaks of a community built on hard work and shared purpose, a place where life moves at a pace dictated by the sun and the seasons, a quiet dignity in its very being.
Live animated radar for Searles 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 | Searles, Brown County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 44.228574°N, 94.434692°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 56073, 56084 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Searles, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Searles, 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 Searles includes coordinates 44.228574°N, 94.434692°W, situated in Brown County. ZIP code 56073, 56084. 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.
