Trail, Minnesota Weather
Trail, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Trail, Polk County.
Full aviation weather for Trail is published on the Fosston Municipal Airport-Anderson Field (KFSE) 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. 4 airfields within reach of Trail 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 Trail: Bagley Municipal Airport (K7Y4) 38 km · Thief River Falls Regional Airport (KTVF) 49 km · Fertile Municipal Airport (KD14) 52 km
Conditions reported at KFSE describe the airfield itself. Weather 22 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Trail specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Trail.
About Trail, Minnesota
Trail sits under a vast, often bruised sky, a place where the land stretches out in broad, patient plains. It lies 63.0 miles east of Grand Forks, ND (from Grand Forks, ND: bearing 99°T), and is situated 14.3 miles north of Fosston. The terrain here is a study in subtle contours, a gentle swell of earth that hints at the immense geological forces that shaped it, now softened by centuries of wind and rain. Fields of wheat and corn, dressed in the muted greens and golds of the growing season, ripple under the breeze, their orderly rows a quiet testament to human endeavor against the wilder, untamed prairie. The air itself, especially in the long, slow twilight of summer, carries a clean, earthy scent, a blend of sun-baked soil and distant, unseen water. The history of Trail is etched into its very being, a story of pioneers who wrestled a living from this seemingly boundless landscape. Early settlers, drawn by the promise of fertile ground, established a community that has always held a deep reverence for the land. The local economy, still tethered to the agricultural cycles, sees prosperity ebb and flow with the bounty of the harvest. While not a bustling metropolis, Trail possesses a distinct character, a quiet resilience born of generations who understood the deep, abiding power of the prairie and the necessary partnership between humanity and the earth.
Live animated radar for Trail 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 | Trail, Polk County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 47.779958°N, 95.692241°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 56684 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Trail, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Trail, 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 Trail includes coordinates 47.779958°N, 95.692241°W, situated in Polk County. ZIP code 56684. 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.
