Wood Lake, Minnesota Weather
Wood Lake, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Wood Lake, Yellow Medicine County.
Full aviation weather for Wood Lake is published on the Granite Falls Municipal Airport / Lenzen-Roe Memorial Field (KGDB) page, 11 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 Wood 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 Wood Lake: Southwest Minnesota Regional Airport - Marshall/Ryan Field (KMML) 32 km · Montevideo Chippewa County Airport (KMVE) 38 km · Redwood Falls Municipal Airport (KRWF) 38 km · Olivia Regional Airport (KOVL) 42 km · Tracy Municipal Airport (KTKC) 45 km
Conditions reported at KGDB describe the airfield itself. Weather 11 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Wood Lake specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Wood Lake.
About Wood Lake, Minnesota
Wood Lake lies under a vast sweep of prairie sky, its flat expanse broken only by the quiet shimmer of the water itself. It lies 52.9 miles north-west of Brown, MN (from Brown, MN: bearing 304°T), and is situated 7.3 miles east-north-east of Cottonwood. The land here rolls with a subtle, almost imperceptible swell, a memory of ancient glaciers that carved the terrain into its present form. Fields of corn and soybeans stretch to the horizon, their green and gold hues shifting with the wind, a living testament to the deep, rich soil that defines this place. The air itself carries a clean, dry scent, sharpened by the distant whisper of wind through prairie grasses, and the sunlight, especially in the late afternoon, seems to possess a peculiar, golden quality, as if strained through a fine sieve of dust and time. The history of Wood Lake is written in the grain elevators that still stand, stark sentinels against the sky, remnants of a time when agriculture was the undisputed king of this territory. The local economy, though diversified somewhat, still hinges on the bounty of the land, with farming and related industries forming its backbone. This region, once a vital artery for the railroad, now hums with a quieter, more grounded energy, the rhythm of life dictated by the seasons and the ceaseless turning of the earth. While no grand monuments mark its past, the enduring character of Wood Lake is found in the stoic resilience of its people and the unvarnished beauty of its open landscapes, a stark and honest beauty that asks for no embellishment.
Live animated radar for Wood 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 | Wood Lake, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 44.652735°N, 95.53835°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 56297 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Wood Lake, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Wood 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 Wood Lake includes coordinates 44.652735°N, 95.538350°W, situated in Yellow Medicine County. ZIP code 56297. 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.
