Ashley, North Dakota Weather
Ashley, North Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Ashley, McIntosh County.
Full aviation weather for Ashley is published on the Ashley Municipal Airport (KASY) page, 2 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. 3 airfields within reach of Ashley 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 Ashley: Wishek Municipal Airport (K6L5) 27 km · Eureka Municipal Airport (K3W8) 34 km
Conditions reported at KASY describe the airfield itself. Weather 2 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Ashley specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Ashley.
About Ashley, North Dakota
Ashley lies at the heart of a vast, undulating prairie, a place where the sky feels immense and the horizon stretches out like an unspooled ribbon. It lies 58.0 miles north-west of Aberdeen, SD (from Aberdeen, SD: bearing 313°T), and is situated 17.8 miles south-south-east of Wishek. The land here is a study in subtle earth tones, a mosaic of cultivated fields and wilder grasslands that shift in hue with the changing seasons. Summer afternoons can settle with a heavy, golden stillness, the air thick with the scent of ripening wheat and the hum of unseen insects. Winter brings a stark, clean beauty, the landscape sculpted by wind into drifts of snow that gleam under a pale sun, and the silence is profound, broken only by the creak of frozen fences or the distant call of a hawk. The very character of Ashley is etched into this open country, a quiet resilience born from the elements and the sheer expanse of the land. The story of Ashley is deeply entwined with the agricultural bounty of this fertile prairie soil. Established by German-Russian immigrants seeking land and opportunity, the town became a hub for farming communities, with grain elevators standing as silent sentinels against the endless sky, monuments to the harvest. The local economy, though it has seen its share of shifts, remains anchored in the land, with cattle ranches and crop farms still defining the rhythm of life. A distinctive German heritage permeates Ashley, evident in the architecture of older buildings and the lingering echoes of traditions, a cultural thread that has endured through generations, lending a unique flavor to the quiet commerce and social gatherings that define Ashley's enduring presence.
Live animated radar for Ashley 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 | Ashley, McIntosh County, North Dakota |
| Coordinates | 46.034141°N, 99.371503°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 58413 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Ashley, North Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ashley, North Dakota, 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 Ashley includes coordinates 46.034141°N, 99.371503°W, situated in McIntosh County. ZIP code 58413. Telephone area code: 701. 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.
