Buffalo, Wisconsin Weather
Buffalo, Wisconsin — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Buffalo, Buffalo County.
Full aviation weather for Buffalo is published on the Winona Municipal Airport Max Conrad Field (KONA) page, 8 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 Buffalo 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 Buffalo: La Crosse Regional Airport (KLSE) 36 km · Houston County Airport (KCHU) 54 km
Conditions reported at KONA describe the airfield itself. Weather 8 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Buffalo specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Buffalo.
About Buffalo, Wisconsin
Buffalo rests in a landscape shaped by the slow, persistent work of water and ice, where steep bluffs, cloaked in oak and maple, plunge towards the broad, muddy expanse of the Mississippi River. It lies 1.9 miles north-east of Winona, MN (from Winona, MN: bearing 40°T), and is situated 4.1 miles east of Goodview. The air here carries the damp, earthy scent of the river bottom, a perpetual reminder of the powerful waterway that defines the horizon, and in the late afternoon, the sun bleeds a bruised, golden light across the water, catching the rust-colored hulls of barges moving with a quiet, determined grace. The land rises sharply from the river's edge, a series of rugged hills and valleys that have resisted easy settlement, lending Buffalo a certain hard-won resilience, a character carved by wind and water rather than smoothed by manicured hands. The history of Buffalo is inextricably tied to the Mississippi, a lifeline for the steamboats that once plied its waters and the logging industry that drew men and fortunes to its banks. Though the grand era of steamboating has long since faded, the river still dictates the rhythm of life, its currents carrying away the surplus of the surrounding farmland and bringing in the necessities of commerce. The economy of Buffalo remains rooted in agriculture, with the fertile bottomlands yielding corn and soybeans, and the surrounding hills providing pasture for livestock, a continuation of the agricultural traditions that have sustained the region for generations. Local businesses, from the hardware store to the diner, reflect this enduring connection to the land and the river, their conversations often turning to the weather, the river levels, and the coming harvest, a quiet testament to a life lived in close communion with the natural world.
Live animated radar for Buffalo 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 | Buffalo, Buffalo County, Wisconsin |
| Coordinates | 44.070937°N, 91.61488°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 54629, 54622 |
| Area Code | 715 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Buffalo, Wisconsin Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Buffalo, Wisconsin, 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 Buffalo includes coordinates 44.070937°N, 91.614880°W, situated in Buffalo County. ZIP code 54629, 54622. Telephone area code: 715. 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.
