Crookston, MN Weather

Polk County12:07 AM CDT47.77°N, 96.61°WElevation 876 ft

Current conditions

Slight Chance Light Rain
65°
Slight Chance Light Rain
Feels like 65°
High 62°·Low 56° tonight
WindS 25 mph gusts 37 mph
Humidity60%
Dew point51°
Cloud cover56%
UV index0 Low
Sunrise7:59 AM
Sunset6:23 PM

Forecast for this hour (no station report in the last two hours)

Forecast

10-day

  • Friday Night

    A slight chance of rain after 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. South wind 21 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

  • Saturday

    A slight chance of rain before 7am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. West wind 15 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

  • Saturday Night

    Partly cloudy, with a low around 32. West northwest wind 6 to 14 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 1 day ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Slight Chance Light Rain 65°18%
  2. 1 AM Slight Chance Light Rain 66°17%
  3. 2 AM Slight Chance Light Rain 65°17%
  4. 3 AM Slight Chance Light Rain 64°17%
  5. 4 AM Slight Chance Light Rain 63°17%
  6. 5 AM Slight Chance Light Rain 62°17%
  7. 6 AM Slight Chance Light Rain 60°17%
  8. 7 AM Partly Sunny 58°
  9. 8 AM Partly Sunny 57°
  10. 9 AM Partly Sunny 57°
  11. 10 AM Partly Sunny 57°
  12. 11 AM Mostly Sunny 57°
  13. 12 PM Mostly Sunny 57°
  14. 1 PM Mostly Sunny 57°
  15. 2 PM Mostly Sunny 57°
  16. 3 PM Mostly Sunny 57°
  17. 4 PM Mostly Sunny 57°
  18. 5 PM Mostly Sunny 55°
  19. 6 PM Partly Cloudy 52°
  20. 7 PM Partly Cloudy 50°
  21. 8 PM Partly Cloudy 48°
  22. 9 PM Partly Cloudy 47°
  23. 10 PM Partly Cloudy 45°
  24. 11 PM Partly Cloudy 43°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. ThuOct 22 Sunny Sunny57°76°
  2. FriOct 23 Partly Sunny then Chance Light Rain Partly Sunny then Chance Light Rain29%56°77°
  3. TodayOct 24 Slight Chance Light Rain then Mostly Sunny Slight Chance Light Rain then Mostly Sunny17%32°62°
  4. SunOct 25 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny30°47°
  5. MonOct 26 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny16%29°45°
  6. TueOct 27 Slight Chance Rain And Snow then Partly Sunny Slight Chance Rain And Snow then Partly Sunny17%34°48°
  7. WedOct 28 Slight Chance Light Rain Slight Chance Light Rain22%34°51°
  8. ThuOct 29 Cloudy Cloudy31°39°
  9. FriOct 30 Sunny Sunny31°50°
  10. SatOct 31 Cloudy Cloudy37°47°

Days after the National Weather Service's seven are MET Norway's outlook, a computer model with no forecaster's review.

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Air quality

43
Good
Fine particles (PM2.5)

Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.

Forecast

  • SatGood (33)
  • SunGood
  • MonGood

Red River Valley North, MN reporting area · 2 hrs ago. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 7:59 AM
Sunset 6:23 PM
Daylight 10 h 24 min (−3 min 15 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 95% lit
Moonrise 5:17 PM Moonset 6:11 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low49° / 30°
Month to date0.05 in (normal 1.63 in)

Crookston Nw Exp Sta, records since 1890. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in FGF, issued 16 hrs ago

Key Messages

- Well above average temperatures today, followed by near average temperatures this weekend into next week.

- There is a medium chance for scattered weak thunderstorms Friday afternoon. Main hazard would be lightning.

Discussion

Issued at 342 PM CDT Thu Oct 22 2026

...Synopsis...

Blocked upper ridging remains over the central CONUS, with upper troughing over the West Coast. This upper ridging is driving well above average temperatures in the 70s currently over the region. Weak embedded impulse moving through the flow is utilizing weak instability aloft, helping spark scattered rain/virga showers in northeast ND and northwest MN this afternoon into evening. Dry air in the lower levels will prevent much of this precipitation from reaching the ground, thus added sprinkles to the forecast to account for this.

On Friday, well above average temperatures will occur once more with widespread 70s forecast during the day. While temperatures will be mild, gusty southerly winds 20-40 mph will also build starting Friday by late morning, lasting through the day.

Upper trough in the West will attempt to break eastward, although all guidance suggests this will occur in a split-flow- like regime, with the northern branch of the upper trough in northern CONUS and Canada separating from the southern branch lingering in the Southwest. As it does this, it brings sufficient moisture and lift to bring scattered showers Friday afternoon into evening. Most guidance also indicates at sufficient instability aloft to bring lightning/thunderstorms into the conversation. A lack of better instability, moisture, and wind shear spacing will mitigate how strong thunderstorms will be - likely keeping storms weak.

Strong cold front moves through Friday night into Saturday driven by the northern branch of the upper trough. This ends our well above average temperatures, with most locations seeing daily high temperatures Saturday occur just ahead of this cold front, occurring early morning Saturday.

Aviation

Issued at 705 AM CDT Fri Oct 23 2026

Will have increasing high and mid clouds going thru today. South-southeast winds increase and will become gusty this afternoon with gusts over 30 kts likely mid afternoon thru mid evening. Low level jet over the area this evening with a south jet of around 45-50 kts at 2000 ft agl focused in Minnesota. Wind shift to the southwest and then west very late tonight into Devils Lake basin.

Fgf Watches

ND...None. MN...None.

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