Wahpeton, ND Weather

Richland County9:39 PM CDT46.27°N, 96.61°WElevation 965 ft

Current conditions

Mostly Cloudy
67°
Mostly Cloudy
Feels like 67°
High 61° Saturday·Low 55° tonight
WindSSE 25 mph gusts 37 mph
Humidity56%
Dew point51°
Cloud cover70%
UV index0 Low
Sunrise7:55 AM
Sunset6:28 PM

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

Forecast

10-day

  • Friday Night

    Partly cloudy. Low around 55, with temperatures rising to around 64 overnight. South southeast wind 16 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

  • Saturday

    A slight chance of rain showers before 7am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 61. West wind 13 to 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

  • Saturday Night

    Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. Northwest wind 3 to 10 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 18 hrs ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Mostly Cloudy 67°
  2. 10 PM Mostly Cloudy 67°
  3. 11 PM Partly Cloudy 66°
  4. Sat12 AM Partly Cloudy 66°
  5. 1 AM Partly Cloudy 66°
  6. 2 AM Mostly Clear 66°
  7. 3 AM Mostly Clear 65°
  8. 4 AM Mostly Clear 65°
  9. 5 AM Partly Cloudy 64°
  10. 6 AM Slight Chance Rain Showers 61°17%
  11. 7 AM Mostly Sunny 60°
  12. 8 AM Mostly Cloudy 57°
  13. 9 AM Mostly Sunny 56°
  14. 10 AM Mostly Sunny 56°
  15. 11 AM Mostly Sunny 57°
  16. 12 PM Mostly Sunny 58°
  17. 1 PM Sunny 58°
  18. 2 PM Sunny 59°
  19. 3 PM Mostly Sunny 58°
  20. 4 PM Mostly Sunny 57°
  21. 5 PM Sunny 57°
  22. 6 PM Partly Cloudy 54°
  23. 7 PM Partly Cloudy 51°
  24. 8 PM Mostly Cloudy 48°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. TonightOct 22 Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy57°
  2. TodayOct 23 Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms45%55°75°
  3. SatOct 24 Slight Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny Slight Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny17%32°61°
  4. SunOct 25 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny27%33°52°
  5. MonOct 26 Chance Light Rain Chance Light Rain61%33°46°
  6. TueOct 27 Chance Light Rain Chance Light Rain51%38°52°
  7. WedOct 28 Chance Light Rain Chance Light Rain39%35°57°
  8. ThuOct 29 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny53°
  9. FriOct 30 Partly cloudy Partly cloudy28°43°
  10. SatOct 31 Sunny Sunny30°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

41
Good
Fine particles (PM2.5)

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

Forecast

  • FriGood (44)
  • SatGood (33)
  • SunGood

Red River Valley South, MN reporting area · 1 hr ago. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 7:55 AM
Sunset 6:28 PM
Daylight 10 h 32 min (−3 min 5 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 95% lit
Moonrise 5:00 PM Moonset 4:58 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

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Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in FGF, issued 14 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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