Park Rapids, MN Weather Forecast
Hubbard County, Minnesota
Seven-day outlook
27–61°F across the weekThe week runs between 26° and 61°, with Sunday the warmest day of it. The second half leans warming, and today is the coolest day in it. Monday is the wettest day, peaking near 52%. 3 of the 7 days stay dry.
Forecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.
The written summaries on this page are generated from the forecast data above, not by a meteorologist. Each sentence is a reading of the same numbers you can see, and no forecaster has reviewed them.
About the Park Rapids forecast
Park Rapids sits at 46.9164°N, 95.0579°W in Hubbard County, Minnesota. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.
- County
- Hubbard County
- Coordinates
- 46.9164°N, 95.0579°W
- Population
- 4,302 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 7.389 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Park Rapids, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.
How well can the network see Park Rapids?
The nearest Doppler radar is KMVX (Grand Forks, ND), 114 miles to the WNW. A WSR-88D's lowest routine scan sits half a degree above horizontal, and the earth curves away beneath it, so by the time that beam reaches Park Rapids its center is about 11,800 ft above ground. At that range the beam overshoots the layer where severe weather organizes. The radar is describing the middle of the storm, not its base , which is why a warning for Park Rapids can look unsupported on the mosaic and still be right. Trust the warning over the picture.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KPKD · Park Rapids/Konshok Fld on the ASOS/AWOS network, 1.4 miles away. Close enough that its readings are, for practical purposes, the conditions in town.
Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the Minnesota observing network as of this build.
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