Rochester, MN Weather Forecast
Olmsted County, Minnesota
Seven-day outlook
37–63°F across the weekThe week runs between 37° and 63°, with Tuesday the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Friday is the coolest day in it. Tomorrow is the wettest day, peaking near 82%. 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 Rochester forecast
Rochester sits at 44.0143°N, 92.4786°W in Olmsted 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
- Olmsted County
- Coordinates
- 44.0143°N, 92.4786°W
- Population
- 122,413 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 56.486 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Rochester, 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 Rochester?
The nearest Doppler radar is KARX (La Crosse, WI), 65 miles to the E. 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 Rochester its center is about 5,200 ft above ground. That is far enough out that the beam has climbed above the lowest few thousand feet. Storm structure aloft is visible; a shallow circulation near the ground may not be, and a warning here can arrive before anything looks dramatic on the radar picture.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is K9MN · Rochester/Mayo-St Marys on the ASOS/AWOS network, 0.4 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.
Forecasts near Rochester
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- Pine Island, MN15 mi
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