Finley, ND Weather

Steele County12:32 PM CDT47.51°N, 97.84°WElevation 1,453 ft

Current conditions

Partly Sunny
67°
Partly Sunny
Feels like 67°
High 72°·Low 49°
WindSSE 22 mph gusts 33 mph
Humidity65%
Dew point55°
Cloud cover58%
UV index2 Low
Sunrise8:02 AM
Sunset6:30 PM

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

Forecast

10-day

  • Friday

    A slight chance of rain after 5pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 72. South southeast wind 12 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

  • Friday Night

    A slight chance of rain before 7pm. Partly cloudy. Low around 49, with temperatures rising to around 58 overnight. South wind 18 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

  • Saturday

    Mostly sunny, with a high near 54. West wind 18 to 33 mph, with gusts as high as 48 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 12 hrs ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Partly Sunny 67°
  2. 1 PM Partly Sunny 68°
  3. 2 PM Mostly Cloudy 71°10%
  4. 3 PM Mostly Cloudy 72°10%
  5. 4 PM Mostly Cloudy 71°14%
  6. 5 PM Slight Chance Light Rain 71°20%
  7. 6 PM Slight Chance Light Rain 70°21%
  8. 7 PM Mostly Cloudy 67°
  9. 8 PM Cloudy 65°
  10. 9 PM Mostly Cloudy 65°
  11. 10 PM Mostly Cloudy 65°
  12. 11 PM Partly Cloudy 65°
  13. Sat12 AM Mostly Clear 65°
  14. 1 AM Partly Cloudy 65°
  15. 2 AM Mostly Clear 64°
  16. 3 AM Mostly Clear 63°
  17. 4 AM Mostly Clear 62°
  18. 5 AM Partly Cloudy 58°
  19. 6 AM Mostly Sunny 56°
  20. 7 AM Partly Sunny 54°
  21. 8 AM Mostly Cloudy 50°
  22. 9 AM Mostly Sunny 49°
  23. 10 AM Mostly Sunny 50°
  24. 11 AM Sunny 51°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. TonightOct 22 Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy51°
  2. TodayOct 23 Partly Sunny then Slight Chance Light Rain Partly Sunny then Slight Chance Light Rain21%49°72°
  3. SatOct 24 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny33°54°
  4. SunOct 25 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny10%29°47°
  5. MonOct 26 Partly Sunny then Slight Chance Light Rain Partly Sunny then Slight Chance Light Rain27%29°42°
  6. TueOct 27 Chance Light Rain Chance Light Rain30%36°46°
  7. WedOct 28 Chance Light Rain Chance Light Rain30%32°49°
  8. ThuOct 29 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny10%47°
  9. FriOct 30 Sunny Sunny25°40°
  10. SatOct 31 Mostly sunny Mostly sunny27°42°

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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Sun & moon

Sunrise 8:02 AM
Sunset 6:30 PM
Daylight 10 h 28 min (−3 min 14 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 93% lit
Moonrise 5:05 PM Moonset 5:03 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

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Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in FGF, issued 5 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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