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Weather in Rice Lake, MN · National Weather Service + NOAA

Rice Lake is snow country

Rice Lake has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. A typical July afternoon reaches 77°, a January night drops to 1°, and about 90 inches of snow falls in a normal winter. A typical November afternoon reaches 36°, and nights fall to 21°.

Winter 22°/4°Spring 49°/27°Summer 75°/51°Fall 51°/33°
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Sunrise 7:55 am · sunset 5:48 pm

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What stands out about Rice Lake’s weather

Read from 30 years of NOAA records. Each one opens the full story on the Climate page.

Climate →
Snow countryAbout 90 inches a winter, more than 2,437 of 2,448 Minnesota towns.Real wintersJanuary nights average 1°, colder than 96% of U.S. towns.Cool summersJuly afternoons average 77°, cooler than 96% of U.S. towns.Warming faster than mostThe last 30 years averaged 1.9° warmer than the 1900s, a bigger shift than 90% of U.S. towns.
A normal year

Where today sits in Rice Lake’s year

Typical highs and lows month by month, from 30 years of NOAA records.

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Winter
22° / 4°
25 days with an inch or more of snow
Spring
49° / 27°
Last frost around May 13
Summer
75° / 51°
2 days reach 90° in a normal year
Fall now
51° / 33°
First frost around Oct 1
Pastthe usual first frost (Oct 1). Last frost next spring: May 13
Best months to be outside
JunJulAugSep
Highs of 62–84° and lows of 40° or more
How much snow does Rice Lake get?About 90 inches a winter.When is it wettest?June, with 4.4 inches.Is it warmer than it used to be?+1.9° vs. the 20th century.

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Forecast, conditions and alerts: National Weather Service. Climate: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020 and 1901–2000. Temperatures and rainfall come from NOAA’s gridded normals for Rice Lake itself (about a 3-mile square). Snow, frost dates and day counts: the NOAA station at Duluth, MN (6 mi). Sunrise and sunset are calculated from the town’s position. Normals are 30-year averages, not a forecast.