Carter Lake, Iowa Weather
Carter Lake, Iowa — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery for Carter Lake, Pottawattamie County.
Full aviation weather for Carter Lake is published on the Eppley Airfield (KOMA) page, 2 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 5 airfields within reach of Carter Lake have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Carter Lake: Council Bluffs Municipal Airport (KCBF) 14 km · Offutt Air Force Base (KOFF) 19 km · Woodbine Municipal Airport (K3Y4) 53 km · Harlan Municipal Airport (KHNR) 58 km
Conditions reported at KOMA describe the airfield itself. Weather 2 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Carter Lake specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Carter Lake, Iowa
Carter Lake hums with a quiet resilience, a place where the land dips and rises in gentle swells, hinting at the ancient dance of glaciers. It lies 2.4 miles north-north-east of Omaha, NE (from Omaha, NE: bearing 25°T), and is situated 3.6 miles west-north-west of Council Bluffs. The sky here feels vast, an endless canvas where clouds drift like slow ships across the blue. Small groves of cottonwood trees, their leaves rustling like whispered secrets, punctuate the fields of corn and soybeans that stretch towards horizons softened by the humid air. The very ground seems to breathe, a subtle exhaling of rich, dark soil that holds the promise of harvest, and in the evenings, the air often carries the faint, sweet scent of ripening grain. The history of Carter Lake is entwined with the meandering spirit of the Missouri River, a waterway that once shaped and reshaped the very contours of this land. It was the river’s caprice that ultimately gifted Carter Lake its distinctive geography, isolating a portion of Nebraska to become an Iowa exclave, a curious anomaly that lends a certain charm to its identity. For generations, agriculture has been the bedrock of its economy, the steady rhythm of planting and reaping dictating the pulse of life. Though the agricultural roots run deep, the proximity to larger urban centers has also fostered a more varied character, with a blend of small businesses and a residential community that draws its strength from both the land and its people.
Live animated radar for Carter Lake and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
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| Location | Carter Lake, Pottawattamie County, Iowa |
| Coordinates | 41.290553°N, 95.918069°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 51510 |
| Area Code | 641 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Carter Lake, Iowa Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Carter Lake, Iowa, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Carter Lake includes coordinates 41.290553°N, 95.918069°W, situated in Pottawattamie County. ZIP code 51510. Telephone area code: 641. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
