Delta, Iowa Weather
Delta, Iowa — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Delta, Keokuk County.
Full aviation weather for Delta is published on the Oskaloosa Municipal Airport (KOOA) page, 17 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. 6 airfields within reach of Delta 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 Delta: Ottumwa Regional Airport (KOTM) 26 km · Fairfield Municipal Airport (KFFL) 42 km · Albia Municipal Airport (K4C8) 52 km · Pella Municipal Airport (KPEA) 52 km · Grinnell Regional Airport (KGGI) 55 km
Conditions reported at KOOA describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Delta specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Delta.
About Delta, Iowa
Delta lies in the embrace of Iowa's rolling farmland, a place where the land itself seems to breathe with a quiet, steady rhythm. It lies 21.3 miles north-north-east of Ottumwa, IA (from Ottumwa, IA: bearing 11°T), and is situated 6.6 miles west of Sigourney. Here, the sky stretches wide and generous, a canvas for clouds that drift like slow, thoughtful giants across the blue. Fields of corn and soybeans, emerald green in the summer and burnished gold in the autumn, unfurl in broad, undulating waves, broken only by the darker, more intimate green of wooded draws and the silver threads of creeks that snake through the landscape. The air, especially in the early morning, carries the clean, damp scent of earth and growing things, a palpable sweetness that promises abundance. The history of Delta is written in the soil and the enduring spirit of its people, a lineage forged from the hardworking settlers who first claimed this prairie. This is a place where the local economy has always been tied to the bounty of the land, where generations have coaxed sustenance from the rich Iowa earth through diligent farming. While not a bustling metropolis, Delta has a character all its own, a sense of quiet continuity where the past is not forgotten but lives on in the present. The grain elevators, standing sentinel against the horizon, are more than just storage; they are monuments to the agricultural heritage that defines this corner of Keokuk County, a testament to the enduring agricultural heart of Delta.
Live animated radar for Delta 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.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Delta, Keokuk County, Iowa |
| Coordinates | 41.322788°N, 92.330184°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 52550 |
| Area Code | 712 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Delta, Iowa Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Delta, 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 Delta includes coordinates 41.322788°N, 92.330184°W, situated in Keokuk County. ZIP code 52550. Telephone area code: 712. 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.
