Lanesboro, Iowa Weather
Lanesboro, Iowa — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Lanesboro, Carroll County.
Full aviation weather for Lanesboro is published on the Arthur N Neu Airport (KCIN) 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 Lanesboro 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 Lanesboro: Rockwell City Municipal Airport (K2Y4) 23 km · Sac City Municipal Airport (KSKI) 32 km · Jefferson Municipal Airport (KEFW) 35 km · Audubon County Airport (KADU) 57 km · Fort Dodge Regional Airport (KFOD) 58 km
Conditions reported at KCIN describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Lanesboro specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Lanesboro.
About Lanesboro, Iowa
Lanesboro lies in a gentle hollow, a place where the land rolls with a farmer's patience, softening the prairie's edge. It lies 55.9 miles west of Ames, IA (from Ames, IA: bearing 281°T), and is situated 6.1 miles south-south-east of Lake City. The fields here are broad canvases of green and gold, stitched together by the faintest threads of tree lines that mark the slow meandering of Willow Creek. The air, particularly in the early morning, carries a clean, damp scent of soil and growing things, a promise of the day's labor. Houses, painted in muted tones that echo the sky and the earth, stand with a quiet dignity, their porches offering small, shaded sanctuaries from the sun's broad stare. Dusk here doesn't fall so much as it seeps, bleeding soft purples and oranges across the immense western sky, turning the distant silos into darker, more solemn shapes. The history of Lanesboro is written in the fertile soil that has sustained it for generations, the rhythm of its life dictated by the planting and the harvest. Early settlers, drawn by the promise of rich farmland, established a community that grew around the needs of agriculture, its economy still deeply rooted in the bounty of the surrounding countryside. While the broader landscape is shaped by vast agricultural expanses, the town itself is a compact arrangement of businesses that serve its people and the passing traveler, a place where the local hardware store still hums with the quiet industry of practical needs. The Willow Creek, though not a grand river, offers a quiet, persistent presence, its banks a place where the townspeople might walk and reflect, a subtle counterpoint to the open expanse of the fields that define Lanesboro.
Live animated radar for Lanesboro 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 | Lanesboro, Carroll County, Iowa |
| Coordinates | 42.184428°N, 94.691369°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 51451 |
| Area Code | 563 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Lanesboro, Iowa Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lanesboro, 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 Lanesboro includes coordinates 42.184428°N, 94.691369°W, situated in Carroll County. ZIP code 51451. Telephone area code: 563. 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.
