Rowley, Iowa Weather
Rowley, Iowa — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Rowley, Buchanan County.
Full aviation weather for Rowley is published on the Independence Municipal Airport (KIIB) page, 13 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 Rowley 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 Rowley: Vinton Veterans Memorial Airpark (KVTI) 22 km · Manchester Municipal Airport (KC27) 31 km · Oelwein Municipal Airport (KOLZ) 36 km · Marion Airport (KC17) 46 km · Waterloo Regional Airport (KALO) 50 km
Conditions reported at KIIB describe the airfield itself. Weather 13 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Rowley specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Rowley.
About Rowley, Iowa
Rowley is a place where the land itself seems to sigh with contentment, a gentle expanse of rolling farmland stretching under a wide Iowa sky. It lies 26.4 miles north-north-west of Marion, IA (from Marion, IA: bearing 332°T), and is situated 7.2 miles south-south-east of Independence. The terrain here is a study in subtlety, with the land rising and falling in soft, sweeping curves that guide the eye toward distant horizons. Fields of corn and soybeans, vibrant green in the summer sun, give way to the deeper hues of wooded ravines, where the air grows cooler and carries the scent of damp earth and decaying leaves. The very air feels clean and open, a palpable breath of the prairie that surrounds and defines Rowley. In the quiet of the evening, the setting sun paints the western sky in strokes of apricot and rose, casting long, contented shadows that deepen the contours of the fields. The history of Rowley is etched not in grand monuments but in the quiet persistence of the agricultural spirit that has shaped this corner of Buchanan County. Generations have worked this soil, coaxing life from the rich black earth, their labor forming the bedrock of the local economy. It's a place where life moves at a pace dictated by the seasons and the demands of the land, a steady, reliable rhythm that has sustained families for decades. While modern conveniences have arrived, the character of Rowley remains rooted in its agrarian heritage, a quiet testament to the enduring strength of rural life, where the harvest is a communal celebration and the silence of the fields is broken only by the distant hum of a tractor or the call of a passing bird.
Live animated radar for Rowley 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 | Rowley, Buchanan County, Iowa |
| Coordinates | 42.369989°N, 91.844062°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 52329 |
| Area Code | 712 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Rowley, Iowa Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Rowley, 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 Rowley includes coordinates 42.369989°N, 91.844062°W, situated in Buchanan County. ZIP code 52329. 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.
