Udell, Iowa Weather
Udell, Iowa — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Udell, Appanoose County.
Full aviation weather for Udell is published on the Centerville Municipal Airport (KTVK) 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 Udell 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 Udell: Albia Municipal Airport (K4C8) 24 km · Bloomfield Municipal Airport (K4K6) 27 km · Unionville Municipal Airport (K43) 36 km · Corydon Airport (K0E9) 42 km · Ottumwa Regional Airport (KOTM) 44 km
Conditions reported at KTVK describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Udell specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Udell.
About Udell, Iowa
Udell sits in a quiet pocket of Appanoose County, where the land gently rolls and swells, a soft green quilt stitched with the darker threads of timber stands. It lies 23.9 miles south-west of Ottumwa, IA (from Ottumwa, IA: bearing 226°T), and is situated 7.6 miles east-north-east of Centerville. The air here, particularly after a summer rain, carries the clean scent of damp earth and ripening corn, a fragrance that clings to the senses. Fields of soybeans and corn stretch towards horizons that seem to go on forever, their stalks a rustling chorus in the slightest breeze. The sky above Udell is a generous canvas, often painted with dramatic clouds that cast fleeting shadows across the undulating terrain, lending a sense of depth and constant, subtle change to the landscape. The history of Udell is tied to the agricultural heartland of Iowa, a place where the land itself has dictated the pace of life and the shape of its economy for generations. While the days of large-scale coal mining that once characterized parts of Appanoose County have largely faded, the spirit of perseverance remains, evident in the farms that continue to work this fertile soil. Local businesses, small but resilient, serve the needs of the surrounding countryside, their doors opening early to greet the day and their proprietors knowing most faces by name. There’s a quiet dignity to Udell, a sense that its story is still being written, one season at a time, by the hardworking people who call it home.
Live animated radar for Udell 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 | Udell, Appanoose County, Iowa |
| Coordinates | 40.780849°N, 92.742138°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 52593 |
| Area Code | 712 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Udell, Iowa Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Udell, 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 Udell includes coordinates 40.780849°N, 92.742138°W, situated in Appanoose County. ZIP code 52593. 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.
