Westside, Iowa Weather
Westside, Iowa — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Westside, Crawford County.
Full aviation weather for Westside is published on the Denison Municipal Airport (KDNS) page, 25 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 Westside 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 Westside: Arthur N Neu Airport (KCIN) 26 km · Sac City Municipal Airport (KSKI) 37 km · Ida Grove Municipal Airport (KIDG) 42 km · Audubon County Airport (KADU) 42 km · Rockwell City Municipal Airport (K2Y4) 54 km
Conditions reported at KDNS describe the airfield itself. Weather 25 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Westside specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Westside.
About Westside, Iowa
Westside unfolds across the broad shoulders of western Iowa, a place where the horizon stretches out like an unwritten page. It lies 67.7 miles north-east of Council Bluffs, IA (from Council Bluffs, IA: bearing 35°T), and is situated 3.3 miles south-west of Arcadia. Rolling farmland, a patchwork of emerald and gold under the vast Iowa sky, defines the immediate landscape. Here, the air itself seems to carry the scent of turned earth and ripening corn, a subtle perfume that clings to everything. The land doesn't so much rise and fall as it breathes, great, gentle swells that invite the eye to follow them into the distance, where they meet the ever-present blue. Houses, often painted in shades of white or a soft, weathered gray, dot the fields like scattered seeds, their porch lights beginning to twinkle as dusk gathers, hinting at the quiet domesticity within. The story of Westside is deeply entwined with the agricultural pulse of Crawford County, its economy a testament to the fertile soil that has sustained generations. The land here has been worked and shaped, its bounty harvested and sent out into the world, a quiet contribution to the broader American table. This has always been a place where hard work and the changing seasons dictated the rhythm of life, a tradition that continues to hold sway. While not marked by grand monuments, the subtle elegance of a well-tended farmstead, the sturdy grain elevators standing sentinel against the sky, and the enduring sense of neighborliness are the hallmarks of Westside’s character, a quiet strength born of the land and the people who call it home.
Live animated radar for Westside 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 | Westside, Crawford County, Iowa |
| Coordinates | 42.059152°N, 95.098048°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 51467 |
| Area Code | 563 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Westside, Iowa Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Westside, 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 Westside includes coordinates 42.059152°N, 95.098048°W, situated in Crawford County. ZIP code 51467. 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.
