Iowa, Wisconsin Weather
Iowa, Wisconsin — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Iowa, Iowa County.
Full aviation weather for Iowa is published on the Iowa County Airport (KMRJ) page, 14 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. 4 airfields within reach of Iowa 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 Iowa: Hird Airport (K9W7) 24 km · Platteville Municipal Airport (KPVB) 41 km · Lancaster Municipal Airport (K73C) 53 km
Conditions reported at KMRJ describe the airfield itself. Weather 14 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Iowa specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Iowa.
About Iowa, Wisconsin
Iowa lies in a landscape of rolling farmland, where the horizon stretches wide and the sky feels vast enough to swallow the sun. It lies 30.5 miles east of Grant, WI (from Grant, WI: bearing 90°T), and is situated 3.1 miles east-south-east of Dodgeville. The land here dips and rises in gentle swells, fields of corn and soybeans a patchwork quilt of green and gold under the wide Iowa sky. In the distance, farmhouses stand sentinel, their silos like stoic fingers pointing towards the heavens, and the air, especially in late afternoon, carries a clean, earthy scent, tinged with the sweet perfume of ripening crops. The roads are ribbons of grey, cutting straight lines across the contours of the land, leading to small clusters of buildings that mark the heart of this agricultural expanse. The history of Iowa is etched in the very soil, a legacy of hardy settlers who tamed this fertile ground. Dairy farming once dominated the local economy, the memory of creameries and milk cans a quiet hum beneath the present-day abundance of grain. You can still see the faint outlines of old stone fences, remnants of a time when clearing the land was a monumental task, and the echoes of immigrant voices, from German to Norwegian, can almost be heard on a quiet breeze. Today, the rhythm of Iowa is dictated by the seasons and the predictable cycles of planting and harvest, a life lived close to the earth, where neighborly support is as vital as the rain.
Live animated radar for Iowa 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 | Iowa, Iowa County, Wisconsin |
| Coordinates | 42.941674°N, 90.074677°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 53533, 53581 |
| Area Code | 715 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Iowa, Wisconsin Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Iowa, Wisconsin, 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 Iowa includes coordinates 42.941674°N, 90.074677°W, situated in Iowa County. ZIP code 53533, 53581. Telephone area code: 715. 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.
