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Boone, IA Weather Forecast

Boone County, Iowa

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Conditions now · Thu, 5:55 AM CDT
50°FDewpoint 50°FMostly sunny

Measured at KBNW · Boone Muni, IA · airport · 1.2 mi away · 8 minutes ago

Boone, IA at Thu, 5:55 AM CDT: 50°F and mostly sunny, measured at KBNW (Boone Muni, IA) 1.2 mi away, 8 minutes ago. Rest of today: high 63°F, low 48°F, 1% chance of rain. No active National Weather Service alerts for this location.

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What is happeningWritten from the numbers on this page

Dry for the moment, with rain moving in this morning

It is 51° with a dew point of 47°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is mostly sunny.

The wind turns to the east-northeast around 7 PM. The first rain arrives between 6 AM and 7 AM, with the best chance of it around 9 AM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 6 AM, and it closes quickly after that.

Hour by hour
6 AMMostly sunny51°F0%
7 AMMostly sunny49°F0%
8 AMPartly cloudy48°F0%
9 AMMostly sunny50°F0%
10 AMClear54°F0%
11 AMClear58°F0%
12 PMClear60°F0%
1 PMClear61°F0%
2 PMClear62°F0%
3 PMClear63°F0%
4 PMClear63°F0%
5 PMClear62°F0%

Next 36 hours

Wet through the window, then cooler and clearing

The wet part of the window runs from about 6 AM to 6 PM, 12 hours of it, with the highest chance near 9 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.13 in.

It tapers off after 6 PM. Pressure rises 0.12 inHg behind it, which is the drier air arriving. The overnight low settles near 47°. Tomorrow reaches 55°, 8° cooler than today.

Seven-day outlook

40–67°F across the week
TodayOct 29Clear · 1% chance of rain48°F / 63°F
FriOct 30Scattered rain · 53% chance of rain46°F / 55°F
SatOct 31Rain likely · 69% chance of rain51°F / 64°F
SunNov 1Mostly cloudy · 5% chance of rain54°F / 67°F
MonNov 2Rain likely · 77% chance of rain56°F / 65°F
TueNov 3Rain likely · 73% chance of rain54°F / 63°F
WedNov 4Scattered rain · 40% chance of rain50°F / 60°F
ThuNov 5Mostly cloudy · 20% chance of rain44°F / 56°F
FriNov 6Partly cloudy · 12% chance of rain42°F / 54°F
SatNov 7Partly cloudy · 11% chance of rain40°F / 55°F
SunNov 8Partly cloudy · 11% chance of rain42°F / 57°F

The week runs between 46° and 67°, with Sunday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Monday is the wettest day, peaking near 77%.

Forecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.

The written summaries on this page are generated from the forecast data above, not by a meteorologist. Each sentence is a reading of the same numbers you can see, and no forecaster has reviewed them.

About the Boone forecast

Boone sits at 42.0493°N, 93.8725°W in Boone County, Iowa. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.

County
Boone County
Coordinates
42.0493°N, 93.8725°W
Population
12,416 · 2023 estimate
Land area
9.141 sq mi

Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Boone, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.

How well can the network see Boone?

The nearest Doppler radar is KDMX (Des Moines, IA), 23 miles to the SSE. A WSR-88D's lowest routine scan sits half a degree above horizontal, and the earth curves away beneath it, so by the time that beam reaches Boone its center is about 1,300 ft above ground. That is about as close as radar coverage gets in the United States: the lowest scan is still near the ground when it reaches Boone, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Boone is closer to its radar than 80% of US cities.

The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KBNW · Boone Muni on the ASOS/AWOS network, 1.2 miles away. Close enough that its readings are, for practical purposes, the conditions in town.

Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the Iowa observing network as of this build.

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