Emmetsburg, IA Weather Forecast
Palo Alto County, Iowa
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Emmetsburg, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
A dry morning, partly cloudy
It is 20°, but the wind is taking it down to 14° on exposed skin. The sky is partly cloudy.
Nothing in the next day and a half is wet enough to move plans for.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Dry and warming through tomorrow
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 30°. Tomorrow reaches 56°, 6° warmer than today. It also gets muggier, so tomorrow will feel warmer than the number on its own suggests.
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
28–57°F across the weekThe week runs between 28° and 57°, with Wednesday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Saturday is the wettest day, peaking near 80%. 5 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Emmetsburg, IA at a glance
Emmetsburg is home to about 3,623 people in Palo Alto County, across 3.8 square miles. It ranks 109th by population of 139 places in Iowa with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Estherville, 21 miles away.
- County
- Palo Alto County
- Population
- 3,623 2023 est.
- Land area
- 3.8 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 955
- Forecast point
- 43.1148°N, 94.6796°W
How well can the network see Emmetsburg?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDMX (Des Moines, IA), to the SSE. Its lowest scan passes about 10,700 ft above Emmetsburg. At that range the beam overshoots the base of a storm. If a warning for Emmetsburg looks unsupported on radar, trust the warning.
The closest weather station is KEST (Estherville Muni). Far enough that current conditions for Emmetsburg are a reading from somewhere else.
Forecasts near Emmetsburg
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- Jackson, MN39 mi
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