Oelwein, IA Weather Forecast
Fayette County, Iowa
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Oelwein, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
A dry evening, mostly sunny
It is 42°, but the wind is taking it down to 35° on exposed skin. The sky is mostly sunny.
Pressure is easing down, 0.03 inHg over the last hour. 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
Quiet through the next day and a half
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 33°. Tomorrow tops out near 42°. The humidity goes with it: tomorrow is the more comfortable half of this window, and the safer one for anything outdoors.
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
22–55°F across the weekThe week runs between 22° and 48°, with Tuesday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Every day in the outlook stays dry.
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Oelwein, IA at a glance
Oelwein is home to about 5,791 people in Fayette County, across 4.8 square miles. It ranks 70th by population of 139 places in Iowa with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Independence, 14 miles away.
- County
- Fayette County
- Population
- 5,791 2023 est.
- Land area
- 4.8 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,203
- Forecast point
- 42.6716°N, 91.9128°W
How well can the network see Oelwein?
The nearest Doppler radar is KARX (La Crosse, WI), to the NNE. Its lowest scan passes about 7,900 ft above Oelwein. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Oelwein can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KOLZ (Oelwein Muni). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Oelwein
- Independence, IA14 mi
- Jesup, IA16 mi
- Evansdale, IA23 mi
- Waterloo, IA26 mi
- Manchester, IA27 mi
- Waverly, IA28 mi
- Cedar Falls, IA29 mi
- Hudson, IA32 mi
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