Red Oak, IA Weather Forecast
Montgomery County, Iowa
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The next few hours
A dry evening, partly cloudy
It is 44°, but the wind is taking it down to 40° on exposed skin. The sky is partly cloudy.
The barometer has climbed 0.06 inHg in the last hour, which is the sign of drier air moving in behind whatever has just gone through. 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 34°. Tomorrow tops out near 45°.
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
22–58°F across the weekThe week runs between 22° and 50°, 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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Red Oak, IA at a glance
Red Oak is home to about 5,461 people in Montgomery County, across 3.9 square miles. It ranks 75th by population of 139 places in Iowa with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Shenandoah, 19 miles away.
- County
- Montgomery County
- Population
- 5,461 2023 est.
- Land area
- 3.9 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,391
- Forecast point
- 41.0141°N, 95.2244°W
How well can the network see Red Oak?
The nearest Doppler radar is KOAX (Omaha, NE), to the WNW. Its lowest scan passes about 4,900 ft above Red Oak. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Red Oak can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KRDK (Red Oak Muni). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Red Oak
- Shenandoah, IA19 mi
- Clarinda, IA22 mi
- Glenwood, IA27 mi
- Atlantic, IA28 mi
- Plattsmouth, NE35 mi
- Council Bluffs, IA36 mi
- Bellevue, NE37 mi
- Nebraska City, NE41 mi
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