Rock Rapids, IA Weather Forecast
Lyon County, Iowa
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Rock Rapids, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
A dry overnight, clear
It is 39°, but the wind is taking it down to 35° on exposed skin. The sky is clear.
The wind turns to the southeast around 9 AM. 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 35°. Tomorrow reaches 50°, 8° cooler than today.
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
23–58°F across the weekThe week runs between 23° and 58°, with today 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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Rock Rapids, IA at a glance
Rock Rapids is home to about 2,706 people in Lyon County, across 4.2 square miles. It ranks 133rd by population of 139 places in Iowa with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Luverne, 16 miles away.
- County
- Lyon County
- Population
- 2,706 2023 est.
- Land area
- 4.2 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 643
- Forecast point
- 43.4267°N, 96.1664°W
How well can the network see Rock Rapids?
The nearest Doppler radar is KFSD (Sioux Falls, SD), to the WNW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,900 ft above Rock Rapids. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Rock Rapids show up clearly. Rock Rapids is closer to its radar than 70% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KLYV (Luverne Muni). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Rock Rapids
- Luverne, MN16 mi
- Rock Valley, IA17 mi
- Sibley, IA21 mi
- Canton, SD23 mi
- Sheldon, IA24 mi
- Brandon, SD24 mi
- Sioux Center, IA24 mi
- Harrisburg, SD27 mi
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