Spencer, IA Weather Forecast
Clay County, Iowa
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The next few hours
A dry overnight, clear
It is 35°, but the wind is taking it down to 30° on exposed skin. The sky is clear.
The wind backs into the south around 11 AM, which is the turn that usually comes ahead of the change rather than after it. 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°, 9° 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
23–59°F across the weekThe week runs between 23° and 59°, 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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Spencer, IA at a glance
Spencer is home to about 11,451 people in Clay County, across 11 square miles. It ranks 35th by population of 139 places in Iowa with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Milford, 13 miles away.
- County
- Clay County
- Population
- 11,451 2023 est.
- Land area
- 11 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,046
- Forecast point
- 43.1470°N, 95.1527°W
How well can the network see Spencer?
The nearest Doppler radar is KFSD (Sioux Falls, SD), to the WNW. Its lowest scan passes about 7,500 ft above Spencer. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Spencer can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KSPW (Spencer Muni). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Spencer
- Milford, IA13 mi
- Spirit Lake, IA19 mi
- Estherville, IA24 mi
- Emmetsburg, IA24 mi
- Jackson, MN34 mi
- Cherokee, IA34 mi
- Sibley, IA35 mi
- Sheldon, IA35 mi
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