Cedar Falls, IA Weather Forecast
Black Hawk County, Iowa
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Cedar Falls, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
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
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Cedar Falls, IA at a glance
Cedar Falls is home to about 40,737 people in Black Hawk County, across 29 square miles. It ranks 14th by population of 139 places in Iowa with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Waterloo, 6 miles away.
- County
- Black Hawk County
- Population
- 40,737 2023 est.
- Land area
- 29 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,384
- Forecast point
- 42.5191°N, 92.4540°W
How well can the network see Cedar Falls?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDMX (Des Moines, IA), to the SW. Its lowest scan passes about 7,500 ft above Cedar Falls. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Cedar Falls can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KALO (Waterloo Rgnl). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Cedar Falls
- Waterloo, IA6 mi
- Hudson, IA6 mi
- Evansdale, IA10 mi
- Waverly, IA14 mi
- Grundy Center, IA20 mi
- Jesup, IA20 mi
- Independence, IA28 mi
- Oelwein, IA29 mi
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