Iowa, LA Weather Forecast
Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Iowa, 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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Iowa, LA at a glance
Iowa is home to about 3,106 people in Calcasieu Parish, across 3.4 square miles. It ranks 87th by population of 105 places in Louisiana with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Welsh, 12 miles away.
- County
- Calcasieu Parish
- Population
- 3,106 2023 est.
- Land area
- 3.4 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 915
- Forecast point
- 30.2414°N, 93.0130°W
How well can the network see Iowa?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLCH (Lake Charles, LA), to the WSW. Its lowest scan passes about 780 ft above Iowa. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Iowa show up clearly. Iowa is closer to its radar than 91% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KCWF (Chenault Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Iowa
- Welsh, LA12 mi
- Lake Charles, LA12 mi
- Westlake, LA15 mi
- Sulphur, LA21 mi
- Jennings, LA21 mi
- Lake Arthur, LA23 mi
- DeQuincy, LA30 mi
- Vinton, LA34 mi
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