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    How cloudy is Waterloo?

    Waterloo right now

    37°FClear skies

    • Today41°F / 28°FClear skies
    • Tomorrow47°F / 26°FClear skies
    • Monday50°F / 30°FClear skies
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    Live from OpenWeatherMap. Alerts from the National Weather Service.

    In a typical year, the sky over Waterloo is mostly cloudy or overcast about 36% of the time, and clear or nearly clear about 59%.

    December is the cloudiest month, mostly cloudy about 47% of the time, and July the least cloudy, at about 22%. Across winter, December to February, it’s mostly cloudy about 46% of the time. That makes it the 35th least cloudy sky of the 116 US cities we track.

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    The forecast for the next 48 hours has the sky mostly cloudy about 6% of the time.

    Waterloo is mostly cloudy about 47% of the time in December, then clears to about 22% in July, which is a very Iowa way to run a sky.

    Live 48-hour forecast from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Alerts from the National Weather Service.

    The sky at a glance

    Mostly cloudy or overcast, all year36%
    Clear or nearly clear, all year59%
    Mostly cloudy, December to February46%
    Cloudiest monthDecember, 47%
    Least cloudy monthJuly, 22%

    Shares of hours across a typical year. Mostly cloudy means at least five eighths of the sky covered; clear or nearly clear means two eighths or less.

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    Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly, 1991 to 2020, station USW00094910. Airport sensors see cloud up to about 12,000 feet, so thin high cloud isn’t counted.