The Winter Storm Warning posted earlier has now been expanded to include the following counties, Dubuque, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk and Linn. The Winter Storm Warning will begin at 4pm and expire at 10am Sunday Morning. This is different from earlier as well. Sleet has developed this morning west of Cedar Rapids and is moving to …
Month: March 2009
Winter Storm Warning (3/28/09)
The National Weather Service in the Quad Cities has issued a Winter Storm Warning in effect starting at 1pm and will expire at 10am Sunday morning for the following counties in Iowa, Jackson, Cedar, Clinton, Muscatine, Scott, Washington, Louisa, Jefferson, Henry, Des Moines, Van Buren and Lee. The National Weather Service in Des Moines has …
Watches Issued
The National Weather Service in the Quad Cities has issued a Winter Storm Watch that begins at 1PM Saturday and expires at 7am Sunday morning for the following counties, Dubuque, Jones, Jackson, Cedar, Clinton, Muscatine, Scott, Washington, Louisa, Jefferson, Henry, Des Moines, Van Buren and Lee. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES CAN BE …
Winter’s Return
The next storm, slated to move into Iowa Friday night may bring significant amounts of rain and snow to the state. Right now the heaviest band of snow is expected to fall in the eastern and southeastern parts of the state. Amounts are too early to call at this time. The storm will exit the …
Cool weekend coming up
Weathermap for Friday Saturday and Sunday, I’ve been falling behind on the forecasts so here is a weekend forecast. We are in a cool pattern right now, and it looks like it Will stick around, highs only near freezing on Friday, lows falling well below freezing. We finally warm up Sunday withs highs near 40 …
Earth Hour This Saturday at 8:30PM
The light in our yard. There is a neat event coming up This Saturday at 8:30PM ( local Time ) that I would like to make a statement about. It’s called Earth Hour, Maybe you have heard of this before, how you participate in Earth Hour is you turn off lights, and other electric things …
The Next Big Storm
The next storm is set to move in for the weekend. Beginning on Friday, rain will overspread the state from the southwest, later Friday night into Saturday, the rain will mix with and may change to all snow over parts of the state. It’s too early to determine where the snow will fall or how …
System report, Strong Winds, Thunderstorms then Snow
Picture of heavy rain that fell, March 24th We had a huge weather system effect us the past 3 days, it started out as rain on Monday. Monday Night there was a few quick pop up strong thunderstorms in Central Polk County and northern St Croix county, they started off over by Deer Park, and …
River Flooding Occurring Again
The following rivers have a flood warning in effect.. The Des Moines River at Ottumwa The North River at Norwalk South Fork Chariton River at Promise City South Skunk River at Oskaloosa Thompson River at Davis City Des Moines River at Eddyville Chariton River at Chariton Flooding will continue on these rivers through the rest …
Survey Results from 3/23/2009 Tornadoes
5 Confirmed tornadoes occurred in Iowa on Monday. This is the results from the tornadoes in Iowa only. 1 EF2 4 EF0’s. IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA… A TORNADO TOUCHED ABOUT 2 MILES WEST OF MISSOURI VALLEY IOWA…WHERE IT CAUSED SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE TO A FARM HOUSE AND DESTROYED 7 OUTBUILDINGS AT ANOTHER FARMSTEAD 1/4 MILE TO …