Month: October 2010

Severe Weather

TORNADO Watch #705 until 10pm

The Storm Prediction Center has issued a TORNADO Watch effective until 10pm for the following counties, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Van Buren, Washington, Adams, Appanosse, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Monroe, Ringgold, Taylor, Union, Wapello, Warren and Wayne. Along with the threat of tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds will also be threats …

Gardening, Uncategorized

Chilly Thursday, then warming up with higher rainfall chances by Saturday. Thanksgiving Cactus getting buds! Pictures included.

Regional weather view, with location of Low and fronts for Saturday. The end of the week will end on a dry and quite chilly note for the Upper Midwest. Hard frosts are possible through all of Northern and Central Minnesota,Northern Wisconsin and Michigan. A system will being to approach Friday, but skies will be sunny …

All of Iowa

Rainy Weekend

The abnormally dry streak across the state will likely end this weekend with a good chance of showers and isolated thunderstorms this weekend. Some rainfall could be heavy in areas that recieve a thunderstorm, otherwise rainfall will remain generally under a half inch or so. This would great news given the dry streak we’ve been …

Gardening, Uncategorized

Trees lost their leaves much earlier then last year. Compare photos

Compared photo of the Nearly leafless Front yard Oct 16th 2010 Most trees across the local area are already completely bare, many people have noticed how fast they turned and dropped. The fall color process went very fast. We went from Low color to peak in less then 2 weeks time! This was one of …