Most of the southern part of the state has risen above the freezing mark this afternoon and the precipitation that is currently falling in those areas has switched over to all rain. To the north where readings are still at or below freezing, sleet, snow and freezing rain are still possible, with accumulations of another …
Month: January 2011
Snow Sleet Ice Today
Wintery precipitation will be the rule on this Martin Luther King Jr Day, with Sleet, Snow and Freezing Rain moving through the state. The best chances for the ice will be south of Interstate 80 where a tenth of an inch of ice could accumulate, with isolated heavier amounts (a freezing rain advisory may be …
NW Iowa Ice
A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect across the northwestern counties of the state through the overnight hours of Monday morning. This is in regards to some sleet, snow and freezing rain that is currently falling in the area. Although amounts will remain light, generally under a tenth of an inch. Travel will and has …
Advisories Issued For Tonight
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory which goes into effect at Midnight tonight and will be in effect until 6pm Monday evening for the following counties, Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Grundy, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldy, Jasper, Kossuth, Marshall, Polk, Poweshiek, Story, Tama, Webster, …
One last Clipper with minor accumulations before arctic air races south.
Regional View. Another Clipper System will pass through the Upper Midwest Monday with minor accumulations across most states. Where lake enhanced snow could develop, significant accumulations will be possible in the U.P of Michigan. More importantly, the first of a long lasting arctic wave will begin to push down towards the Upper Midwest Tuesday. Very …
New Link-Local area live chat room. A good place for weather enthusiasts!
I would like to make a quick shout out to a very good chat room where local weather enthusiasts can chat and talk about weather. One of the best things about this room it is all local and most forecast attention is right in the area. You can expect to find good natured people that …
Snow Accumulations Sun Night into Monday
Here is the latest snowfall forecast from the NAM Model run at 0z (6pm CT). It has forecasted a lot more snow for the northeastern sections of the state then will probably fall. The image shown above is the snowfall forecast based on the 10:1 ratio (1″ of precipitation (rain) equalling 10″ of snow) which …
Fridays snowfall report. Some spots ended out with up to 5″
Moderate snow January 14th A strong clipper system effected the area yesterday with heavy snowfall which fell in a fairly short time! the first flakes started to fly at my location around 2pm or so, and it started to become moderate by around 3pm. By evening I had a short term forecast warning for heavy …
Winter Precip Today
Radar fifteen minutes ago showed a large swath of radar returns across the western and central sections of the state. While most of this isn’t reaching the ground, some of it is, and in the form of snow, sleet and even some freezing rain. Temperatures are in the upper teens and lower 20s currently over …
Active Weekend. System looks to drop minor accumulations Friday/Saturday. Then Cold air to follow Sunday.
Regional View Note: The regional view map has been change, I realised after the fact that Mondays system had the potential to bring Blizzard conditions to southern Minnesota, not Fridays, It is difficult to keep up with all these systems. An extremely active pattern has set up, active enough that the Upper Midwest is getting …