The National Weather Service has issued a Frost Advisory from 1am Saturday until 8 or 9am for the following counties, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cerro Gordo, Crawford, Emmet, Franklin, Greene, Grundy, Guthrie, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldt, Kossuth, Marshall, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Sac, Story, Tama, Webster, Winnebago, Worth, Wright, Buchanan, Delaware, …
Month: September 2011
September 29th sigificant wind event-widespread 45-50MPH winds reported! Minor damage reported as well.
Image from Twin Cities NWS A strong low pressure system produced widespread 45 to 50MPH winds which caused minor tree damage in what ended out to be a pretty significant wind event. A strong, tight low pressure over Michigan brought these very strong winds to much of the Upper Midwest. The low in this image …
Iowa Forecast Video 9/30/2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8VNFZhTxhM?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] DRY CONDITIONS: We’ll be experiencing some cooler and drier conditions in the state over the upcoming weekend and into the first part of next week. It will be cool Saturday morning with some light frost possible across the northeastern counties where winds will be light and temperatures will drop into the lower and …
Wind Gusts Today
Here are a few wind gust reports from across the state today. MASON CITY ….. 59 MPH FOREST CITY …. 58 MPH MESKWAKI ……. 58 MPH (School net site) ESTHERVILLE …. 55 MPH CEDAR RAPIDS … 54 MPH MARSHALLTOWN … 54 MPH OTTUMWA …….. 54 MPH IOWA CITY …… 53 MPH WATERLOO ……. 53 MPH …
Iowa Forecast Video 9/29/2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFVvtsmu5h4?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] WINDY WEATHER: A cold front will be moving through the state early today and with it comes a few clouds but mainly very windy conditions. A Wind Advisory has been issued for the northeastern half of the state where winds could gust as high as 40-50mph. DRY: That will be the main word …
Strong Winds Thursday
The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory for Thursday morning through the evening across the northeastern half of the state (Advisory begins in the morning across the west and early afternoon across the east). The counties included are, Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, …
Wide Ranging Readings
You can tell across the region today where the clouds are still sticking around from the pesky upper level low that is moving off to the east across the Great Lake States. Temperatures are being held down into the 60s across the eastern counties, while out west readings have soared well into the 80s under …
Iowa Forecast Video 9/28/2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iljWdyfdWHI?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] DRY WEATHER AHEAD: No more talk about the Upper Level low as it will be far enough to the east that it won’t be effecting the weather in the state today and anymore. What will be left in its wake is a long stretch of dry weather with seasonal temps through Thursday before …
Strong cold front pasing through, Cooler sunny with strong winds possibly gusting to 45MPH Thursday, Cool but sunny weekend. Updated #1
Regional Weather View. Attention in the Upper Midwest is turned to a strong low pressure system and cold front which will cause strong winds to blow through Thursday. Winds could gust to 50MPH in parts of Northeast Iowa, Eastern Minnesota, Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, behind the front that will also bring in much cooler air …
Changes to Climate Information in Eastern Iowa
I found this on the NWS Quad Cities site today, EFFECTIVE SATURDAY…OCTOBER 1 2011…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES WILL NO LONGER REPORT SNOWFALL AND SNOW DEPTH DATA IN THE DAILY…MONTHLY…SEASONAL…OR ANNUAL CLIMATE REPORTS FOR THE AUTOMATED SURFACE OBSERVATION SYSTEMS /ASOS/ LOCATED AT THE FOLLOWING AIRPORTS… BURLINGTON…IA CEDAR RAPIDS…IA AND IOWA CITY…IA. SOME OF THE …