Month: January 2012

Gardening, Uncategorized

Winter finally arrives to southeastern Minnesota. It arrived with cold temps, slick roads, gusty winds, and 2 to as much as 5″ of snow!

Winter scene from a Rochester park. January 12th 2012 As odd as this is to say, winter has finally arrive to Southeastern Minnesota in the sense that this is the first time we’ve had a snowpack lasting more then one day since well before Christmas! two things were really noticed today, and that’s the snow …

Winter Weather

Winter Storm Warning For Eastern Iowa

The Winter Weather Advisory has been upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning for Delaware, Dubuque, Linn, Jones, Cedar, Clinton, Jackson and Scott Counties. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR SNOW…WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. TIMING…SNOW…HEAVY …

All of Iowa, Winter Weather

Iowa Forecast Video 1/12/2012

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo7Fm6LfNHg?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] SNOW ACROSS THE EAST: Accumulating snow will continue throughout the day across the eastern counties of the state. A Winter Weather Advisory remains in effect for the area through the evening hours. Snowfall amounts could top 6″ in some areas depending on where the heavy snow band sets up. A broad brush 2-5″ …

Winter Weather

Winter Weather For Eastern Iowa

The National Weather Service in the Quad Cities has issued a Winter Weather Advisory effective at 9pm this evening and lasting until Midnight Friday morning for the following counties, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Lee, Linn, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott, Van Buren and Washington. TIMING…SNOW IS …

Gardening, Uncategorized

Sigificant cooldown with snow and wind tonight and Thursday, Some could be breifly heavy with arctic air settles in Thursday. Updated X1

Regional weather view. A  significant change is in store for the Upper Midwest. It will go from a very mild pattern to way more winter-like for the middle part of this week. A storm system will impact the region Wednesday and bring snow, and it has the chance to bring significant snowfall to areas shaded …

All of Iowa, Winter Weather

Iowa Forecast Video 1/11/2012

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAuhG0Q95Kw?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] SNOW!: There looks to be some accumulating snow with this system later today into Thursday morning especially across the far eastern and northeastern counties of the state. The NAM and GFS are showing totals of 2-4″ possible with this system across the Tri-State area and HPC is also saying there’s a moderate to …