Image from SPC A Slight Risk Has been issued by the SPC for parts of the Upper Midwest in Southern Minnesota and Wisconsin as well as Northern Iowa. A stationary front located near the Minnesota Iowa boarder will be the focus for thunderstorm developing late today into the overnight hours of tonight. With unstable air …
Month: July 2012
Iowa Forecast Video 7/23/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5g4MTB6L6U&w=480&h=360] HEAT AND STORMS: There is going to be a lot of heat and very little chance of showers and thunderstorms unless you’re in the northern counties where the chances will be greater, but still very isolated. 90s and triple digits will be the norm through at least Wednesday when a cold front will …
Iowa Forecast Video 7/22/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhgaEIecLtg&w=480&h=360] HOT WITH ISOLATED RAIN: There’s no real changes over the last few days over what is going to be taking place this week. Temperatures will be hot and there’s slight chances of some isolated showers and thunderstorms through Wednesday at least. Excessive Heat Warnings and Heat Advisories remain in effect in the western …
Iowa Forecast Video 7/21/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQzeso8anT8&w=480&h=360] EXCESSIVE HEAT: Several days of very hot weather in store for the state and region. Excessive heat warnings are in effect beginning this weekend and lasting well into next week for a large portion of the state. Several more counties may be included in the warning or in a heat advisory later this …
Extreme Heat and Burn Bans Update
…Burn Ban in effect for Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll (22nd at 8AM), Cass, Cedar, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Clayton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd (23rd at 8AM), Franklin, Fremont, Greene, Hardin, Henry, Howard, Humboldt, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Lee, Linn, Lyon, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall, Mills, Montgomery, Muscatine, Page, …
2012 Drought: Burn Bans Expanding as of July 20th
Counties are beginning to mount with burn bans across the state. Here are the current list of counties as of Friday morning, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Calhoun, Cedar, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Clayton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Fremont, Greene, Hardin, Henry, Howard, Humboldt, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Lee, …
Iowa Forecast Video 7/20/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZM6Mo1KX70&w=480&h=360] HEAT BUILDING: It’s becoming a broken record of continuously repeating the same forecast over and over again. If it was for rain, it would be a welcome forecast, but unfortunately it’s for more heat and humidity through at least mid-week next week if not longer. Temperatures will run back up into the 90s …
July 18th Severe Storms. High winds and hail impacting west and wouth parts of the area,
Severe storms with high winds and large hail impacted parts of the area Wednesday July 18th. The areas most impacted were Dodge, Mower and Fillmore counties. The cause of the storms was an eastward moving boundary into a very warm unstable airmass. A cell that developed in Central Dodge County near Dodge Center quickly became …
Drought Update: All of Eastern Iowa in Severe Drought
Iowa Forecast Video 7/19/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81jZSksIW5A&w=480&h=360] HEAT AND MORE HEAT: More of the warm weather will continue for at least another week with temperatures well into the 90s and perhaps a few more triple digit readings as well. Muscatine yesterday hit 106, while several other locations in southern Iowa also made it above 100. The northern counties were spared …