Iowa Weather Report August 22nd 2013 – Iowa Weather Network Archives

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MORE DRY WEATHER: The chances of showers and storms will dwindle today as the front moves through. Thereafter it looks dry again for another week or so with little if any chance of seeing rainfall through the end of the month. It will be cooler today and Friday with highs back into the lower and middle 80s but this will quickly rise back to near 90 or higher by the weekend into early next week. This will certainly not help any crops with this continued dry spell we’re currently seeing right now.

EXTENDING DRY TIME: The ridge looks to continue through the end of the month although a break may occur around that time which could bring us our next chance of showers and storms in about 9-10 days (that sounds terrible), but the best news, (and it’s not good), is that the ridge reforms and returns only after two days if the GFS is to be believed. Remember though that yesterday it showed a trough with a northwesterly flow over us at the end of the period, so there’s no real confidence at this time with the extended period, but given what we’ve seen over the last month, a ridge and continued dry weather may be the best guess at this point as we see no weather pattern change for the foreseeable future.