Iowa Weather Report August 23rd 2013 – Iowa Weather Network Archives

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LOTS OF DRYNESS: Outside of a chance of showers and thunderstorms late tonight into Saturday (where it may be hit and miss like yesterday morning’s rainfall), it will be mainly dry and getting much warmer across the state into next week. The system will bring some rainfall late tonight into Saturday across the state but amounts look rather sparse with WPC showing little if any rainfall given the possible scattered to isolated nature of the possible storms. Thereafter the ridge sets up over the area, keeping the state a desert, the temperatures feeling more like July and no let up in sight through the end of next week. This will certainly worsen the drought that is becoming more and more pronounced across the state over the last few weeks.

GOTTA HAVE MORE DRY WEATHER: Who wants crunchy grass? How about hot schools with no AC? No? Well it looks to continue this coming week and perhaps all the way to the end of the month before we see any sort of relief. The GFS has been adamant about the ridge breaking down around the 1st of September, but yesterday it showed the ridge returning to full force in two weeks time. This run shows what we saw two days ago, a trough and a northwesterly flow coming out of the Pacific Northwest. This is a low confidence forecast at this time, but any relief that may come around the 1st of September could be the next chance of rain for everyone after the system late tonight into Saturday. Hope for some rain.