Month: October 2013

All of Iowa, Forecast

Iowa Weather Report October 9th 2013

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfFIumEx2X8&w=480&h=360] CONTINUED OCTOBER WARMING: Temperatures will continue to slowly rise as winds blow in from the south and southwest. Readings will be in the 70s today and tomorrow ahead of a storm system that will bring some chances of showers and isolated thunderstorms Friday into early Saturday. Skies up to that point will be mainly …

All of Iowa, Forecast

Iowa Weather Report October 8th 2013

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKBtf18HtKo&w=480&h=360] WARMING OCTOBER: Temperatures will continue to slowly moderate into the 70s to near 80s the rest of the week ahead of another system that could bring some rain activity to the state Friday into Saturday. It looks to be quite breezy as well with winds gusting over 25mph at times out of the south …

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Iowa Weather Report October 7th 2013

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcuM0CORsL0&w=480&h=360] OCTOBER WARMING: Temperatures will slowly rise through the work week with plenty of sunshine and winds coming back around to the south and southwest. Highs today will be in the 60s to near 70 with readings heading into the 70s for the rest of the week. This will be ahead of a storm system …

Gardening, Uncategorized

Fall Color Report #2

Regional fall color report Color is increasing across Minnesota and Wisconsin where some areas are reporting Moderate color. Further north, peak color is being observed across Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Fall color among Green Ash Species October 6th 2013 Here in Eastern Iowa, most areas are still reporting low color, however fall colors have been …

Forecast, Gardening, Uncategorized

October 4th severe thunderstorm report. Strong winds & Golf ball sized hail reported.

Storm front from early morning storms Friday October 4th A very strong fall storm system lead to the development of a very late severe weather outbreak across Iowa. A late warm, humid airmass with temperatures in the 80s and dewpoints in the 70s was the fuel for these severe storms. From the storms, several tornadoes …

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Iowa Weather Report October 6th 2013

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAZWiA8BGJY&w=480&h=360] IMPROVING WEATHER: The weather will gradually improve over the next few days with cloudy, cool and somewhat drizzly or showery weather today as the upper level support of the storm system that brought the tornadoes to northwestern Iowa Friday evening moves over the state today. It will be quite cool for this time of …

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Flash Flood Watch in Effect across Northeastern Iowa until 7am

…THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED OVERNIGHT… .A STRONG AND UNUSUALLY WET STORM SYSTEM FOR OCTOBER WILL IMPACT THE REGION THROUGH THE WEEKEND. OVERNIGHT…STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL RATES WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AREA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF OVER 3 INCHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA THIS EVENING IN TWO HOURS. …

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Preliminary Information on Oct 4, 2013 Tornadoes

A strong storm system produced several severe and tornadic storms from northeastern Nebraska into northwestern Iowa and extreme southeastern South Dakota on the late afternoon and evening of Friday October 4, 2013. Looking at the radar data and the reports that were received, it preliminarily looks like there were at least 6 separate tornadoes across …

Flooding

Flash Flood Warning (Allamakee, Howard and Winneshiek) until 4am Saturday

BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1002 PM CDT FRI OCT 4 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR… FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA… HOUSTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA… NORTHEASTERN HOWARD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA… NORTHERN WINNESHIEK COUNTY …

Severe Weather, Weather Alerts

TORNADO WARNING (Howard and Winneshiek) until 10:15pm

BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 950 PM CDT FRI OCT 4 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR… NORTHEASTERN HOWARD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA… NORTHWESTERN WINNESHIEK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA… EASTERN FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA… * UNTIL 1015 …