Iowa Weather Report November 21st 2013 – Iowa Weather Network Archives

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TURNING COLDER: Another system will be making its way into the state today with a chance of some showers along with some wintry precipitation in the northwestern counties through Friday morning. The current thinking is that the southeastern half of the state looks to be getting all rain with this system with a quick switchover to a wintry mix or some snow as the precipitation ends early Friday morning. Any accumulating snow will be confined to the northwestern counties of the state where a few inches may fall there. Highs will be varied today with readings near 30 in the northwest to near 50 southeast. As the system moves away, the weekend ahead will be much colder with highs in the 20s to lower 30s and lows in the single digits and teens (colder where any snow does fall).

PREPARING THE TURKEY: Heading into next week, a clipper system will brush the state on Monday bringing a few more clouds and perhaps a snowflake or a sprinkle in the northeastern counties of the state. Right now it doesn’t look to amount to a whole lot at this point with readings staying mainly in the 30s to lower 40s for highs from northeast to southwest. On the big travel day on Wednesday, it looks mainly calm and tranquil here, but anyone heading to the southeast or the Mid-Atlantic could run into rainy weather there. Travelers through airports such as Charlotte, Atlanta and Miami may run into some travel delays there. By Wednesday night the airports around Washington DC and Baltimore may get delays as well. Note that if one hub airport experiences delays it will tend to domino to airports that won’t be having nasty weather Wednesday, so far anyone travelling next week, make sure to keep up with the National Forecast.

TURKEY AND LEFTOVERS: This model run does show some seasonal readings through the end of the month. The first week of December continues to look somewhat active with some snow chances and cold spells but nothing too significant at this time.