Clark Park in Hiawatha during a warm sunny January 12th day.

Today was a beautiful Mid January day with highs that were in the 40s and neared 50.F degrees in some places in Eastern Iowa. The cause of the warmth was a thanks you a powerful warm front which moved through this morning on those gusty south winds that gusted over 30MPH at times around 11am Sunday, which oddly enough was nearly calm by the late afternoon hours. Afternoon highs soared into the 40s across the area with the only expecting being areas of the North such as Independence which did not hit 40 today. The snowcover area wide did take a hit and in fact some areas of the south and west have very little snow on the ground left. This is the 4th or 5th time since we had our 1st sticking snow that the snowcover has mostly melted here in the Cedar Rapids area, but this is by far the least amount of snow we’ve had on the ground since Mid December. Some other numbers across the state include 51.F at Des Moines and 55.F at Keokuk. Below is a list of high temperatures reached today and morning wind gusts across Eastern Iowa

Williamsburg 47.F
Kalona 47.F
 Downtown Cedar Rapids 46.F
Marion 45.F
Iowa City 44.F 30MPH
Hiawatha 44.F
 Mount Vernon 43.F
Cedar Rapids-Eastern Iowa Airport 42.F 35MPH
Vinton 41.F 30MPH
 Monticello 41.F 28MPH
 Central City 41.F
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Airport 40.F 35MPH
Manchester 40.F
Independence 37.F