Today brought a variety of weather to Eastern Iowa. We started out the morning with moderate downpours and temperatures in the upper 30s then ended with moderate snow and very strong winds. Today’s weather was all from a small but very potent low pressure system that passed through Minnesota where it produced significant snows in Minnesota as well as Wisconsin. As the low moved to our north it first sent its warm front which brought us the rain and downpours around 6am, amounts were less then 0.25″ at most area, then its cold front quickly passed through and behind it very gust winds of 45 to 50+ MPH were seen after the fronts passed and these winds continued to gust up to 45MPH through out the day. All stations across the area reported over 44MPH, winds later in the afternoon wrap around snow showers developed on the back side of the low produced some rather moderate to even heavy snow shows in some areas. Some snow did blow as well, but the winds did subside some by that point. amounts were very light around half inch to a trace. We are not done with wind either, Thursday could be a repeat of todays wind gusts. High wind watches are already being put into place to our west.  Below is a list of highest wind gusts seen today.

Cedar Rapids Eastern Iowa Airport 53MPH
 Vinton 52MPH
Independence 49MPH
 Iowa City 46MPH
 Monticello 47MPH
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Airport 44MPH