Month: March 2014

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Thunderstorms with Small Hail in Southeast Iowa

A band of rain with some thunderstorms extended from near Keosauqua in southeast Iowa to just north of Galesburg, Illinois to near Princeton, Illinois. Some of the stronger storms are capable of producing pea size hail and brief heavy downpours. The rain and isolated thunderstorms are expected to expand into northeast Missouri and the rest …

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It’s Only March, and there’s a lot of winter left – Winter Weather Advisories for SE Iowa overnight

The National Weather Service has issued Winter Weather Advisories for Appanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Lee, and Wayne counties from 10:00 PM tonight through tomorrow morning. A strong area of low pressure is expected to track south of the state tonight bringing light to moderate snowfall across south central and southeastern Iowa overnight. The system should …

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Afternoon Update on Flood Warnings across eastern Iowa

English River at Kalona: Until this evening. At 1:00 PM Tuesday, the stage was 13.9′, and rising. Flood stage is 14′. No flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast. Ice action may cause fluctuations of a foot or more from the expected stage. Forecast: Rise above flood stage today,  and continue rising to 14.8′ …

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1st 70.F of the season at Des Moines, 60s elsewhere.

Front yard after doing some Spring prep work March 10th 2014 Today was just an outstanding beautiful day across the area. Sunshine was plentiful and temperatures were warm enough that people were wearing shorts. The smell of spring was in the air as well as the ground started to thaw giving us that wet soil …

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Update on Flood Warnings for the Skunk River at Augusta and the Iowa River at Marengo

Skunk River at Augusta (AGSI4): Until 1:00 AM Wednesday At 8:30pm Monday, the stage was 14.6′ and rising. Flood stage is 15.0′. No flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast. Forecast: Rise to flood stage Tuesday morning, fall back below the flood stage Tuesday afternoon. Ice action may cause fluctuations of a foot or so …

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March 8th-23rd Birthday, Past accomplishments, Blog 6 year anniversary & new things to come!

Yesterday March 8th was my and my brothers (triplets) 23rd birthday and when I first stared my blog I used to post a little about myself every year, but I have not done that in awhile. I’d like to take this time to talk about myself and things that have accomplished that I didn’t have …