SOME RAIN CHANCES NEXT TWO DAYS: A frontal system will move into the state today and through the first half of Monday bringing with it a chance of some showers and thunderstorms. Most of the day will be dry in the southeastern third of the state with readings there in the 70s while the rest …
Month: April 2014
Iowa Weather Report April 19th 2014
EASTER WEEKEND: A warm weekend across the state with some chances of showers and thunderstorms becoming more numerous as we head into Easter Sunday. Today we will see plenty of sunshine once again with readings in the 60s and 70s. There could be an isolated thunderstorm in the northwestern counties in the late afternoon hours …
POLYGON Issuance #7 Fishing Through Minnesota Meteorology
In the 8th Issuance of POLYGON (actually the 7th), Randy Brock, the chief meteorologist from KTTC in Rochester MN joined the group. He is a native Minnesotan. He went to school at Metropolitan State College in Denver and then got his first job in the Texas Panhandle in Amarillo TX. He then came home to …
Iowa Weather Report April 18th 2014
INTO EASTER WEEKEND: Warmer weather will be in store heading into the holiday weekend, but some showers and thunderstorms are in the forecast especially for Easter as a new storm system moves into the state at that time. Today we will see plenty of sunshine with readings in the 50s and 60s across the state. …
Sincere Apology for Technical Issues Tonight
We would like to sincerely apologize for the excessive blog posts sent to Facebook, Twitter, and your inbox’s this evening. We had an unexpected malfunction in a plugin that caused posts that we imported (and backdated by a couple years) to be sent out without authorization. We have fixed this and will do everything we …
Iowa Weather Report April 17th 2014
NO VIDEO TODAY THE EASTER BUNNY GONNA BE WET: A cold front will have moved through the state early today bringing the temperatures back down into the 40s and lower to middle 50s across the state. There will be some clouds around with some clearing by the afternoon hours from west to east. A warm …
Iowa Weather Report April 16th 2014
SOMEWHAT ACTIVE: The weather pattern has some rain and perhaps a bit of snow mixed in over the next couple of days across the state. A storm system will move into the state later today bringing with it a chance of some rain showers mainly across the northern counties of the state. The rest of …
Iowa Weather Report April 15th 2014
TAXING WEEK AHEAD: Another cold day across the state today with readings in the 40s and lower to middle 50s. There will be plenty of sunshine to go around but it won’t help the temperatures much. Winds turn south to southwesterly on Wednesday ahead of a disturbance that will be riding along a warm front …
Lone Tree Tornado Rated EF0
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 210 PM CDT MON APR 14 2014 …NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 04/13/14 TORNADO EVENT… .OVERVIEW…A SEMI-ISOLATED STORM ON THE SOUTHERN END OF A LARGER THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX PRODUCED A BRIEF TORNADO. .LONE TREE TORNADO… RATING: EF-0 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 65 MPH PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 1 MILE …
Rainfall Records April 13th
RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 133 AM CDT MON APR 14 2014 …RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM RAINFALL SET AT DES MOINES… A RECORD RAINFALL OF 1.69 INCHES WAS SET AT DES MOINES YESTERDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 0.80 INCHES SET IN 1892. RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES …