Iowa Weather Report June 5th 2014 – Iowa Weather Network Archives

COMFY TEMPS: The next several days will see readings mainly in the 70s to lower 80s across the state. Today there will be partly to mostly sunny skies around. There is an isolated chance of a shower or storm in the far northern and northwestern counties. These may drift farther into the state during the evening and overnight hours but shouldn’t amount to a whole lot. Friday will be a repeat of today with readings a few degrees warmer but still plenty of sunshine around with a chance of some isolated showers and storms in the northern and northwestern counties of the state once more.

THE WEEKEND: Saturday will be fairly wet with showers and thunderstorms likely across the state. Severe weather doesn’t look likely at this point as the best parameters will be to our south, however some decent rainfalls could be possible with a half to one inch possible mainly targeting the southern half of the state. In areas that saw the heavy rainfalls Tuesday night, this could lead to more localized flooding and prolonged river flooding as well. This rain will move out early on Sunday with some clearing by later in the day. Readings will still be in the 70s both Saturday and Sunday.

UP UNTIL MID-WEEK: Monday and Tuesday will see plenty of sunshine once again with an isolated chance of a shower and or storm in the afternoon. Highs Monday and Tuesday will be in the 70s across the state. The chances of precipitation will be 30 percent or less so many areas may get rain on one of the days or may not even get wet either day. More organized rain moves in late Tuesday night into Wednesday mainly over the western counties of the state. Some partly sunny skies will remain over the east. Readings will be in the 70s to near 80.

INTO THE BEYOND: A ridge looks to set up to our southwest according to this GFS Model Run which would put us in a possible ring of fire pattern which would mean complexes of showers and thunderstorms would develop and round the top of the ridge and slide to the southeast. It’s too early to determine on any day when one of these could move through with a disturbance of some kind. Readings at the beginning of the extended period look to be near seasonal levels. Toward the end of the period, the GFS shows the temperatures warming slightly and the precipitation chances dropping off as the ridge strengthens the gets a little closer however it still doesn’t look like a heat wave at this point and we’ve seen little if any trends during this period the last week or so. It won’t be long before the first real heat wave of summer comes and as of now we don’t see one as yet, but things this far out are likely to change.