After a fast start to the fall color season, fall color progression has really slowed this week because of a spell of summer-like temperatures where we had several days in the low to mid 80s. This caused the trees that have turned to start dropping leaves quite fast, but delayed others from really turning. Ash …
Month: September 2014
Iowa Weather Report September 30th 2014
RAINY PERIOD: There will be a chance of showers and a few thunderstorms from time to time from now through the day on Thursday across the state. The eastern counties may still see some sunshine for part of the day today but clouds will be on the increase with the threat of precipitation elsewhere. Highs …
Iowa Weather Report September 29th 2014
NO VIDEO TODAY THE WEEK AHEAD: The weather pattern will be changing as we head into the middle and end of the week and the weekend, but today will see more of what we saw this past weekend, with plenty of sunshine and highs in the upper 70s through the middle 80s across the state. …
Iowa Weather Report September 28th 2014
CONTINUED WARM: Today and Monday will still be warm across the state with readings at least 10 degrees above seasonal levels for the end of September. Highs will be in the upper 70s to middle 80s with mainly sunny skies around. Tuesday will bring some increase in clouds as a storm will be approaching from …
Iowa Weather Report September 27th 2014
PLEASANTLY WARM: Partly to mostly sunny skies will continue across the state today through at least Monday with a noticeable increase in the cloudiness on Tuesday ahead of the next system approaching from the west. There is a slight chance of a shower or storm today mainly in the central counties during the afternoon but …
Iowa Weather Report September 25th 2014
QUIET FOR SOMETIME: There will be no big changes in the coming days across the state with mainly sunny skies and highs in the 70s and lower 80s across the state through at least Monday. Today there could be a few more clouds with the disturbance that brought the light rain to parts of the …
Iowa Weather Report September 23rd 2014
FALLING INTO AUTUMN: The next few days will be mainly quiet across the state, however a disturbance today into the first half of Wednesday could bring some showers and storms across the western half of the state, mainly along and west of Interstate 35. In the eastern counties, skies should remain mostly sunny today with …
Fall Color Report #1
Fall color is quickly starting across Iowa and color has become quite abundant in earlier changing trees. This change literally seemed to occur just in the past couple of days here in the Des Moines area. Tree showing color are strictly pretty much the ash species. They are turning colors of golden yellow in many …
Iowa Weather Report September 22nd 2014
MAINLY DRY: The week ahead still looks mainly dry across the state. The exception will be a disturbance that could bring some showers and isolated thunderstorms across the western and central counties of the state Tuesday into the first half of Wednesday. The models don’t really show much of this moving into the eastern counties …
Iowa Weather Report September 21st 2014
QUIET TIMES AHEAD: As we head into the season of Fall which begins on Monday, the weather pattern looks to become rather benign for the next several days across the state. Outside of a shower and isolated thunderstorm chance in the western counties Tuesday into early on Wednesday, skies will be mainly clear with readings …