Iowa Weather Report June 25th 2015: Just Keeps On Keeping On

STILL STORMY TIMES: There are more chances of seeing showers and thunderstorms across the state through the end of the week and into the weekend. One of those days is not today however. Outside of a few morning showers and storms in the eastern and southeastern counties of the state, we should be dry with partly sunny skies for most of the state. The far eastern and southeastern counties may hold out with more clouds. Highs today will be in the 70s to around 80. Another complex of thunderstorms is forecast to move through the state either late tonight or early tomorrow morning. We may see some redevelopment of this activity late Friday afternoon before it moves off to the east. The main threat would likely be from flash flooding as we’ve seen quite a bit of rainfall over the last few days. Highs on Friday will be wholly dependent on what occurs during the morning hours and if the storms linger for most of the days. Readings in the 70s and lower 80s look to be a good starting point but would have to be adjusted in case rain lingers through the morning and into the afternoon hours. Another break on Saturday with mainly sunny skies around will give way to another complex of storms Sunday afternoon and evening. This too could bring us some rainfall that may lead to some flooding. We’ll watch for any changes to this forecast over the next day or two.

SUMMERTIME COOLDOWN: Heading into next week, a trough digs across the east while a ridge builds over the west. This will put us in a northwesterly flow across our area which will keep temperatures below seasonal levels. It will also bring another system in from the northwest toward the middle of next week with showers and thunderstorms possible at that time. At this point the cooler than average temperatures looks to continue at least through Independence Day.

FIREWORKS AGHAST: As we look into the extended period which takes us through Independence Day and beyond, the GFS model is still showing a system moving through the area on Independence Day from the west. It’s still too early to determine much of anything at this point, but we’ll keep watching this nonetheless. The pattern is shown to change at the same time as well, with the ridge over the west flattening and the flow becomes more zonal across the country, albeit still a tad cooler than average for the early part of July. A few more systems are shown moving through the area with a possible warm up to above average temperatures at the end of the period. We’ll see if this continues in future model runs.