The recent weather has many questioning not just around Iowa, but all over the Midwest how odd it has been lately. The biggest thing coming into conversation is the abundance of rain and the lack of snow and incredible December warmth that has been in place since fall started. Basically, we are totally lacking a …
Month: December 2015
The Winter Force is With Us Now
DECEMBER STRIKES BACK: Oh my goodness, we’re going to have seasonal readings for the next couple of days. Highs in the 20s and 30s will be common through Saturday with some slightly warmer temperatures on Sunday ahead of a weak system that could bring a little rain and or snow to the state. There will …
Dropping Temps Back to December Levels
FAIRLY QUIET WEEK AHEAD: We’ll see a bit of rain and or snow mix across our northern counties today while the rest of the state will see mainly cloudy skies. We can’t rule out any precipitation elsewhere in the state but the best chances will across the northern two tiers of counties. Highs today will …
A Speck of Snow But Mainly Quiet Week Ahead
A SKIRTING STORM: Another storm system will be moving into the state today into Wednesday bringing a chance of some rain across most of the state, however the northern and northwestern counties will see wintry precipitation in the form of a rain snow mix changing to all snow. Accumulations will be minor with only an …
The Wild and Wacky Weather Show – Presented by El Niño
Seemingly endless rain continues across the state this morning and will likely continue through some of the day. Additional rainfall amounts of a half inch to an inch will be possible in some areas by the time all is set and done. This is a very rare event to occur: Preliminary data indicates 1.49″ of …
Wet Sunday
Today: Widespread rain with a few embedded thunderstorms will dominate the weather for your Sunday. Many areas across Iowa will receive 1 to 3 inches of rain Sunday into early Monday. Highs today will range from the upper 30’s across NW Iowa to the lower 60’s in the SE corner of the state. We could see …
Flash Flood Warning for Marshall, Story, Hardin, Tama, Grundy and Black Hawk Counties until 8am
BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 213 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR… MARSHALL COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA… NORTHEASTERN STORY COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA… SOUTHEASTERN HARDIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA… NORTHERN TAMA …
At Least It’s Not Snow…
Today: Mostly Cloudy skies will eventually lead to rain developing from West to East across the entire state today. Temps will range from the mid 40’s in the NW to around 60 in the E/SE part of the state.
Raining Down On December Ground
No Video Today WEEKEND WETNESS: Partly to mostly sunny skies will be likely across the state today ahead of a storm system that will move in this weekend bringing with it quite a bit of rain and perhaps a bit of wintry precipitation in our northwestern counties. Highs today will not feel very wintry with …
Where’s Winter? (Vacationing in the Pacific Northwest Evidently)
BECOMING MORE ACTIVE: The rest of the week will continue to feature above average temperatures and fairly quiet weather ahead of the storm system this weekend. Highs today will be in the 50s to lower 60s across the state with partly to mostly sunny skies. There is a disturbance that will move just north of …