A Bit of Everything Winter – Iowa Weather Network Archives

SOME RAIN, SNOW, WIND: A wintry mix will start out the morning for most of the state with only the southern counties seeing rain for most of the day. The central counties will see a mix of snow, sleet and possibly freezing rain switching to all rain by the late morning hours. The northern counties will stay as a mix for the entire day. Highs today will range from the 30s north to the lower 40s south and southeast. Tonight, temperatures will drop a few degrees which will change the precipitation back to a mix mainly in the northern third of the state. The northwestern counties should change over to some snow by late evening while the southern counties should stay as all rain. As we head into Friday, the rain shifts to mainly to the southern and eastern counties of the state with all snow in the north and west and a strip of mixed precipitation in the middle. This will change to all snow as we head into Friday night and Saturday as the second piece of the system moves through. This will also bring temperatures down as we head to the end of the weekend. We may see temperatures peak on Friday afternoon and see slowly falling temperatures all the way until Sunday morning in some areas. Most of the accumulating snow will be moving out of the state by late on Saturday with gusty winds out of the north and northwest bringing wind chills down below zero for most of the state during the afternoon and especially evening hours. Precipitation amounts look to generally range between a third and three-quarters of an inch of liquid equivalent. It is very difficult to determine how much snow is expected to fall given the amount of time rain and any mix will be occurring in areas, but at this time any accumulations will be a few inches at best.

GET ON DOWN: The temperatures will be getting down, below zero for a large portion of the state Monday morning. This will likely be the coldest morning as High Pressure will be close by and winds will be light and skies mainly clear. Highs on Sunday and Monday will struggle to reach the double digits in many areas. An Alberta clipper looks to drop in late Monday night into Tuesday with a chance of some light snow that will also reinforce the cold Arctic air. Another disturbance comes down from the northwest late Wednesday into early on Thursday as well.

LOOKING AHEAD: (Just model data, NOT A FORECAST) The northwesterly flow is shown to continue next Friday and Saturday with another disturbance. This would bring another chance of some light snow at that time. The cold weather is shown to continue during this time with readings remaining below seasonal levels but perhaps a bit warmer than earlier in the week (at least according to the model). The flow begins to turn more out of the west toward the end of the period with a moderation in the temperatures. A few more systems are shown moving through the area as well but nothing major at this point.