Active Weather Continues This Week – Iowa Weather Network Archives

A ROARING WEEK: A very active week is in store with several systems moving through the state. Our first one will be exiting the state today taking the wintry weather along with it. Highs today will be in the upper 20s north to the 30s elsewhere. Temperatures will warm a bit especially in the southwestern counties where no snow will have fallen. Highs tomorrow there will easily get to 50 while the northeastern counties where snow will have fallen will be in the lower to middle 30s. Another system will move in late Wednesday into Thursday with another chance of some snow, mainly in our northeastern counties once again. Another system late Friday into Saturday could also skirt our northeastern counties with some wintry precipitation as well.

SPRING RETURNS: For most of the state spring like weather will return this coming weekend, but for our western counties, it’ll just be warming up a bit more as we head into the first weekend of March. Skies will be partly to mostly sunny throughout the weekend. Highs on Saturday will be in the 40s northeast to near 60 southwest, with Sunday seeing mid to upper 40s northeast to the lower and middle 60s west and southwest. The GFS has a system moving into the state on Sunday with a chance of some precipitation, but we’ve left it out for now. We’ll keep watching the models for any changes.

MORE ACTIVE IN THE EXTENDED: As we look at the extended period, the GFS show more active weather possible toward the middle and end of next week with a slow moving storm system in the area. At this current time, the thought is that the precipitation would mainly be in the form of rain but it’s too early to go into specifics at this time. It is something we’ll continue to look at in the coming days. Another system is seen on the model around the 13th and 14th of the month with a chance of precipitation at that time as well. Most of the extended period is showing temperatures to be above the seasonal levels with the GFS indicating highs possibly in the 50s and 60s. Of course there are a lot of factors that have yet to be determined for us to get to that point (for example any snow pack we get from the systems this week etc.)