Iowa Weather Report January 28th 2014 – Iowa Weather Network Archives

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A FEW SNOW SYSTEMS: The rest of the week into the weekend will be filled with sunshine, colder than average temperatures and some snow. We start out with the bitter cold that will still be felt across the state today. Highs will range from the single digits below zero over the far northeastern counties to the middle teens in the southwestern counties with bountiful amounts of sunshine. The winds turn around to the west southwest on Wednesday and that will really boost the readings back into the 20s and 30s across the state with perhaps a few more clouds around but still enough sunshine to go around. The next system comes through as we move into Wednesday night and Thursday with some snow possible. At this time, accumulations look to be around an inch with perhaps some isolated heavier totals than that. We’ll fine tune that as we go along. Friday, we’ll be in between systems as readings will be in the teens to lower 20s across the state with partly to mostly sunny skies around. Late Friday night into Saturday comes the next quick moving system bringing yet more snow to the area. This also looks to dump an inch or two of snow as well according to the GFS. Sunday shows sunshine returning once again, but readings will still be below seasonal levels for the end of January into the first of February with highs in the teens and 20s across the area and lows in the single digits to lower teens.

FEBRUARY FUN: The GFS continues to show some interesting events that we’ll be monitoring over the next few days or so. One is a possible system that may bring us some snow on the 4th and 5th of February. This run however shows that most of the moisture would miss the state to our south, but we’ll watch to see if this moves northward with time. Some earlier model runs had significant snow across the state with this feature. Another system around the 7th and 8th could also bring us some snow as well. Following the second system, the model shows more arctic air spilling into the state from the north and northwest. That would bring readings back down below zero more than likely if this verifies. Toward the end of the period the GFS does show temperatures modifying toward seasonal levels for the middle of the month, but we’ll believe that when we see it at this point.