Cool, calm, and quiet weather would be the best way to discuss the short term outlook over the end of this week as we see few precipitation chances and generally normal temperatures, aside from a warming trend for the end of the week.

Today: The weather today will feature mostly sunny-to-partly cloudy skies in the morning with high temperatures reaching the upper 20s in our northeastern sites to the low 40s in the southwest. Clouds will move in throughout the day and lead to mostly cloudy skies. There may be some patchy dense fog possible west of Interstate 35 in the early morning hours. Low temperatures tonight will be on the mild side in the 20s.

Thursday: Highs in the low 30s northeast to the mid 40s southeast with partly cloudy skies. Lows Thursday night will again be in the 20s.

Friday: Warmer, highs ranging from the mid 40s northeast to nearly 50 southwest! Partly cloudy skies. Low temperatures in the upper 20s to low 30s.

Weekend: Saturday will be remarkably warm with highs ranging from the upper 30s in the north to low 50s south. Definitely one of the warmer days we’ve had in a long time. Sunday will be slightly cooler in the 30s and 40s.

Focus then shifts to the next storm system pegged to shift from the Oklahoma panhandle into the Middle Mississippi Valley on Tuesday. Now, please keep all of this in mind. If you see an image from a weather page on Facebook, that is a computer generated model run (GFS, ECMWF, etc)… please note that this is NOT a forecast, and is simply one of many, many possibilities. This is ONE of many forecast models, usually that get ran 4 times a day… this isn’t a humanly cleaned up version. Not to mention that this storm is still out in eastern Russia and eventually the Pacific tonight – we haven’t even been able to collect atmospheric from this upcoming event. The featured image above shows our current thinking on a track as things stand now. This is subject to change.

Notice that we’re only putting area where we think any snow will fall, because putting amounts is simply ludicrous this far out. We’ll have a better idea as things get closer. There are a lot of possibilities with how this will go, and the potential of it being a significant system does exist. But it’s too far out to make a call on at this time. There will likely be some strong winds with this system, so any snow that does fall, could create blowing snow to blizzard conditions. But, again, these details will be ironed out at a later date.

Stay tuned to the Iowa Weather Network for the latest information and enjoy your Wednesday!.