After several minor severe weather episodes, an organized severe weather event may be making a return to the state. However, with many episodes this year, this is all very conditional and dependent on what happens with an ongoing Mesoscale Convective Vortex moving through the Plains early this morning. There is not terrific predictability with this …
Author: Henry Luker
Abnormally Dry Drought Returning to Northern Iowa
Drought is slowly creeping it’s way back into Iowa, as shown in Tuesday’s drought monitor update from the National Drought Mitigation Center. This will likely surprise many as it seemed that we had endless rain in May, June, and some parts of July As you can see, when compared to climatology, the areas in red are …
Isolated-to-Scattered Severe Thunderstorms Possible Late this Afternoon
An unsettled weather period will continue through the weekend, as defined by a a large upper ridge in the west and a deep low pressure system over Hudson Bay, which will present cyclonic flow over much of the far north central and northeastern United States today. The area of concern over our area today will …
High School State Baseball – Day 3 – Class 2A Quarterfinals
If I had a choice of two words to describe the weather today at Principal Park in Des Moines, the first would be hot and the second would be muggy. A low pressure system across the northwestern United States continues to push a lovely ridge into the area, bringing the hot and humid air in with it. Temperatures …
RAGBRAI XLIII Day 7 Coralville to Davenport
The final day of RAGBRAI is expected to go out with a boom with shower and thunderstorm chances for the vast majority of the day. The day, starting out at 4am, will see Mostly Cloudy skies with a 60% likely chance of showers and thunderstorms. Temperatures will be mild for this time of morning at …
High School State Baseball – Day 2 – Class 1A Quarterfinals
A fantastic day for those heading out to the high school state baseball tournament today in Des Moines as we have the last two class 1A quarterfinal games! Congratulations to Newman-Catholic and Martensdale-St. Marys for winning yesterdays games and earning an advancement to the semifinals. Nothing much to mention for today aside from partly cloudy skies …
Strong-to-Severe Thunderstorms Possible across Iowa Today, Tomorrow
After a brief lull severe weather wise, things are looking to heat back up across Iowa today as the Storm Prediction Center has marked an elevated risk of severe weather for much of the state. Early this morning, scattered showers and thunderstorms were noted across central and southern Minnesota. Unlike the 70 MPH damaging wind …
Heat Advisories across West Central and Southwest Friday
The National Weather Service offices in Des Moines, Omaha, and Sioux Falls have all issued Heat Advisories for the afternoon and evening hours for portions of southwest, west central, and northwestern Iowa today. Temperatures in the afternoon Friday are expected to reach the low-to-mid 90s, and when combined with dew points nearing 80° in some places, …
High School State Baseball – Day 1 – Class 1A Quarterfinals
Hot and mugginess will be the words to describe the first day of the state baseball tournament, featuring the two Class 1A quarterfinal games, starting with #1 Newman Catholic (36-4) vs #8 Gladbrook-Reinbeck (17-11) at 5:00 p.m. and #4 Martensdale-St. Marys (33-5) vs #5 Coon Rapids-Bayard (29-6) at 7:30 p.m. By the time the first …
RAGBRAI XLIII Day 6 Hiawatha to Coralville
RAGBRAI is looking to have another great day tomorrow as the riders head 65.6 miles from Hiawatha to Coralville with 2,955 feet of climb. Things will not be bad at all today with low-to-mid 60s early before hoping up to the mid 80s. Partly sunny skies should be the main condition most of the day …