Author: Henry Luker

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State Girls Basketball Forecast – Day 5

Congratulations to Springville, Unity Christian, North Linn, Nevada, Pocahontas, Harlan, and Western Dubuque for advancing to the IGHSAU 2015 State Championships! Weather today will be much warmer than earlier in the week with highs in the mid 40s and partly cloudy skies expected today. Winds will be relatively light winds at 5-15 MPH. Things will continue …

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State Girls Basketball Forecast – Day 4

A big congratulations out to Newell-Fonda tonight who will be advancing to the class 1A state championship! Also congratulations out to class 4A participants Bishop Heelan and Western Dubuque and class 5A teams Western Des Moines Valley, Iowa City West, Dowling Catholic, and Waukee who will be advancing to the semifinal round. We will be having …

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State Girls Basketball Forecast – Day 3

Congratulations to class 2A team Western Christian, class 3A teams Mediapolis, Nevada, Crestwood, and Pocahontas, and class 4A teams Carlisle and Harlan for moving on to the Iowa girls basketball state semifinals! Weather today with be bitterly colder compared to yesterday. Temperatures are only expected to climb to the upper teens with winds around 10 …

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1:00 AM: Light Snow, Freezing Rain, and Sleet Event Still on Track

A look at the radar early this morning shows light snow scattered over the state. However, much of this is not reaching the ground. Our radar is picking this precipitation up as snow, however Ottumwa last reported UP, or unknown precipitation, also known as the station not being able to identify what kind of precipitation …

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State Girls Basketball Forecast – Day 2

Congratulations to class 1A teams Newell-Fonda (21-5), Burlington Notre Dame (23-1), Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton (25-0), and Springville (22-3) and class 2A teams Unity Christian (25-0), South Central Calhoun (22-2), and North Linn (24-1) for making it on to the semifinals of the 2015 Iowa girls high school basketball tournament! They will be playing later this week for a chance …

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Wintry Mess Set to Impact the Area at the Beginning of the Work Week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgXDJbnk_Qo After the first round of cold weather exits the area, we look ahead to the next system set to impact the area early this week. The GFS has been very consistent with just about everything with this storm over the past several days, which is the reason we are publishing this forecast earlier than …

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Snow Expected This Weekend; 2-4″ Possible in Southern Counties

After another day of the brutal Iowa cold that we have supposedly gotten used to, there will be a *slight* warm up as we begin the weekend. Temperatures will still be seasonably colder than average with high temperatures 10 to 20 degrees below normal. A small impact snow event will impact mostly the southern end …