JEFF IS BACK TOMORROW: Jeff will be returning tomorrow with the normal videos, but until then, I’m Lead Forecaster Henry Luker with your Iowa Weather Report. Let’s get to the weather. SNOWFALL WINDING DOWN: We look ahead to very cold temperatures over the next several days after our recent winter storm exits the area. Winter …

A storm system currently sitting over Montana and into the western Dakotas will enter the area later tonight and into Wednesday. Snow is expected to begin falling in the western counties early this morning before overspreading the rest of the state throughout the day. The heaviest snow accumulations (five to seven inches) are expected to …

After a generally quiet day today with mostly cloudy to cloudy skies with seasonally-normal temperatures in the 20s east to the 30s west, a more active weather period is expected into tomorrow. High pressure has dominated over the area with a frontal boundary expected to drive east. As this happens, potential for a wintry mix will …

Freezing rain has developed across southern South Dakota and into Minnesota early this morning and is expected to continue pushing south into the far northern sections of the state. Temperatures in these areas are hovering around freezing which will allow for freezing rain to occur this morning. For this reason, the National Weather Service offices …

One of our many goals for 2015 was to become more localized and unique to each and every viewer of the state. In association with this point, we have decided to re-configure our automated NWS alert system to switch from having all of the statewide alerts on our main Facebook and Twitter pages, and instead having …

Updated: 2:00 PM 2/2/2015 (This will likely be the final update. Some areas may be repeated and others may not be on here.) NWS Des Moines 14.2″ Madrid 14.1″ Clemons 14″ Jamaica 14″ Lowden 14″ Le Claire 13.8″ Olin 13.8″ Saylorville 13.7″ Quad City Airport 13.5″ State Center 13.5″ Davenport 13.5″ Park View 13.4″ Dallas …

Those in the northern one-third of the state are beginning to see road conditions improve further. This trend should continue for the remainder of the state later in the overnight. However, travel is still not advised for most of east central Iowa with roads still completely covered for a large chunk of the state. Tow …

Snow continues to overspread the state at this hour with two primary heavier bands of snow – one with moderate snow from Omaha to Des Moines and through the Cedar Rapids area, and then another smaller, but heavier band around Creston, Osceola, and Maryville MO. Thunderstorms lurking south of Kansas City are pushing more moisture …

  The latest update here at 11:30 PM shows nearly all roads across the state are completely covered with either a slush or snow. There are some exceptions in northwest Iowa and southwest Iowa, but these will likely become fully snow covered later tonight. Note that many of the white or “dry” spots on the …