At the 12:00am hour, those along or just north of the Iowa-Minnesota border were seeing snowfall rates of around 1.5″ per hour. A large band of snow exists from south central Minnesota through northeastern Iowa. We currently anticipate heavier snowfall totals the farther northeast you go. Austin, Minnesota has already reported 1.8″ in …

A large band of light snow will continue moving easterly across the area. Some of this snow is not even reaching the ground. The icons represent airport automated stations that are reporting light snow. Nonetheless, less than an inch of snow will be possible overnight. Another system moves into the area with one to three …

Monthly Record for Lowest High Temperature: Des Moines: 2° ties March 10, 1948. (66 years) Waterloo: -1° breaks old record of 1° set on March 1, 1962. (52 years) Mason City: -3° ties March 10, 1948. (66 years) Dubuque: 3° breaks old record of 6° set on March 16, 1900. (114 years) Moline: 7° breaks …

  The National Weather Service offices around the state have issued Wind Chill Advisories from this evening through tomorrow morning. Northerly winds of 10 to 15 mph (with higher gusts) are expected overnight, and in combination with below zero temperatures, wind chill values will drop to 20 to 30 below through tomorrow morning. Summary of …

A long-awaited merger has finally been approved and is under construction at Iowa-Skywarn.org at this time. In association with this new and exciting change, the Iowa Weather Network will be rebranding itself, including it’s logos and just overall look. Some of the changes have already been noticed in new graphics that were released a couple months ago. Beginning on March …

Here are the snow totals from the snow storm “blizzard” on Thursday. These are the FINAL Totals received Britt 10.5 Belmond 9 Manly 7.5 St. Ansgar 7.4 Mason City 7.1 Cresco 6.5 Williams 6.5 Carpenter 6.2 Buckeye 6 North Washington 6 New Hampton 6 Nora Springs 6 Riceville 5.1 Charles City 4.6 Clear Lake 4.5 …