Beautiful weather ahead for RAGBRAI today with partly cloudy skies with highs peaking into the upper 80s. Still will be a bit humid with dew points in the low-to-mid 70s, but definitely a welcoming change from the excessive heat we’ve experienced in recent days.

The National Weather Service in the Quad Cities has confirmed two tornadoes struck portions of Jackson and Scott counties in east central Iowa on the morning of July 17, 2016. The first tornado began 0.6 miles southwest of Andrew, Iowa in Jackson county at 7:03 a.m. on July 17, 2016. The tornado lifted a very …

The Storm Prediction Center has elevated risks of severe weather over the area today and tomorrow. A low pressure system is expected to move into the Dakotas with an extending cold front through the central Plains. This will set the stage for thunderstorm development later in the afternoon. The environment farther north over Minnesota will …

The latest update from the Storm Prediction Center this afternoon has upgraded much of north central and northeast Iowa to a somewhat uncommon moderate risk of severe weather. The Mesoscale Convective System expected to impact the state later tonight has already formed in central Minnesota with an associated damaging wind threat. A very ripe environment …

An enhanced risk of severe weather remains over the far northern sections of the state today. Scattered supercellular thunderstorms are expected to form in the late afternoon to early evening hours across eastern South Dakota and western Minnesota, gradually growing upscale into a solid mesoscale convective system with damaging winds being the primary threat there. …

After a beautiful Fourth of July weekend characterized by below normal temperatures in the 70s and 80s with nearly no disturbances to speak of, it looks like Iowa will be returning to the normal hot weather we experience. Temperatures tomorrow across southwest Iowa is expected to reach the low-to-mid 90s for many. A very saturated …

An enhanced risk of severe weather has been posted for tomorrow by the Storm Prediction Center. Storms are expected to fire in the late afternoon or early evening hours with damaging winds and an isolated tornado the primary threats. As the night drags on, the damaging wind threat will grow upscale, with concern for damaging wind gusts over 70 MPH. Strong-to-severe storms will continue through the overnight hours throughout the region. An additional risk of severe storms is in place for western Iowa on Wednesday, though these details will need to be kinked out in later forecasts.

An absolutely perfect forecast continues as we roll through the Fourth of July weekend. Temperatures at 3:30 p.m. or so currently range from the mid 60s across southern Iowa, where cloud cover exists, to the mid 70s across northern Iowa.  A few showers or thunderstorms will be possible across the southern two-thirds of the state …

An active period of weather continues today. A low pressure center, loitering around in western Manitoba, will remain dominant over the region today as it drops to nearly 990 mb. A frontal boundary in the form of a cold front will extend southward from this, sitting in a northeast corner-to-southwest corner fashion by late tonight. …

The latest outlook updates from the Storm Prediction Center this morning continues the moderate risk of severe weather, albeit slightly farther south across the Quad Cities metro, and has it extending into much of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. The enhanced risk has been narrowed down to areas east of Interstate 380, north of Interstate 80, …