Author: Jeff Wilcox

All of Iowa, Historical Weather, Winter Weather

Historical Wx: April Blizzard of 1973

When you think of April, you think of trees budding, grass beginning to turn green, flowers starting to poke out of the ground and bloom, farmers getting into their fields to prepare for Spring Planting and the first days you’re able to open the windows and let the fresh warm spring air in after a …

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Iowa Weather Report April 5th 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkI_BPJ7VjM&w=480&h=360] CARBON COPY: Today will be similar to yesterday with partly to mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the upper 40s NE to lower 60s south. Clouds will be on the increase from west to east during the day as the first in a series of storm systems approaches from the west. ACTIVE TIME: …

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Iowa Weather Report April 4th 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGHLfJvbrB4&w=480&h=360] WARM DAYS: A few warm days ahead with some chance of rain Saturday as the pattern starts to become active across the area. Today we’ll see plenty of sunshine once again with readings heading into the 50s and lower 60s across the area. A weak frontal system will move through the state late …

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Iowa Weather Report April 3rd 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TkBfWv5IMc&w=480&h=360] ON THE REBOUND: Temperatures are on the way up for the rest of the week. Sunshine will continue across the state today with readings heading into the upper 40s to near 60. It will warm a few more degrees Thursday with 50s and lower 60s possible across the area. A weak cold front …

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Iowa Weather Report April 2nd 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdZk6XwpTss&w=480&h=360] SLOWLY WARMING: Today will continue to stay fairly cold for this time of year with readings in the upper 30s through the lower 50s from north to south today with sunny skies. Temperatures are going to start a slow and steady warm up into the 40s and 50s tomorrow and perhaps some 60s …

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Iowa Weather Report March 31st 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIpTlafQNs0&w=480&h=360] EASTER LILLIES, SNOW FLURRIES: A day of transition for Easter Sunday as cold air is waiting in the wings for the following week. Readings today will still be somewhat warm with highs in the 40s north to 50s south. Winds will be quite gusty out of the northwest at 15-30mph. Tonight a disturbance …

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Iowa Weather Report March 30th 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sry1RbfdJdQ&w=480&h=360] RUMBLIN RAINY SATURDAY: Showers and a few thunderstorms will traverse the skies over Iowa today. Amounts will range from a quarter to half inch with isolated heavier totals in areas that receive thunderstorms. The rain and storms will move out of western Iowa by Noon, Central Iowa by late afternoon into the evening …

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Iowa Weather Report March 29th 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kei7CI9Jsxw&w=480&h=360] EASTER WEEKEND: When you think of Easter, you think of warm weather and springtime. When you’ll think of Easter 2013, you won’t be thinking warm weather or springtime, because it won’t feel like either of them by Sunday. First off today will be the antithesis of what Sunday will bring, warm weather, sunshine …

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Iowa Weather Report March 28th 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiD7cNOaS_E&w=480&h=360] WARMING INTO EASTER: Readings continue their slow climb to average as we near the Easter Holiday Weekend. It will be partly to mostly sunny again today with readings in the 40s to near 50, still a few degrees off the seasonal averages for this time of year. We will reach seasonal levels on …