[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2boofdpEkko&w=480&h=360] HEAT BUILDING: It will be several days of hot weather across the state and region and this will be the case at least through the weekend with heat advisories for most of the state until Saturday at the earliest. Temperatures will climb well into the 90s with heat indices exceeding 100 each afternoon …
Author: Jeff Wilcox
Iowa Forecast Video 7/2/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buAzKPcHQAk&w=480&h=360] HEAT WAVE: The heat is returning to the state in time for the Independence Day Holiday on Wednesday. It will also be dry across the state this week as well with the slightest of chances of a shower Wednesday in the far northeastern counties. Outside of that readings will climb well into the …
Iowa Forecast Video 6/30/2012 Evening
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAvEDtnafd0&w=560&h=315] BECOMING HOT AGAIN: A slight cool off today will be short lived as the frontal system that brought the showers and thunderstorms Friday retreats back across the state to the north on Sunday and into Monday. With this, there could be a risk of some showers and thunderstorms, some of which could be …
Iowa Forecast Video 6/30/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd7K_VM0j4E&w=560&h=315] STORMY AND HUMID: This looks to be the case this weekend with hot humid weather during the day with several chances of showers and thunderstorms across the area during the afternoon and especially at night with some possible MCS’s. Readings will remain throughout the next week in the upper 80s to middle 90s …
Severe Weather Coverage 6/29/2012
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Heat Records in Des Moines Wednesday and Thursday
…HEAT RECORDS FOR DES MOINES IN THE LAST TWO DAYS… THE LAST TWO DAYS…JUNE 27 AND 28…HAVE SEEN EXCEPTIONAL WARMTH AT DES MOINES ESPECIALLY FOR THIS EARLY IN THE SUMMER. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 101 DEGREES ON THE 27TH WAS THE FIRST TRIPLE-DIGIT HEAT REGISTERED SINCE 2006…AND THE FIRST IN JUNE SINCE 1988. THIS IS …
Slight Risk of Severe Weather Friday
There is a slight risk of severe weather today and tonight for a large portion of the state. The main threats with any storms that fire will be from large hail and damaging straight line winds. This is a conditional threat based on a wave moving along the stalled boundary that is situated currently over …
Iowa Forecast Video 6/28/2012 Evening
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWyo-c1ws68&w=560&h=315] HOT WITH STORMS: The GFS continues to be bullish on some continued chances of showers and thunderstorms. These storm chances are likely to be mainly nocturnal and isolated with everyone not seeing rainfall every night over the next couple of days. Some of the storms could get strong if they develop with hail …
Iowa Forecast Video 6/27/2012 Evening
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LvacLkHZk&w=560&h=315] NOTE: The Forecast Videos are moving to evenings, more changes to follow. Also there’s a few hiccups in the video as I was trying to find all the images from the google hangout. TOO HOT: It got over 100 today in Des Moines for the first time since 2006. It also hit the …
Iowa Forecast Video 6/27/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kadpvbvjzgI&w=480&h=360] VERY HOT: It’s going to be very hot over the next few days, with temperatures well into the 90s if not a few locations possibly getting into the triple digits. Some heat indices well be well over 100 as well. This is why there is heat advisories in effect for a large section …