Temperatures at mid-afternoon have dropped into the 30s across the western counties of the state. Sioux City had hit 75° yesterday was down to 39°. Storm Lake was down to 32°. Across the eastern counties where the cold front has yet to move through, readings were still in the 60s and 70s. Muscatine the warmest …
Author: Jeff Wilcox
Iowa Forecast Video 3/7/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7NlKpHF-cw?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] NOT AS WARM: Temperatures will not be as warm as they were yesterday when readings climbed into the 60s and 70s. Today will see a storm system move in with some showers and isolated thunderstorms. Temperatures behind the system will only drop into the 40s and 50s for highs, which will be about …
Really Warm!
Temperatures this afternoon have jumped well into the 60s and 70s across the state. Sioux City has hit 75° which is only a few degrees off the record high for the date. Des Moines has reached 72 as has Keokuk. Burlington is at 71, with Ames, Knoxville, Grinnell and Marshalltown at 70°. Readings may go …
Iowa Forecast Video 3/6/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjie6DYR5NE?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] WARM AND WINDY: It will be a treat for the first week in March to see temperatures in the 50s and 60s and that’s what we’re going to see today across the state. The warm weather will be coming ahead of a storm system that will move into the state on Wednesday with …
Iowa Forecast Video 3/5/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX6IIP1UTJo?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] WARMING UP: Temperatures will warm up this week even with the new snow that fell across a good portion of the state on Sunday. Readings today will be in the upper 30s to upper 40s across the state with winds coming around to the south and becoming breezy. It will be more noticeable …
This Warm, Only Two Days Away
It may not seem warm outside today, but temperatures will warm up in only a few days. Above is an image of the projected highs from the MOS data off the GFS. It is showing 50s and 60s across the state with Lincoln NE possibly approaching 70. The warm weather won’t last with a cold …
Iowa Forecast Video 3/4/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrdTSy-ODUc?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] SNOW ACTIVITY: A clipper system will be racing through the state today with some light accumulations of snow. Amounts will remain at or under an inch and shouldn’t cause many travel difficulties. What could be a bigger difficulty may be the wind. A Wind Advisory has been issued for southeastern South Dakota, eastern …
Snowfall Totals 3/2/2012
Here are some of the snowfall totals across the area. NOTE: This does include the new counties we began covering on Thursday. Sinsinawa WI 5.6″ Dubuque 4.4″ Warren IL 4″ Cuba City WI 3.8″ Lowden 3.5″ Brighton 3.5″ Coyne Center IL 3.1″ Elmira 3″ Loran IL 3″ Center Junction 3″ Solon 2.8″ Platteville WI 2.6″ …
Iowa Forecast Video 3/3/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mgbm70kaRk?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] COOLER WEEKEND: The weekend will not be bad, but it’s not going to be warm either. It could be a whole lot worse, but will take 30s to near 40 for highs over this weekend. There is a chance of a few snow showers or flurries on Sunday with a disturbance along a …
Iowa Forecast Video 3/2/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cna3BEuhuyM?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] STORMY TODAY: The eastern half of the state will be seeing some precipitation today while the western half sees little more than possibly a sprinkle or a flurry. A storm system that will also be responsible for a widespread severe weather outbreak across the Ohio and Tennessee River valleys later today and tonight …