The National Weather Service has issued a Frost Advisory from 1am Saturday until 8 or 9am for the following counties, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cerro Gordo, Crawford, Emmet, Franklin, Greene, Grundy, Guthrie, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldt, Kossuth, Marshall, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Sac, Story, Tama, Webster, Winnebago, Worth, Wright, Buchanan, Delaware, …
Author: Jeff Wilcox
Iowa Forecast Video 9/30/2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8VNFZhTxhM?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] DRY CONDITIONS: We’ll be experiencing some cooler and drier conditions in the state over the upcoming weekend and into the first part of next week. It will be cool Saturday morning with some light frost possible across the northeastern counties where winds will be light and temperatures will drop into the lower and …
Wind Gusts Today
Here are a few wind gust reports from across the state today. MASON CITY ….. 59 MPH FOREST CITY …. 58 MPH MESKWAKI ……. 58 MPH (School net site) ESTHERVILLE …. 55 MPH CEDAR RAPIDS … 54 MPH MARSHALLTOWN … 54 MPH OTTUMWA …….. 54 MPH IOWA CITY …… 53 MPH WATERLOO ……. 53 MPH …
Iowa Forecast Video 9/29/2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFVvtsmu5h4?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] WINDY WEATHER: A cold front will be moving through the state early today and with it comes a few clouds but mainly very windy conditions. A Wind Advisory has been issued for the northeastern half of the state where winds could gust as high as 40-50mph. DRY: That will be the main word …
Strong Winds Thursday
The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory for Thursday morning through the evening across the northeastern half of the state (Advisory begins in the morning across the west and early afternoon across the east). The counties included are, Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, …
Wide Ranging Readings
You can tell across the region today where the clouds are still sticking around from the pesky upper level low that is moving off to the east across the Great Lake States. Temperatures are being held down into the 60s across the eastern counties, while out west readings have soared well into the 80s under …
Iowa Forecast Video 9/28/2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iljWdyfdWHI?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] DRY WEATHER AHEAD: No more talk about the Upper Level low as it will be far enough to the east that it won’t be effecting the weather in the state today and anymore. What will be left in its wake is a long stretch of dry weather with seasonal temps through Thursday before …
Changes to Climate Information in Eastern Iowa
I found this on the NWS Quad Cities site today, EFFECTIVE SATURDAY…OCTOBER 1 2011…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES WILL NO LONGER REPORT SNOWFALL AND SNOW DEPTH DATA IN THE DAILY…MONTHLY…SEASONAL…OR ANNUAL CLIMATE REPORTS FOR THE AUTOMATED SURFACE OBSERVATION SYSTEMS /ASOS/ LOCATED AT THE FOLLOWING AIRPORTS… BURLINGTON…IA CEDAR RAPIDS…IA AND IOWA CITY…IA. SOME OF THE …
Cold and Snowy?
It may seem a bit odd to be talking about possible SNOW when it’s the final few days of September, but the 12z Model Run shows some possible snow flurries across the northern sections of the state on Columbus Day. The 540mb (a good indication of the freeze line) will be right across the stat …
Iowa Forecast Video 9/27/2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DG_wPZ9X_8?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] ULL DEPARTING: The pesky upper level low is finally going to be departing off to the east today. However it will still be close enough to bring some isolated showers across the eastern half of the state. Rainfall amounts will generally be under a quarter of an inch or less. The rain and …