Where Iowa lucked out on getting the heavy amounts of snow, the neighbors to the north weren’t so fortunate. The Twin Cities Metro area was dumped on. With numerous locations around the metro receiving 16-22″ of snow. Minneapolis received 17.1″ This caused the dome roof at the Metrodome to partially collapse (or deflate) this morning. …
Author: Jeff Wilcox
Snowfall Amounts (12/11/10 Blizzard)
Here are the latest snowfall accumulations from the Blizzard (This will be updated frequently) This update is as of 11am Sunday.
Cold Wind Chills
Here are a few of the colder wind chills that are currently happening across the state. Sustained winds are generally in the 25-45mph with gusts approaching 60mph in some locations. Temperatures in NW Iowa have fallen to near 0 while the central sections are still in the teens and the eastern and SE sections are …
DO NOT DRIVE TONIGHT
Most of the roads in the state except in the extreme east and SE Iowa, are either impassable, or travel is not advised on them. Within a few hours, almost if not all highways in the state will be in one of those two conditions. It is best that if you don’t need to travel …
Very Strong Winds Today
Here are a few wind gusts that were measured today on various mesonet, RWIS or other stations across the state Algona 60mph Polk City 65mph Farnhamville 66mph Anita 64mph Carroll 64mph Creston 61mph Audubon 70mph
Blizzard Conditions Moving East
The latest radar image shows a swath of snow, some of it heavy across the northern counties extending into the central and SW sections of the state. Along with this snow, are the strong gusty winds creating the blizzard conditions across the state. This will continue moving into the eastern counties over the next few …
Latest Road Conditions as of 7:45 Saturday
Many roads in the western half of the state are now either impassable or travel isn’t advised on them. This will also be likely for the roads and highways in the eastern half of the state over the next few hours as blizzard conditions move in. If you aren’t experiencing blizzard conditions at this time, …
Road Conditions as of 5pm 12/11/10
Here is the current road conditions across the state. The roads that are labeled in red are impassable or closed. Purple indicated travel not advised (some of these roads have been closed off and on all afternoon and will likely close this evening), pink indicates completely or mostly covered roads, blue indicates partly covered roads. …
Plows Being Pulled Off Roads
THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE DICKINSON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. ABSOLUTELY NO TRAVEL IN DICKINSON COUNTY TONIGHT. THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IS PULLING ALL REMAINING PLOWS AT 5 PM FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT. ALL RURAL ROADS ARE OR SOON WILL BE IMPASSIBLE. CITY STREETS ARE ALSO IMPASSIBLE. VISIBILITY IS …
Latest Radar Image of Blizzard
The image above is of the NWS Doppler Radar about ten minutes ago. It shows a large swath of heavy wet snow across the eastern and northern counties, with lighter fluffy snow to the north and NW, which is blowing around. The low pressure center is north of Ames currently and continues to deepen (under …