Except for a few light snow showers or flurries this week, the weather will remain rather benign up until the weekend. Another cold night is in store tonight with single digits and teens for lows. Colder locales may dip below zero. Temperatures will steadily rise through the week with highs climbing to near or slightly …
Author: Jeff Wilcox
Cold Wintry Week
This coming week will feature a lot of cold weather, a lot of sunshine with a few clouds and a few chances of snow. First off, temperatures, readings will be cold to being the week, especially in the snow covered locations where highs may struggle into the lower 20s Monday and Tuesday, while the rest …
FINAL Snowfall Amounts (12/3-4 2010)
This is the FINAL Total of snowfall amounts. (There could be a few more but they won’t be listed here). These amounts are as of 3pm Saturday Afternoon.
Road Conditions as of 5pm 12/3/10
Here is the current road conditions across the state. An update to this map is that US 52 from Dubuque to Sabula is completely covered in ice and snow.
Travel Conditions Deterioriating
This shows how travel has become impacted in the Quad Cities. This was taken a few minutes ago from I-74 at US Hwy 67 looking south toward the Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge (which you would be able to see in normal conditions). Travel is slowing down with snow beginning to accumulate on the road surfaces. This …
What Snow will Do to Temps
Above are the GFS MOS Projected lows for Tuesday morning for the region (NOTE this map includes more cities than previous maps). Readings will be below zero throughout most of northern and NE Iowa (where the heavy snow will fall tonight into Saturday), most of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Where snow is not likely to fall …
Midday Update on Snowstorm (12/3/10)
Here are the current advisories and warnings as of Noon Friday. A few counties have been added to the Winter WX Advisory and some counties in the NC sections of the state were upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning. Accumulations are still on target for as much as 5-7″ of snow in the NE. 2-5″ …
Winter Storm Warnings for NE Iowa
The National Weather Service in LaCrosse has issued a Winter Storm Warning effective this afternoon until Saturday afternoon for the following counties, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Allamakee, Winneshiek, Fayette, Chickasaw and Clayton. There is also a Winter Weather Advisory now in effect from Friday afternoon until Saturday afternoon for the following counties, Kossuth, Winnebago, Worth, Hancock, …
Winter Storm Watch Friday and Saturday
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Watch which will go into effect Friday afternoon and be in effect until Saturday morning (in NC Iowa) and Saturday afternoon (in NE and EC Iowa) for the following counties, Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Hancock, Kossuth, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Winnebago, Worth, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek, Allamakee, Floyd, …
More on Possible Arctic Cold Next Week
Looking a bit further into the possible arctic cold that is forecasted to follow the snow storm Friday night into Saturday, temperatures Monday morning (seen above) and Tuesday morning will be in the single digits above and below zero mainly north of US Hwy 30. With the possibility of snow cover on the ground, the …