[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UCx5Yy6wEE&hl=en&fs=1] Above is the forecast video for the High School Football games, Friday night, along with the college football games for Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa on Saturday.
Author: Jeff Wilcox
Wintery Precip Possible Late Next Week?
Above is the MOS data from the 0Z run of the GFS Model. It shows much cooler temperatures that we’ve been experiencing over the last few weeks. The Model run also shows a chance that some of the precipitation in the northwestern quarter of Iowa into Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota may become mixed with …
Rainy Weekend
The abnormally dry streak across the state will likely end this weekend with a good chance of showers and isolated thunderstorms this weekend. Some rainfall could be heavy in areas that recieve a thunderstorm, otherwise rainfall will remain generally under a half inch or so. This would great news given the dry streak we’ve been …
Winter Weather Next Week?
Forecast models are beginning to show a possible turn to winter weather over the state late next week. A large storm system is forecast to move thorugh the midwest at the middle to end of the week. Enough cold air will pour on the northwest side of the storm which will cause the precipitation to …
More Good Weather For Farmers
Another week of dry weather will continue across the state. This will be good for farmers who have yet to harvest their crops. The continued dry streak will last through the week before another chance of rain moves back in Saturday. Although the rain chances will be slight on Saturday, it likely won’t cause much …
Dry October Continues
As you can see on the chart, it has been a relatively dry October across not only the state of Iowa but across the upper midwest. Only Kansas City has had more than a quarter of an inch of rain this month of the sites shown here. Only Ames, Dubuque and Burlington have had more …
Football Forecast Video Weeek #8
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fCl-L61idU&hl=en&fs=1] Here is the forecast video for Week #8. This includes the Iowa High School Football Forecasts along with the Forecast for the Iowa game at Michigan (2:30pm CT), Iowa State game at Oklahoma (6pm CT) and the Northern Iowa game at South Dakota (4:05pm CT).
The end of the warmer weather near
The above average temperatures we’ve been seeing across the state and the upper midwest over the last few weeks looks to be coming to an end sometime early next week. A cold front is expected to move into the state late Sunday night through Tuesday bringing widespread chances of showers during that time. Temperatures will …
Shocker! Storms moving through State
For the first time in over two weeks, showers and isolated thunderstorms are moving through the state this afternoon. Some of the storms may produce some small hail, but severe weather is not antcipated with any of the storms this afternoon and evening. The storms are currently along a line extending from Monona in northern …
Where is Fall?
Seems like summer doesn’t want to end across the state and the upper midwest this year. Temperatures this past weekend were at or near record highs for the date. Readings today were in the 70s outside of the clouds and widely scattered showers and sprinkles that occurred in the western sections of the state today. …