The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag warning for this afternoon into early this evening for the western and central counties of the state. This is due to low relative humidity and breezy conditions which will lead to a extreme risk of wildfires in these areas. This includes the cities of Fort Dodge, …
Author: Jeff Wilcox
Iowa Weather Report March 30th 2015: Warming Up, Wednesday Active?
THE WEEK AHEAD: The work week will begin with temperatures warming well into the 60s and 70s across the state with mainly sunny skies around. The next storm system will move into the state on Wednesday. This will bring a chance of showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours. Some of the storms …
Iowa Weather Report March 29th 2015: Morning Rain, Afternoon Sun
No Video Today HEADING INTO NEXT WEEK: Some early morning showers will be possible with skies clearing from west to east later today. Readings will be held down in the eastern counties due to the amount of clouds around for quite a bit of the day. Readings in the lower and middle 50s will be …
Iowa Weather Report March 28th 2015: Saturday Sun, Sunday Rain
WEEKEND: This weekend will bring some sunshine today and some rain with some wintry mix early on Sunday. Today skies will be mainly sunny with a few clouds with readings in the upper 30s northeast to the lower 50s in the western counties of the state. Heading into Sunday, a storm system will move into …
Iowa Weather Report March 26th 2015: A Cool Down
No Video Today COOL DAYS IN STORE: The next few days will be cool across the state with readings a bit below seasonal levels in the 30s and 40s across the state. Skies will be partly to mostly sunny. A few disturbances look to move across the state late tonight and again Friday night with …
Iowa Weather Report March 25th 2015: Cool Days Ahead
COOLER TEMPS: Another cloudy day in store today but readings look to be a bit warmer than it was on Tuesday with readings in the 40s and 50s across the state. This will be short lived as colder air will return and looks to last the rest of the week. This will bring readings down …
Iowa Weather Report March 24th 2015: Wet Times Ahead
No Video Today WET PERIOD AHEAD: Several chances of precipitation in the next 48 hours across the state. Most of which will be in the form of showers and thunderstorms, however some of the precipitation in the northwestern counties of the state later on today could mix with some sleet or snow. Some light accumulation …
Surprise Snowfall Totals March 23rd 2015
It may be Severe Weather Awareness week but the latest storm dumped quite a bit of snow in far northeast Iowa and adjacent parts of SE Minnesota, SW Wisconsin into Northwestern Illinois. Here are some of the snowfall reports received through mid-day Monday. Woodman WI 15 Fennimore WI 15 Prairie Du Chien WI 13 Waukon …
Iowa Weather Report March 23rd 2015: Little Of This, Little of That
AN ACTIVE WEEK AHEAD: The weather pattern is getting more active across the area this week with several systems bringing much needed precipitation to the state. The current system that bought some snow and wintry mix across the northeastern counties of the state will be moving out early on today. Any precipitation should be ending …
Wintry Weather in NE Iowa
The National Weather service has had winter weather advisories up for most of the day across far northeastern Iowa for some snow that has been falling in those areas. They have expanded it further southwest over time and have since triggered a Winter Storm Warning for Howard, Winneshiek, Allamakee and Clayton counties through the rest …