Blizzards, tornadoes, icestorms, cold snaps, clock switching, frantic shopping and Turkey bring about the month of November in Iowa. Blizzards and or snow storms are fairly common in November, but tornadoes are not. Only 3 years ago however, there was a tornado outbreak in Iowa that killed one person (In Stratford) and injured many others. …
Author: Jeff Wilcox
Severe Weather Returning?
A November surprise could be in store come Wednesday with the Storm Prediction Center looking at an area from Iowa southward to Texas for an outbreak of severe weather. This is based on a storm that will develop early in the week and move through the middle part of the country on Wednesday, the models …
Continued Warm
This “Indian Summer” weather will continue through Election Day with temperatures in the 60s and 70s. Although a slight cool off tomorrow into the 50s and lower to middle 60s will happen with an upper level distrubance that could bring some drizzle in the eastern part of the state, the weather will continue to be …
College Football Forecast
Iowa @ Illinois in Champaign (Kickoff 2:30pm) Tailgating: Partly Cloudy Mid 50s Light Wind Kickoff: Partly Cloudy low 60s Light Wind becoming east (blowing across the field) End of Game: Partly Cloudy low-mid 60s East Wind 5-10mph Iowa State @ Oklahoma State at Stillwater (Kickoff 2:30pm) Tailgating: Sunny low-mid 60s Light wind Kickoff: Sunny low …
A Seventh Look at Election Day Weather
This is the seventh look at election day weather. The chances of rain has diminshed siginificantly for Election Day in Iowa. The best chances will be in the NW part of the state early in the day before it moves into Minnesota. A new storm system to the west will begin to take shape and …
Very Warm and Windy
Temperatures this afternoon have climbed well into the 70s in the central and western parts of the state while upper 60s remain elsewhere. Dry air and winds out of the south gusting to 25mph will continue to bring this mild weather in for the next few days. Temperatures will continue in the 60s and 70s …
A Sixth Look at Election Day Weather
This the sixth look at what the weather will be like for Election Day on Tuesday. There is general agreement now of a storm system moving into Iowa on Election day. SW Winds will be apparent all day Tuesday with precipitation moving in around midday (seen above) and lasting the rest of the night. Temperatures …
Halloween Blizzard of 1991
This wasn’t even the biggest weather event of Halloween 1991. The “Perfect Storm” was occurring in New England at this time, but due to that storm there was a blocking pattern going on throughout the United States, thus a storm in the middle of the country could not move east. So it moved north from …
Getting Warmer
A warming trend will begin today with temperatures near average for highs and then getting above average by later this week and first part of the weekend. High School Football sub-state playoff games tonight should have no problems except to bundle up with temperatures at gametime in the upper 40s to low 50s and in …
Temperature Departures
So far in 2008, the temperatures in Iowa have been below average. The chart above shows that Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Sioux City and Dubuque are all below average YTD (Year to Date) with departures between 1.7°-3° below the typical average. With a little over 2 months remaining in the year, there is little …