A Freeze Warning has been issued from 3am until 9am Tuesday morning for the following counties in Iowa, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Benton, Linn, Jones, Jackson and Jo Daviess County in NW Illinois (across from Dubuque). A Frost Advisory has been issued from 3am until 9am Tuesday morning for the following counties in Iowa, Muscatine, Scott, …
Author: Jeff Wilcox
Possible Heavy Rain this week
It still looks like a lot of rain will fall with a cut-off low that will be slow to move mid week across the area. The heaviest rain will fall in the western part of the state with amounts up to 2 inches possible there. The rest of the state may see at least 1/2-3/4 …
Another Round of Heavy Rain?
The morning QPF chart shows the possiblity of some heavy rainfall amounts in the state over the next 5 days. Most of the state will recieve at least 1 inch of rain with many places south of US Hwy 20 recieving up to 2-3 inches. This would be due to the slow speed of the …
Indian Summer
A warm day today, with temperatures early afternoon moving up into the 60s and lower 70s. This will not last long as cooler and more average temperatures will move back in next week. This might be one of the last warm days of the year.
Pleasant Weekend
After starting off the weekend with frosty windshields and dense fog, the weekend will be very pleasant. Temperatures Saturday afternoon are currently in the mid 50s in the east to lower 60s west with southerly winds beginning to usher in some warmer weather to the area. Sunday will be a few degrees warmer with many …
IowaWX Blog now on Twitter
The IowaWX Weather Blog has now joined Twitter. You can follow my life at twitter.com/iowawx. Twitter has become a very useful tool in the last few months and with the winter season approaching, it can useful for small reports on what’s going on in your neighborhood, whether it’s a snowstorm, an icestorm or even severe …
Snow possible a week from today?
There has been numerous model runs showing a cut off low forming by midweek over the central plains and moving slowly through the state Wednesday through Friday. It will bring down some cold air and there’s a logical chance that some snow could fall in the state a week from today. It is doubtful that …
Gloomy Friday
Clouds and a few isolated rain showers continue in the state this morning. Most of the rain is in the eastern part of the state, east of Cedar Rapids, south of Ottumwa and a few sprinkles near Mason City. The sky has begun to clear in the western part of the state and will continue …
Another Cool Night
A frost Advisory has been issued for Scott County (Quad Cities) from 10pm tonight until 7am Friday morning. Clouds will keep the rest of the area from having another frost tonight. A few rain showers will move in Friday but will be out of the state or will dissipate by high school football time. Lows …
The Growing Season has ended
The first hard freeze occurred last night in many sections of the state. (A post about the frost and freeze advisories of last night got lost and wasn’t published onto the blog). Temperatures fell as low as 24° near Sibley in NW Iowa. As of the now the growing season has ended mainly in areas …