Iowa Weather Network Archives from 2008 to 2017
By now most people have heard about this mornings earthquake which was felt throughout much of our area. However if you were at work until 5pm today like I was you may have just found this news out! The quake was part of a larger event that was centered near Pawnee in North Central Oklahoma …
I had a learning experience over the past few weeks and I’d like to share what I learned with others! As I was strolling around the garden one evening looking at all the beautiful Black-Eyed Susans in bloom ( Yellow sunflowers above ) I noticed some dead dried leaves that appeared to have been eaten …
A few months ago Iowa Natural Heritage foundation, Warren County conservation and myself organized a volunteer event to help restore Cumming Prairie – a rare prairie remnant along the Great Western Tail in northwest Warren county. The restoration involved cutting out the numerous invasive non native trees, vines, and weeds that formed a thicket and …
Spring is over and the humidity of another long Iowa summer has arrived. The foliage of Tulips and other spring flowers that once graced that landscape last month are starting to fade and the garden goes through a transition from spring bloomers to early summer flowers. Flowers during this season are very important to be …
Now is your chance to come help the Cumming Prairie remnant! As readers may remember this is the same remnant that I did numerous posts on last year. Warren County Conservation and Iowa natural heritage foundation as well as myself all helped to organize a volunteer effort to help restore this prairie back to its …
Spring continues to trek on and it’s not stopping for no one! We are on the spring seasons last flowers as spring bulbs give way to a flurry of other spring favorites including Crab apples, Redbuds as you saw last week and of course Lilacs which are in full bloom right now and have been …
What a beautiful time of year to be in our area! Mid spring is upon us and one can definitely tell as signs of spring’s beauty can be seen at every turn. Currently all of the mid spring flowering trees are in full flower even the well known Lilac is blooming and while these and …
We had the April showers last week with some thunderstorms and rain and we definitely now have the flowers! Unfortunately those thunderstorms came with several cold fronts that brought a roller coaster of temperatures and high winds leading to a couple of nights in which it froze hard. This cold weather really slowed things down …
To most people, trees just blend in with the everyday landscape and they can’t tell one tree from another and may go un noticed with most people’s busy lives. For example do you remember that small tree by the gas station? Chances are probably not because that tree just doesn’t hold a sigificant place in …
Cool weather even snow showers over the weekend put a damper on spring and really slowed things down, however it has warmed back up and today it was in the middle 60s putting everything is back on track, at least until the next snow comes tomorrow! Most noticeable this week are Crab Apple trees, they …