[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5g4MTB6L6U&w=480&h=360] HEAT AND STORMS: There is going to be a lot of heat and very little chance of showers and thunderstorms unless you’re in the northern counties where the chances will be greater, but still very isolated. 90s and triple digits will be the norm through at least Wednesday when a cold front will …
Category: All of Iowa
Iowa Forecast Video 7/22/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhgaEIecLtg&w=480&h=360] HOT WITH ISOLATED RAIN: There’s no real changes over the last few days over what is going to be taking place this week. Temperatures will be hot and there’s slight chances of some isolated showers and thunderstorms through Wednesday at least. Excessive Heat Warnings and Heat Advisories remain in effect in the western …
Iowa Forecast Video 7/21/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQzeso8anT8&w=480&h=360] EXCESSIVE HEAT: Several days of very hot weather in store for the state and region. Excessive heat warnings are in effect beginning this weekend and lasting well into next week for a large portion of the state. Several more counties may be included in the warning or in a heat advisory later this …
2012 Drought: Burn Bans Expanding as of July 20th
Counties are beginning to mount with burn bans across the state. Here are the current list of counties as of Friday morning, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Calhoun, Cedar, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Clayton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Fremont, Greene, Hardin, Henry, Howard, Humboldt, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Lee, …
Iowa Forecast Video 7/20/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZM6Mo1KX70&w=480&h=360] HEAT BUILDING: It’s becoming a broken record of continuously repeating the same forecast over and over again. If it was for rain, it would be a welcome forecast, but unfortunately it’s for more heat and humidity through at least mid-week next week if not longer. Temperatures will run back up into the 90s …
Iowa Forecast Video 7/19/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81jZSksIW5A&w=480&h=360] HEAT AND MORE HEAT: More of the warm weather will continue for at least another week with temperatures well into the 90s and perhaps a few more triple digit readings as well. Muscatine yesterday hit 106, while several other locations in southern Iowa also made it above 100. The northern counties were spared …
Iowa Forecast Video 7/18/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSpQ7WVzIVY&w=480&h=360] ISOLATED RAIN: The chances of rain today and tomorrow are going to be at best isolated and many people may not even get a drop of rain either day. Temperatures will cool in the northern counties today and tomorrow before the heat returns in those areas. The southern counties won’t really lose the …
2012 Drought: Summer Rainfall Deficits
To counter with the post on yearly rainfall deficits across the region and the state, here’s the image of rainfall deficits since June 1st (the start of Meteorological summer). Notice only 5 locations of our 89 have received more than their average for the period June 1st-July 15th, while more than half haven’t even received …
Iowa Forecast Video 7/17/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzYYdyfeJ68&w=480&h=360] HEAT WAVE AGAIN: The heat continues across the state, with a heat advisory across the eastern counties of the state where heat indices may get above 100°. Temperatures will get into the 90s to lower 100s with mainly sunny skies. RAIN CHANCES: There is slight chances of showers and thunderstorms beginning late today …
2012 Drought: Rainfall Deficits
With the drought continuing across the state and region, here is the latest rainfall deficits and a few locales that are ahead of seasonal rainfall averages, this is as of July 15th. Blue and Greenish colors indicate a surplus (very few locales), dark red indicates a deficit of 10% or less of seasonal rainfall, red …