[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l4Fz9kr6y8?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] NEEDED RAIN: Several Brush fires have occurred over the last 24 hours and some much needed rain will be moving in later today from the south and southwest. However the rainfall will be light with a quarter inch of rain possible with this system with some areas getting up to a half inch. …
Category: All of Iowa
Very High Fire Danger
Strong southwesterly winds along with very low relative humidities are leading to some high fire danger across the state. A Red Flag Warning has been issued across NE and Western Iowa through the evening. Temperatures this afternoon have climbed well into the 60s to near 70 while the relative humidity is currently between 15-30%. This …
Iowa Forecast Video 3/10/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnuO8dLm17g?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] HALF A WEEKEND: Today will be a great day to get out and do something with temperatures climbing back into the 60s. You’d want to do something today, because Sunday will see a chance of some showers and isolated thunderstorms returning to the state. Rainfall amounts will be around a quarter of an …
Iowa Forecast Discussion 3/9/2012
NOTE: No Video today due to being under the weather (LOL!) SUNDAY STORM: Models are still in target for a storm system to move into the state from the southwest Sunday morning. Rainfall wil be heaviest over the east with up to a half inch of rain possible while the western counties will get a …
Iowa Forecast Video 3/8/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl3IdMtrDiU?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] DOSE OF SEASONAL: Readings today will be much cooler than the past few days across the state. Temperatures in the 40s to lower 50s will be about it for many, albeit this is still a few degrees above average, it’s nothing compared to the 60s and 70s of Monday and Tuesday. SUNDAY SOAKER: …
Temperatures Downhill
Temperatures at mid-afternoon have dropped into the 30s across the western counties of the state. Sioux City had hit 75° yesterday was down to 39°. Storm Lake was down to 32°. Across the eastern counties where the cold front has yet to move through, readings were still in the 60s and 70s. Muscatine the warmest …
Iowa Forecast Video 3/7/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7NlKpHF-cw?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] NOT AS WARM: Temperatures will not be as warm as they were yesterday when readings climbed into the 60s and 70s. Today will see a storm system move in with some showers and isolated thunderstorms. Temperatures behind the system will only drop into the 40s and 50s for highs, which will be about …
Really Warm!
Temperatures this afternoon have jumped well into the 60s and 70s across the state. Sioux City has hit 75° which is only a few degrees off the record high for the date. Des Moines has reached 72 as has Keokuk. Burlington is at 71, with Ames, Knoxville, Grinnell and Marshalltown at 70°. Readings may go …
Iowa Forecast Video 3/6/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjie6DYR5NE?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] WARM AND WINDY: It will be a treat for the first week in March to see temperatures in the 50s and 60s and that’s what we’re going to see today across the state. The warm weather will be coming ahead of a storm system that will move into the state on Wednesday with …
Iowa Forecast Video 3/5/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX6IIP1UTJo?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] WARMING UP: Temperatures will warm up this week even with the new snow that fell across a good portion of the state on Sunday. Readings today will be in the upper 30s to upper 40s across the state with winds coming around to the south and becoming breezy. It will be more noticeable …