[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ5kn0OT-FI?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] MORE DRY WEATHER: I could type the same thing over and over, dry weather continues across the state over the next few days. BUT some interesting weather will move into the eastern counties of the state later Thursday and mainly Friday into Saturday. Clouds from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee will be …
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Iowa Forecast Video 9/7/2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bKmWnF2drs?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] DRY TIMES CONTINUE: The weather pattern doesn’t look to be changing anytime soon across the state. There is a wrinkle in the forecast however. The remnants of Lee may swing back in our direction by Friday into Saturday. The model wants to bring an isolated shower, but given the dry atmosphere and low …
Iowa Forecast Video 9/6/2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu0ZA8NeyV4?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] MORE DRYNESS AHEAD: It will be a broken record forecast over the next week or so. Almost no chances of rain (outside of a very isolated chance Friday across the SE) over the next week to possibly ten days! Temperatures will be slowly warming up through the week with highs climbing back into …
Iowa Forecast Video 9/5/2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaQFs-qWrTM?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] DRY WEATHER AHEAD: Cool and dry weather conditions will prevail across the state for the next several days. Outside of a possible chance of an isolated shower due to an upper level feature of which part of it will be from Tropical Storm Lee’s remnants late Friday into Saturday, the weather will be …
Iowa Forecast Video 9/4/2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_qjY8NdnvU?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] DRY WEEK AHEAD: Cool and dry weather is in store for the rest of the holiday weekend, with slowly warming temps heading into the following weekend. Sunshine with some afternoon clouds is all we’ll likely see through at least next weekend. This may change depending on the progress of Lee and its remnants. …
Rain to End This Evening
Showers and isolated thunderstorms continue across the eastern half of the state. There has been some heavy amounts of rain but most places have received at least a half inch of rain with some areas seeing as much as 2-3″. After the rain moves out later this evening. We will be in store a long …
Iowa Forecast Video 9/3/2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DRTZGksLo8?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] STORMS TODAY: There is a slight chance of severe weather again for today and tonight for the southeastern half of the state. The main threats will be from large hail and damaging winds. This will be mainly in the morning and then again later in the afternoon into the evening hours. Most of …
Possible Watch Later Today
MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 2097 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0241 PM CDT FRI SEP 02 2011 AREAS AFFECTED…ERN NEB THROUGH CNTRL IA INTO SRN WI/NRN IL CONCERNING…SEVERE POTENTIAL…WATCH POSSIBLE VALID 021941Z – 022115Z THE THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS CAPABLE OF MAINLY DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE ACROSS DISCUSSION AREA THROUGH MID-LATE AFTERNOON. …
Iowa Forecast Video 9/2/2011
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJUJWitaMp8?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] SVR WX THREAT: There is a slight risk of severe weather today and tonight and into tomorrow across a small section of the state. Today’s threat extends SW to NE across the central counties of the state. Saturday’s threat is for the east central counties of the state. The threats will be from …
Severe Drought in SE Iowa
The latest drought monitor shows that severe drought now exists across the southeastern counties of the state with moderate drought extending northwest into central Iowa. Currently 24.71% is in some kind of drought with 9.41% in severe drought or D2. This is the first time any part of Iowa has had severe drought since August …