Temperatures at mid-afternoon have climbed into the 40s and 50s as predicted, all of the snow pack in western Iowa will be gone by the end of the week, if it isn’t gone already. Temperatures tonight will settle into the upper 20s to mid 30s with isolated showers possible as a warm front moves across …
Category: All of Iowa
Quiet Night
It’s a quiet night across the state. A few radar echoes are showing up in NE Iowa, but no stations are reporting precipitation at this hour. With dewpoints in the teens and temperatures in the 20s, any precipitation that falls will be very light, a few flurries at best. The warmup begins tomorrow with temperatures …
Goodbye Winter
Today will be the last day for awhile of winter like cold across the state. Highs today will mainly be in the 30s. A warming trend begins Wednesday with temperatures moving into the 40s to around 50, and then rising into the 50s on Friday. Precipitation will move in this upcoming weekend with chances of …
New Severe Criteria
The Central Region Headquarters of the National Weather Service in Kansas City issued new criteria for Severe Thunderstorm Warnings. The criteria for severe hail has been raised from 3/4 inch in diameter to 1 inch for all NWS Offices in the Central Region, (This includes all the NWS offices that issue warnings in Iowa). This …
State Basketball and Snowstorms
Whenever the Boys and especially the girls are playing at the State Basketball tournament in Des Moines, there always been a very good chance of a major snow storm based on history over the last few years. A major snow storm on March 14th 1959 stranded spectators at Veterans Memorial Auditorium after Gladbrook had beaten …
In Like a Lamb
March has come in like a lamb across Iowa. Clear skies and cold temperatures blanketed the state. Temperatures at mid-afternoon were in the teens where snow still blankets the ground in western Iowa to the 20s and 30s in the eastern part of the state. A gradual warmup will take place this week ahead of …
Precip Moving Out
Rain (at times mixed with sleet and snow to the north and embedded thunderstorms to the south is beginning its exit out of the state this afternoon. At 3:30 most of the precip was east of US Hwy 63 except in Ottumwa and Bloomfield where thundershowers continued to persist. The heaviest showers and storms were …
Atypical of February
Above is a map of lightning strikes that have taken place between Noon and 2pm. Most of the lightning has been concentrated on the midwest including Iowa. Some of the thunderstorms have produced sleet and even some heavy snow in Minnesota. This is very similiar to a complex of thunderstorms usually seen in late spring …
Numerous Thunderstorms
Numerous Thunderstorms are moving across the eastern part of Iowa. Several Severe Thunderstorm Warnings have been issued this morning and this afternoon. The most severe storm currently is SW of Ottumwa moving NE at 50mph. Dense Fog Advisories continue in SE Iowa, but areas outside the advisory area have also seen visiblities greatly reduce over …
Storm Notes
The National Weather Service has changed the advisories and watches and warnings. A Winter Storm Watch remains in effect in NE Iowa, (This will likely change in an hour or so, when the morning discussion is issued by the National Weather Service in LaCrosse. A Winter Storm Warning has been issued that will go into …