A Blizzard watch remains in effect beginning Saturday afternoon and will be in effect until Sunday afternoon for the following counties in Iowa, Sioux, OBrien, Clay, Plymouth, Cherokee, Buena Vista, Woodbury, Ida, Osceola, Dickinson and Lyon. This is for the next storm. Other Blizzard watches and or warnings may be issued later today or tonight. …
Category: All of Iowa
Snow Amounts Dec 18th and 19th
Numerous reports are still coming in, but here is a list so far. More reports will come in throughout the day. The List on the left is snow amounts (some sleet was mixed in with some of the reports). The list to the right is the amount of freezing rain that fell. NOTE: There were …
Late Evening Reports
Several locations have reported as much as 1 inch of sleet and 1/4 to 1/2 of an inch of ice. Also several reports of thunder and lightning have been reported. There are several thunderstorms (with freezing rain and sleet) in the southern half of the state. These will move northward through the night. Roads are …
Thundersleet, Thunder Freezing Rain?
These are becoming more of a reality this evening and tonight as thunder and lightning are being detected in Nebraska and SW Iowa. This along with Thundersnow will be possible tonight which could lead to heavier totals than forecasted. Freezing rain or sleet is being reported at nearly all reporting stations south of US Hwy …
Evening Reports
Freezing rain has been reported in most of southern Iowa at this time. Amounts have been generally light so far, but the freezing rain intensity is increasing with a quarter inch per hour possible in southern Iowa, northern Missouri and central Illinois. The Storm Prediction Center has a Mesoscale disscusion suggesting that some thunder is …
Late Afternoon Look
The precip has begun to enter the state. Some light precip was scattered around the state, some of it not quite reaching the ground yet. No reporting stations at 4pm were reporting any precip, but that is likely to change in the next few hours. Of note, the next storm on Saturday is getting some …
Storm Developing
The major winter storm is currently developing in the southern plains at mid-morning. Clouds are beginning to overspread the state at this time. Travel should not be effected until mid-afternoon at the earliest. The precip will start out as freezing rain and sleet in the south and snow with some sleet in the north. Many …
Major Storm Thursday
A Winter Storm Warning has been issued for Thursday for areas north of Interstate 80. An Ice storm warning has been issued for areas south of Interstate 80. (Some counties in far western Iowa are still under a Winter Storm Watch) Snowfall accumulations will be between 6-10 inches north of Interstate 80 with heavier isolated …
A Look Towards Thursday
A Winter Storm Watch has been issued now for the entire state of Iowa for Thursday. It looks to be a very complex system coming in, with some freezing rain and sleet to begin with in the southern half of the state and snow to the north. It will evidentually switch to all snow before …
Now For Round 2
One storm out of the way that left a wide swath of 2-5 inches across the state, we now take a short intermission before round 2 hits the state Thursday into Friday and this one may be larger! A Winter Storm Watch has already been issued for the next storm. This is mainly in effect …