[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 …
Category: Drought
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 7/18/2012
[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 …
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 …
2012 Drought: Burn Bans Ongoing
There have been numerous views onto the Burn bans from last year so I will post the current burn bans onto this page beginning now and lasting throughout the rest of the drought however long it may last. The current counties that are under burn bans include Lyon, Plymouth, Howard, Chickasaw, Wright, Butler, Black Hawk, …
Iowa Forecast Video 7/15/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuyASfkDwfA&w=480&h=360] ENCORE FOR HEAT: Heat returns today and will last for a few days through the middle of next week when some slight relief is in store. Until that time, sunshine and temperatures well into the 90s with heat indices at or exceeding 100° will be likely across the state. RAIN HOPES: The next …
Iowa Forecast Video 7/14/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgC9cvWp9Ks&w=480&h=360] THE HEAT IS BACK: The heat is making a return with 90s and heat indices at or exceeding 100° once again. There is still a chance of some showers and storms today across the eastern counties of the state, but this will quickly move out and dry weather will reign through the middle …
Iowa Forecast Video 7/13/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ7mOtWUYAo&w=480&h=360] STORMY AND DROUGHT: The drought as was expected worsened across the state with over 60% of the state in moderate or severe drought. Some rain is expected today across the state but with it could come severe weather. The Storm Prediction Center has a slight risk of severe weather for today and tonight …