Category: Gardening

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Sigificant snowstorm arrives to Eastern Iowa late Saturday night through Sunday. 5-8″ likely with white out condtions and blowing snow causing travel impacts. Arctic air arrives behind this feature with highs in the single digits.

Regional Weather view Top story of the regional weather is a storm system that is about to move through the Upper Midwest. This will cause widespread wintery travel impacts including heavy snows in Missouri Southeastern 2/3rds of Iowa, Northwest Illinois and Southern Wisconsin.Cities such as Kansas City, KS Cedar Rapids,IA and Madison,WI will be effected. …

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Wednesdays High Temperatures middle 40s seen

Tree of 5 Seasons Downtown Cedar Rapids December 18th 2013 Today was a much welcomed beautiful day in Eastern Iowa, we had sunny skies and southerly winds. The southerly winds pushed warm air into our area rising temperatures ranging from the upper 30s and middle 40s. The warm moved quickly across Iowa, but then slowed …

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Introducing a new weather map & Warmth ahead for the middle of this week, low to middle 40s for Wednesday and Thursday. Cooler next weekend, 20s-Full forecast issued.

Regional Weather View Across the region, a much anticipated warm up for most areas as the jet stream lifts briefly north into Minnesota. This will bring warmth northward with widespread 30s across Minnesota and 30s and 40s across Iowa with a chance of a temperature near 50. In Missouri and Kansas temperatures will warm near …

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December 10th-11th Snowfall totals and stats for the month

Iowan Winter Day December 11th 2013 Another snowfall immersed Eastern Iowa late last night into this morning. The cause of the snow was a quick, but potent clipper style storm that slide across Southern Iowa spreading snow across much of Iowa. The highest amounts and heaviest totals were centered in Central and Eastern Iowa along …

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Sunday Snowfall Forecast for Eastern Iowa, then 2nd blast of arctic air poised to move southeastward

Regional weather view for the upcoming week. Winter… That is one word to describe the weather for the next few days across the region. Right now the Upper Midwest is in the middle of an arctic airmass number 1. Now a new lower end strength Winter Storm will effect the Upper Midwest bringing widespread snow …

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Yesterdays warm temperature report/Wind and colder temperatures today

Garden on a mild foggy December 5th Day The past week day or so has been very changeable in terms of weather here in Eastern Iowa. We went from mile temperatures in the 40s and 50s which peaked Wednesday to highs as warm as the middle 50s in the far south to the middle 40s …

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Todays Snowfall Reports 1-2″ snowfall amount seen. White Thanksgiving likely

Snowfall earlier this morning Hiawatha,Iowa It’s starting to look a lot like Winter across Eastern Iowa, as a small but potent weather system left a blanket of 1-3″ of new snow across the area. The cause of the snow was a system on the heels of an arctic cold front which is about to move …

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Snow likely tonight into Monday. a couple inches possible, then 2nd arctic blast ahead Tuesday & Wed. Thanksgiving looks sunny & Chilly with good travel condtions.

Weather Map for Monday November 25th. Across the Midwest we have a Wintery-like pattern appearing with our 2nd arctic blast of the season already coming into play. A weak-fast area of low pressure will quickly slide across Iowa producing a quick band of snow which will drop a couple of inches, especially over Eastern Iowa, …