Category: Gardening

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June 12th Severe Weather Report. Damaging Winds and large hail reported locally

Video of strong winds from a storm in New Hampton,IA June 12th. Some residents of the area are dealing with damage from a round of severe thunderstorms that developed yesterday afternoon evening both in Southern Minnesota and across North Iowa. The cause of the severe weather was an usually strong low pressure system and stationary …

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Current weather condtions and forecasts and interesting facts

Image from Iowa Environmental Mesonet Starting off this morning with current temperatures we have the warmest conditions taking place in the southern part of the state where it is currently in the middle 60s. The coolest conditions can be found in the northern part of the state where temperatures are 10 degrees cooler in the …

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May 31st flooding, Severe thunderstorm and reported tornado in the Floyd area.

Rainbow on the back side of the Floyd Tornado storm cell. May 31st Lime Springs,Iowa The area was again rocked by several waves Severe Thunderstorms Friday May 31st, this time as a sharp cold front pushed through the area. The front was a slow moving front which allowed for multiple waves of severe thunderstorms to …

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May 29th-30th Severe Storms causing wind damage and widespread flooding on area rivers and streams

 Severe storm line approaching Cresco May 29th 2013 A very active stretch of weather for the area these past couple days. The latest round of weather was with a warm front/boundary that set up west of the area and was the focus for showers and thunderstorms late in the day north of Des Monies developing …

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Very active weather ahead. Storm systems arrival is expected to bring muiltple problems to the area including Severe Weather heavy rainfall and flooding.

Regional Weather View A very potent and active weather system will produce a wide range of issues for the Upper Midwest this weekend. With the weather pattern is set up the way it is currently, several waves weather are expected to pass through the region bringing concerns of heavy rainfall and river flash flooding and …

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Welcome to Iowa introduction! Active weather with Severe storms with heavy rain major river flooding and sigificant wind damage in many areas.

Major river flooding on the Upper Iowa River at Chester May 20th 2013 I have moved to Iowa, unfortunately I already have to start reporting weather. While I was offline moving to Iowa severe weather and flooding impacted Southeast Minnesota and Northeast Iowa from a slow moving low pressure system moving across the region. Sunday …

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Graduation time! Disruption in service as I move and New blog area defined!

Graduation is upon me and I will be walking to receive an associates degree in horticulture sciences tomorrow Thursday May 16th ending my college career. I am very proud of my newly received education and think it really helped my put my past knowledge together nicely and has made me a rounded professional in Horticulture. …

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Spring growth update # 3 Mid tree and late tree Leaf out begins Magnolias and Forsythias in full bloom!

Royal Star Magnolia May 7th 2013 Spring growth is continuing this week. Weather has been up and down, we had 2 80 degree days here in Rochester, then Thursday it was only 58.F, there was plentiful sunshine some days and an all day rain 1.20″ fell on Thursday. In bloom this week, Magnolias have bloomed …