Iowa Weather Network Archives from 2008 to 2017
Spring is over and the humidity of another long Iowa summer has arrived. The foliage of Tulips and other spring flowers that once graced that landscape last month are starting to fade and the garden goes through a transition from spring bloomers to early summer flowers. Flowers during this season are very important to be …
Now is your chance to come help the Cumming Prairie remnant! As readers may remember this is the same remnant that I did numerous posts on last year. Warren County Conservation and Iowa natural heritage foundation as well as myself all helped to organize a volunteer effort to help restore this prairie back to its …
Spring continues to trek on and it’s not stopping for no one! We are on the spring seasons last flowers as spring bulbs give way to a flurry of other spring favorites including Crab apples, Redbuds as you saw last week and of course Lilacs which are in full bloom right now and have been …
What a beautiful time of year to be in our area! Mid spring is upon us and one can definitely tell as signs of spring’s beauty can be seen at every turn. Currently all of the mid spring flowering trees are in full flower even the well known Lilac is blooming and while these and …
We had the April showers last week with some thunderstorms and rain and we definitely now have the flowers! Unfortunately those thunderstorms came with several cold fronts that brought a roller coaster of temperatures and high winds leading to a couple of nights in which it froze hard. This cold weather really slowed things down …
To most people, trees just blend in with the everyday landscape and they can’t tell one tree from another and may go un noticed with most people’s busy lives. For example do you remember that small tree by the gas station? Chances are probably not because that tree just doesn’t hold a sigificant place in …
Cool weather even snow showers over the weekend put a damper on spring and really slowed things down, however it has warmed back up and today it was in the middle 60s putting everything is back on track, at least until the next snow comes tomorrow! Most noticeable this week are Crab Apple trees, they …
It may still be a week before the spring solstice but spring is marching on at a fast pace for us thanks to a very mild first half of the month. 60 and 70 degree highs have dominated the weather ( average is 50s ) this along with rain and storms the past two days …
A rush of spring warmth has ushered in a new season and with this new season comes my annual posts giving coverage of the arrival of spring to the area. Spring has officially sprung with several species of “early risers” in bloom including Crocus, Snowdrops and Winter Aconite. Several other spring favorites are showing up …
As the sun angle slowly increases and winter loses it’s grip on Iowa, many people catch themselves thinking of those warm days ahead, and we start to anticipate the starting the next season – spring! We are coming up on my favorite time of year, and what an exciting time to be here in Iowa. …