Regional weather view. It has been going a bit backwards in our seasons now, The main story for the weekend is a storm system passing through the Upper Midwest. The center of low pressure will pass through Iowa, spreading widespread rains across South/North Dakota, Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa. There is even the threat that  a …

Regional Weather View. A quiet weather patten to start the week will be in places across the region bringing moderately warmer temperatures and sunny skies. By Tuesday highs will be approaching 80 in Iowa.  Wednesday a frontal system will pass through bringing a quick shot of rain. Behind it its back to cooler air and …

Photo of the steady rain that occurred April 20th 2012 A storms system with a stationary front in Iowa caused a huge area of rain to develop across Southern Minnesota yesterday. This spread steady beneficial rains across the entire local area! The rain started around 11AM in many place, an increasingly got heavier as the …

Lilacs in full bloom April 18th 2012 There you have it Lilacs in Mid April! The Lilacs actually started bloom on the 9th of the month before that big cold snap arrived. I was stunned to see that most plants were fine and were not harmed despite us getting a freeze 3 nights in a …

Regional weather view. Quite an active and changeable pattern set up for the region to end this week. A series of weather systems passing through Minnesota and Wisconsin will bring mutiple rain threats over the next few days. Most of the rain will be in Northern Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. North of the passing systems …

Image from SPC A Moderate Risk! For severe weather has been pushed westward Sunday and it now includes the all of Southrn Minnesota, Northeast Iowa and Western Wisconsin. This includes the entire local area! The weather system that causes yesterdays bad weather in Kansas and Iowa will be impacting Minnesota today. Warm humid air that is starting to be …

Regional weather view. A significant and news making weather system will put an sharp end to the quiet weather in the Upper Midwest. A low pressure system and warm front will push across Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Southern Minnesota, Wisconsin and southern Illinois bring with in a severe weather risk as it passes through starting …

Regional weather view. A cold Canadian high pressure is causing problems with freezing temperatures across the entire region becuase this years growing season started extremely early. Through the middle of this week it will be dry lacking precipitation. Local Weather View  Local and Metro views. Hard Freeze Likely tonight and Tuesday Night.  The major topic …