Iowa Weather Network Archives from 2008 to 2017
We have received our 1st accumulating snowfall of the season yesterday into this morning here in central and south central Iowa. The snowfall is thanks to a system that spread a large band of snow spanning across a large area from southern Minnesota to northern Missouri. This snow is ahead of an area of very …
We have reached peak color here in Des Moines! Color is at its highest and and is not expected to get brighter here in southern Iowa. Even interesting to note, even though we have reached peak there is still a descent amount of green in some areas. About 90% of trees have turned color here …
Eclipse Animation of what the eclipse will appear like in Des Moines at it’s maximum coverage. Many are looking forward to partial eclipse that is set to occur in across large parts of the northern hemisphere on Thursday afternoon and evening. The eclipse will be caused by the moon casting the lighter, outer part …
Fall color continues to progress very fast here in southern Iowa. Color is now abundant and beautiful in all trees species. Maples are turning beautiful shades of burgundy, fire red,orange and yellow. Silvers maples and Hickories are turning golden yellow. Oaks are turning yellow and red. 63rd street between West Des Moines and Norwalk is …
Fall colors are continuing to progress quickly this week across the area. I would put Des Moines now at moderate color with 50% of the trees now showing at least some color. Now every city street has at least some color showing in some trees. Streets with Maples, Hackberries or Ash are beautiful and showing lots …
Fall color this week has picked up significantly now that cooler weather has made its way back into the picture. Sugar and Red Maples are starting to have an abundance of color. Soon those will be peaking. I’ve also seen Silver Maple just now starting to join the show turning yellow, Hackberry is also turning …
Fall color this week here in Des Moines is pretty much exactly where we were last week. We virtually made no progression in fall colors with the exception that I’ve seen a few more sugar maples turning orange and red. Over all I rate Low color for Des Moines with only 20% ( same as …
After a fast start to the fall color season, fall color progression has really slowed this week because of a spell of summer-like temperatures where we had several days in the low to mid 80s. This caused the trees that have turned to start dropping leaves quite fast, but delayed others from really turning. Ash …
Fall color is quickly starting across Iowa and color has become quite abundant in earlier changing trees. This change literally seemed to occur just in the past couple of days here in the Des Moines area. Tree showing color are strictly pretty much the ash species. They are turning colors of golden yellow in many …
This morning was a very chilly morning for Iowa and the entire Midwest, thanks to a huge area of high pressure which brought a large chuck of cold air southward across the middle of the country. Lows for the first time this season fell into the middle to upper 30s. Frost was reported in such …