Iowa Weather Network Archives from 2008 to 2017
Picture taken on my 19th Birthday March 8, 2010. Well here it is. March 8th I am now 19! anyway, Last year on my birthday I took the opportunity to talk about what sparked my interest in weather. This time I would like to focus more on my other hobbies, lifestyle changes for me this …
photo showing patchy snow cover March 7th. Temperatures were warm and enjoyable Sunday. It was a perfect day to get outside as a mild air mass sat overhead behind a small system that brought drizzle last night. Where Skies cleared many places hit there first 50s of the season! The most common area for this …
Garden View. Showing the most grass I’ve seen since early December. A flip from Winter to Spring, just like that! seems to be what happened over the past two weeks. It has been a very Spring-Like week With warm temperatures and even Drizzly conditions March 7th. Everyday so far this March highs have been near …
A line of showers and thunderstorms has moved into the state early this evening. The storms are currently along a line extending from Ida Grove to east of Hamburg. The individual cells are moving to the north and slightly east at 30-35mph. There has been reports of some small hail with these storms. (Marble Sized …
My Backyard Thermometer. The past few days I’ve noticed my thermometer had a temperature reading higher then that of all the local NWS weather stations. But when my station shot up to a high temperature of 49.F today while my nearest NWS station reported a high of 39 I needed answers as to why. I …
The Iowa DNR has issued an Air Quality Advisory until 11am Friday morning for Black Hawk, Buchanan, Benton, Linn, Iowa, Johnson, Cedar and Muscatine Counties. FINE PARTICULATE LEVELS NEAR EPA HEALTH STANDARDS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST IN THESE AREAS UNTIL 11 AM CST FRIDAY MORNING. THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES RECOMMENDS THAT INDIVIDUALS WITH RESPIRATORY …
Regional View. The weather the rest of this week will continue to be Spring-Like and mild. On Saturday a weak system will move in and bring some light rain or wet snow showers to parts of the Upper Midwest. Temperatures will remain mild all 3 days with highs in the 40s everywhere. Local View. What …
Regional View. A High pressure system has kept our weather sunny and dry the past few days. This will continue for the next 3 day forecast period. Temperatures look very nice throughout all of the Upper Midwest. Away from the deep snow pack, highs will approach 40.F but in Northwest Iowa and Western Minnesota where …
Front yard February 26th. Snow depth the past 2 weeks has actually slowly fallen, It started out 10.50″ on the 15th of the month, but, with the strong late February sun and dry weather we’ve have since fallen to 8.50″ snow depth. I can see some brow patches in our yard next too tree trucks …
Reported Lows Thursday Morning. We had quite a cold spell since Wednesday. When an Arctic cold front came through and Cold high pressure came in behind this front making for clear and cold weather ( possible our last shot of arctic air?), Highs Wednesday were 10 degrees colder then when is to be expected for …