Snow continues to overspread the state at this hour with two primary heavier bands of snow – one with moderate snow from Omaha to Des Moines and through the Cedar Rapids area, and then another smaller, but heavier band around Creston, Osceola, and Maryville MO. Thunderstorms lurking south of Kansas City are pushing more moisture …

  The latest update here at 11:30 PM shows nearly all roads across the state are completely covered with either a slush or snow. There are some exceptions in northwest Iowa and southwest Iowa, but these will likely become fully snow covered later tonight. Note that many of the white or “dry” spots on the …

The latest road conditions as of 10:00 PM shows nearly all roads in the state, with the exception of some patches west of I-35 and east central and southeastern Iowa, are completely covered with either slush or snow. As snow continues to overspread over the entire state overnight, it should be an expectation to see …

Snow continues to overspread the state at this hour with the heaviest band currently sitting from Sioux City through Carroll, Ames, and north of Grinnell and lighter snow elsewhere. Roads are completely covered with snow for many areas west of I-35 from approximately Mason City to Spencer and south to Denison, Atlantic, and Ames areas. Another …

A potentially significant winter storm is expected to impact the area this weekend as a large area of low pressure tracks into the region by Sunday and collides with another system from the north. This complex will flood precipitation into the state, as it currently is already doing across Kansas with rain-snow mix falling this morning. …

You know you live in Iowa when you can have temperatures in the 50s and 60s for an extended period and then have a winter storm affecting the state over the weekend. Well, that’s the exact situation that will setup for the weekend. A large and broad storm system is ejecting from the Rockies tonight …

COLDER AND COLDER: The days of the warmer than normal temperatures are gone for a while and in to replace it will be readings more typical of late January which looks to then be replaced by Arctic air as we head into the beginning of February. Highs today will be early on in the 30s …

RAGBRAI announced the 2015 route this evening with stops in Sioux City, Storm Lake, Fort Dodge, Eldora, Cedar Falls, Hiawatha, Coralville, and Davenport — a similar route taken in 1973. More information on the route is available here. The Iowa Weather Network will be publishing route forecasts during this event, so make sure to tune …

As we continue to shiver and freeze across the state with temperatures struggling to keep in the single digits above zero, we are monitoring the next system set to impact the area Monday night and into Sunday. A broad area of arctic high pressure, currently sitting over Kansas, is expected to continue building into the …