Another cold night is expected across the region tonight as a high pressure continues to track along the Iowa and Minnesota border. Low temperatures are expected to dip to the mid 20s to the low 30s Saturday morning with highs struggling to reach the mid to upper 60s. A Freeze Warning is in …
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Areas of Frost Likely Tonight across Northern Iowa
The National Weather Service offices across the state have issued Frost Advisories for overnight tonight as a high pressure system builds into the area this evening from Canada. Lows are expected to plunge into the upper 20s to mid 30s tonight with only a slight warmup for the highs into the 40s and lower 50s. The normal …
Freeze Warnings in Effect for the State Early Saturday Morning
After a cloudy, cold, and windy today across the state, it will be getting even colder overnight tonight. High temperatures today barely reached the mid to upper 40s north and 50s south. A northwest wind of 15 to 25 MPH with stronger gusts did not help matters, bringing wind chills down into the 30s. Temperatures …
Big Cool Down into the 30s for lows by early Saturday Morning
Lots of rain fell today across the region with rainfall ranging from one to three inches, with the highest total coming out of Lincoln, Nebraska at a whopping 8.5″! Around 2″ of rain was reported around the Des Moines metro with higher amounts to the west. Rain will continue lingering around the state through this …
Fall Color Report #1
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 …
September 13th cold temp report
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 …
September 9th storm report-Central Iowa
Southern Iowa is still dealing with the effects from flooding from our recent rains September 9th when a frontal boundary caused the storms to develop that dropped 3-5″ of rain in some areas, but especially in Madison and Warren counties. Flash flooding was reported in Winterset, Norwalk, Spring Hill and Indainaola areas and included the …
College Football Forecast Week #3
There are two very different stories for football this Saturday, one being a chilly and crisp Iowa (2-0) vs Iowa State (0-2) football game, and the other being a warm and tropical UNI (0-1) vs Hawaii (0-2) game. If I had a choice between the two games, I would definitely pick the latter. Not that …
September 4th warm temperature report
Today was a toasty and windy day across Iowa as strong southwesterly winds brought the highs into the lower to middle 90s. Heat index values were over 100.F. The warmth was thanks to a low pressure system to our north causing the warm air to surge in on winds that gusting to 30MPH at …