A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect across the northwestern counties of the state through the overnight hours of Monday morning. This is in regards to some sleet, snow and freezing rain that is currently falling in the area. Although amounts will remain light, generally under a tenth of an inch. Travel will and has …
Category: Winter Weather
Advisories Issued For Tonight
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory which goes into effect at Midnight tonight and will be in effect until 6pm Monday evening for the following counties, Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Grundy, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldy, Jasper, Kossuth, Marshall, Polk, Poweshiek, Story, Tama, Webster, …
Snow Accumulations Sun Night into Monday
Here is the latest snowfall forecast from the NAM Model run at 0z (6pm CT). It has forecasted a lot more snow for the northeastern sections of the state then will probably fall. The image shown above is the snowfall forecast based on the 10:1 ratio (1″ of precipitation (rain) equalling 10″ of snow) which …
Winter Precip Today
Radar fifteen minutes ago showed a large swath of radar returns across the western and central sections of the state. While most of this isn’t reaching the ground, some of it is, and in the form of snow, sleet and even some freezing rain. Temperatures are in the upper teens and lower 20s currently over …
Bitter Cold Back For Next Week
After a few model runs which showed that the cold air that would come into the state in the middle of next week wasn’t going to be as bad, the last few model runs have brought it back with a vengeance. Lows by Wednesday morning next week (seen above) could be well below zero across …
Bitterly Cold Wind Chills Tonight
The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Chill Advisory through Wednesday morning for the areas shaded in light blue on the map above. Temperatures below zero tonight along with a wind of 10-15mph will produce dangerous wind chills between -20° and -30° in the advisory area. Outside of the advisory area, wind chills will …
Snowfall Totals FINAL (Jan 9-11 2011)
Here are the final snowfall totals from this storm. (NOTE: This is as of 5:30pm 1/11/11)
Travel An Issue
The image above shows how bad the roads have gotten in the Des Moines Metro area. The road was closed westbound due to the semi accident (which you can see blocking the two lanes of the road). Numerous other accidents have occurred in and around Des Moines all morning and into the afternoon. If you …
Bitter Cold A Week From Now
Another in a series of bitter arctic blasts is expected to move back into the state by early next week. The last few model runs show a large polar high swinging SE into the US early next week dislodging the cold air near the North Pole and bringing it down to where we are in …
Snowy Roads
Roads in the western half of the state are mostly to completely covered in snow, while other roads in the central sections are partly to completely covered. Many of the roads in the eastern sections of the state are normal because of the lack of any snow that has fallen in those areas. These too …