Except for a few light snow showers or flurries this week, the weather will remain rather benign up until the weekend. Another cold night is in store tonight with single digits and teens for lows. Colder locales may dip below zero. Temperatures will steadily rise through the week with highs climbing to near or slightly …
Category: Winter Weather
FINAL Snowfall Amounts (12/3-4 2010)
This is the FINAL Total of snowfall amounts. (There could be a few more but they won’t be listed here). These amounts are as of 3pm Saturday Afternoon.
Road Conditions as of 5pm 12/3/10
Here is the current road conditions across the state. An update to this map is that US 52 from Dubuque to Sabula is completely covered in ice and snow.
Travel Conditions Deterioriating
This shows how travel has become impacted in the Quad Cities. This was taken a few minutes ago from I-74 at US Hwy 67 looking south toward the Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge (which you would be able to see in normal conditions). Travel is slowing down with snow beginning to accumulate on the road surfaces. This …
Midday Update on Snowstorm (12/3/10)
Here are the current advisories and warnings as of Noon Friday. A few counties have been added to the Winter WX Advisory and some counties in the NC sections of the state were upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning. Accumulations are still on target for as much as 5-7″ of snow in the NE. 2-5″ …
Winter Storm Warnings for NE Iowa
The National Weather Service in LaCrosse has issued a Winter Storm Warning effective this afternoon until Saturday afternoon for the following counties, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Allamakee, Winneshiek, Fayette, Chickasaw and Clayton. There is also a Winter Weather Advisory now in effect from Friday afternoon until Saturday afternoon for the following counties, Kossuth, Winnebago, Worth, Hancock, …
Winter Storm Watch Friday and Saturday
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Watch which will go into effect Friday afternoon and be in effect until Saturday morning (in NC Iowa) and Saturday afternoon (in NE and EC Iowa) for the following counties, Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Hancock, Kossuth, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Winnebago, Worth, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek, Allamakee, Floyd, …
December Welcomes You with Weekend Snow
It is now the beginning of meteorological winter, and although the temperatures feel like winter, most of the state (except the NW) don’t have a snow cover. That might change by Friday night into Saturday, with accumulating snow possible. The latest indications show that accumulating snow is possible north of an Algona to Muscatine line …
Freezing Rain Advisory until 4pm (now 6pm)
UPDATED at 3:50pm The National Weather Service in the Quad Cities has issued a Freezing Rain Advisory effective until 6pm for the following counties, Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Iowa, Jones and Linn. …FREEZING RAIN OVERSPREADING EASTERN IOWA THIS AFTERNOON… .A COMPLEX WINTER STORM SYSTEM WAS SPREADING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH FREEZING RAIN ACROSS EASTERN IOWA …
Travel Conditions 11/24/10 Early PM
Here are the latest travel conditions across Iowa as of 1:30pm, I-35 from Ames to the Minnesota border Travel is not advised Roads that are mostly covered with ice or sleet are as follows, US Hwy 20 from US 169 to US 65, IA Hwy 3 from US 71 to west of Shell Rock, US …