The National Weather Service in Des Moines has issued a Winter Storm Watch which will go into effect at Noon on Friday and expire at Midnight Saturday morning. Counties included in this watch are, Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clarke, Crawford, Dallas, Davis, Decatur, Greene, Guthrie, Jasper, Lucas, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall, Monroe, …
Category: Winter Weather
The Disappearing Snowpack
The First image is the snowpack across the state of Iowa a week ago. The last image shows the snowpack as of this morning. As you can see, almost the entire state has no snowpack remaining (outside of a few piles of snow here and there). This will change however on Friday and Saturday with …
NWS Omaha Issues Winter Storm Watch
The National Weather Service in Omaha has issued a Winter Storm Watch which will go into effect at 6am Friday and will be in effect until Midnight Saturday morning for the following counties in Iowa, Monona, Harrison, Shelby, Pottawattamie, Mills, Montgomery, Fremont and Page. SNOW…HEAVY AT TIMES…SHOULD BEGIN TO OVERSPREAD THE WATCH AREA FRIDAY MORNING …
Welcome Back to Winter
The calendar still says its winter, so the time has come for winter to return to the state this week. A storm is expected to move into the state on Friday. Snow, possibly heavy at times will fall Friday into early Saturday. There could be significant accumulations with this storm, with the possibility of at …
Wind Chill Advisory Tonight
A Wind Chill Advisory has been issued until tomorrow morning for the following counties, Osceola, Dickinson, OBrien, Clay, Buena Vista, Mitchell, Howard, Winneshiek, Allamakee, Floyd, Chickasaw, Fayette, Clayton, Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Jones, Linn, Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Grundy, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldt, Kossuth, Marshall, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Tama, Webster, Winnebago, …
Historical WX: The Arctic Cold of 1996
A massive arctic high settled into the upper midwest from January 30th through February 4th in 1996. Temperatures nosedived below zero and stayed there for up to a week in some places. Schools were closed statewide in Minnesota and many schools in Iowa were closed during the peak of the cold spell on the 1st …
Another Cold Day
Temperatures at mid-afternoon were barely above zero in NE and EC Iowa while in the teens in the western half of the state, after morning lows that bottomed out between 0 in SW Iowa and -15 in northern Iowa. A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued in SW and WC Iowa beginning at 6pm this …
Changing Weather
Winter Weather Advisories have been issued until mid afternoon for blowing snow with the gusty northwest winds ushering the cold air in. The counties in the Winter Weather Advisory include, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Greene, Sac, Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Grundy, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldt, Kossuth, Marshall, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Story, …
Historical WX: January 24-27th 1967
After a bitter arctic blast, I thought it was time to look at a warm day from the past in the state of Iowa. On January 24th 1967, a large storm system was developing in the central Rockies. By noon the center of the low pressure system was moving over the central portions of Iowa. …
Blowing Snow This Evening
A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued until 10pm this evening for the following counties in Iowa, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Benton, Linn, Jones, Jackson, Iowa, Johnson, Cedar, Clinton, Muscatine, Scott, Keokuk, Washington, Louisa, Jefferson, Henry and Des Moines. Gusty winds over 25mph are blowing the light fluffy snow around this evening. Visibilities will be reduced …