The National Weather Service in Des Moines has issued a Winter Weather Advisory in effect until 6am Tuesday morning for the following counties in Iowa, Adair, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Dallas, Greene, Guthrie, Jasper, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Polk, Poweshiek, Sac and Warren. These counties have been added to the previous counties under this advisory. Snow, …
Category: Winter Weather
Freezing Rain Advisory Issued
The National Weather Service in Omaha has issued a Freezing Rain advisory in effect until 4am Tuesday morning for the following counties in Iowa, Pottawattamie, Mills and Montgomery and until 10am Tuesday morning for the following counties in Iowa, Monona, Harrison and Shelby. Total ice accumulations here should be under 1/4 of an inch but …
Winter Weather Advisory Expanded
The National Weather Service in Des Moines has issued a Winter Weather Advisory that will go into effect at Midnight tonight and be in effect until 6am Tuesday morning for the following counties in Iowa, Boone, Calhoun, Emmet, Hamilton, Hardin, Humboldt, Kossuth, Marshall, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Story, Webster and Wright. PRECIPITATION WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE …
Winter Weather on its way!
The National Weather Service in Sioux Falls has issued a Winter Weather Advisory which goes into effect at Midnight tonight and will be in effect until Noon on Tuesday for the following counties in Iowa, Lyon, Osceola, Dickinson, Sioux, O’Brien and Clay. A Winter Weather advisory has also been issued starting at 9pm tonight and …
Winter Weather Advisory Issued in NW Iowa
A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued beginning at Midnight and in effect until Noon Friday for the following counties in Iowa, Lyon, Osceola, Dickinson, Sioux, O’Brien and Clay. The following is from the NWS Sioux Falls: LIGHT TO OCCASIONALLY MODERATE SNOW WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO …
More on This Weeks Storm
A closed upper level low will move just to the south of the state Wednesday through Friday morning. This will lead to heavy rainfall amounts across the state with totals exceeding 3 inches mainly in the western part of the state, with at least 1-2 inches elsewhere. There is a wintery side to this storm …
When is the first Snow usually?
I had asked the IowaWX Blog’s Mysterious Meterologist about this topic as there has been numerous searches for this topic along with the first frost. They sent two maps that were produced by the NWS in Des Moines for when the first measureable snow and the first 1 inch snowfall usually occur. Now given that …
A look toward Winter
Here is a look ahead at Meteorological Winter (December-February). It looks like it won’t be a bad winter like this past one. I will note snow can and will fall before December 1st. There has been snow in Iowa as early as the first of October. Below is a snowfall map from NWS Sioux Falls …