STORMS ON THE WAY: Today will be bright and sunny across the state but a bit chilly with readings in the upper 50s to near 70 across the state. Clouds will be on the increase tonight ahead of the next storm system that will move into the area Wednesday into Thursday. This will bring some …
Flooding Possible Around Northeast Iowa
A Flood Advisory remains in effect for Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, and Winneshiek counties until 12:45 AM. Small stream flooding will continue with another half inch or so possible between now and midnight.
Iowa Weather Report April 21st 2014
THE WEEK AHEAD: We will have one storm moving out of the state today bringing some morning and early afternoon showers and storms to the eastern half of the state while the rest of the state will see slowly clearing skies. Highs will be cooler than they were on Easter with upper 60s to middle …
Spring growth update #5
Today was a beautiful day in Des Moines. We had a high of 85.F here in Fairmount Park, 84.F officially at the airport. Many people were taking advantage of Easter Sunday and spending time outside! Much progress has been made this week in terms of our season as temperatures have been very warm the past …
Strong Thunderstorms with Heavy Rain over Northern Iowa
At 6:51 PM, a line of strong thunderstorms with very heavy rains was along a line extending from near Mason City Municipal Airport to 7 miles south of Algona, and moving east at 30 mph. The line was essentially training and moving repetitively over the same locations. Pea size hail and torrential rains are possible …
Iowa Weather Report April 20th 2014
SOME RAIN CHANCES NEXT TWO DAYS: A frontal system will move into the state today and through the first half of Monday bringing with it a chance of some showers and thunderstorms. Most of the day will be dry in the southeastern third of the state with readings there in the 70s while the rest …
Iowa Weather Report April 19th 2014
EASTER WEEKEND: A warm weekend across the state with some chances of showers and thunderstorms becoming more numerous as we head into Easter Sunday. Today we will see plenty of sunshine once again with readings in the 60s and 70s. There could be an isolated thunderstorm in the northwestern counties in the late afternoon hours …
POLYGON Issuance #7 Fishing Through Minnesota Meteorology
In the 8th Issuance of POLYGON (actually the 7th), Randy Brock, the chief meteorologist from KTTC in Rochester MN joined the group. He is a native Minnesotan. He went to school at Metropolitan State College in Denver and then got his first job in the Texas Panhandle in Amarillo TX. He then came home to …
Iowa Weather Report April 18th 2014
INTO EASTER WEEKEND: Warmer weather will be in store heading into the holiday weekend, but some showers and thunderstorms are in the forecast especially for Easter as a new storm system moves into the state at that time. Today we will see plenty of sunshine with readings in the 50s and 60s across the state. …
Sincere Apology for Technical Issues Tonight
We would like to sincerely apologize for the excessive blog posts sent to Facebook, Twitter, and your inbox’s this evening. We had an unexpected malfunction in a plugin that caused posts that we imported (and backdated by a couple years) to be sent out without authorization. We have fixed this and will do everything we …