NOAA has released their annual spring outlook: and it look’s Iowa has a much better year in store. Temperatures across the region are anticipated to be above normal for much of the spring season, drought improvement, and even a bit of flooding. Snowstorms during the past month have contributed to above median precipitation across the upper Mississippi …
Severe Weather Awareness Week: Flash Flooding
With Severe Weather Awareness Week beginning today, each day we will be focusing on different topics. Today, our main focus is flash flooding. Each year, more deaths occur due to flooding than from any other thunderstorm related hazard, resulting in more than 140 fatalities each year. Most flash floods are caused by slow moving thunderstorms, thunderstorms that …
Iowa Weather Report March 25th 2013
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOy8lmaWAdk&w=480&h=360] COLD START TO LAST WEEK OF MARCH: A few flurries will fly across the sky today mainly in the eastern and southern counties of the state. There will be no additional accumulation with this. Skies will remain cloudy with highs still below average in the 30s. The colder than average temperatures continue into …
Spring finally arriving! Significant warm up and decreasing snowcover this week as calm weather is expected with temps rising each day, 30s, 40s then 50s a real possibility by the end of the week! Updated X1
Regional Weather view After a very long winter with snowstorms lasting through most of this month, spring is finally going to show its face here in the Upper Midwest. A high pressure system will bring calm weather to the region through the week and the jet stream will be moving northward. This will finally bring …
WXTEST: 2013 Severe Weather Awareness Week includes Tornado Drill
Written by the National Weather Service in Des Moines ************************************************* The Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division and the National Weather Service have declared the week of March 25th through March 29th, 2013 Severe Weather Awareness Week. Severe Weather Awareness Week is an annual event to remind Iowans that severe weather is part of …
Iowa Forecast Discussion March 24th 2013
VIDEOS RESUME TOMORROW SNOWY SPRING SUNDAY: Snow will continue over much of the state today with the heaviest snow likely falling near the Iowa Missouri border. The heaviest snow band will be across central Missouri into Central Illinois around Columbia to near St Louis to Springfield and Decatur on eastward. Amounts here will range from …
Iowa Forecast Discussion March 23rd 2013
NO VIDEOS UNTIL MONDAY SNOWIER SOUTH: Clouds will be on the increase today as a storm system will move to our south. Snow will likely break out by this evening into the overnight hours across the southern counties of the state. This will overspread much of the state with some light snow, with moderate snow …
Iowa Forecast Discussion March 22nd 2013
NO VIDEOS UNTIL MONDAY MARCHING THROUGH A SNOWY IOWAY: It may be springtime, but winter wonderland is going to greet some across the southern and eastern counties of the state this coming weekend with some accumulating snow. The GFS still is showing the center of the storm well to the south and southeast of the …
Iowa Forecast Discussion March 21st 2013
NO VIDEOS UNTIL MONDAY BYE BYE STORM: The GFS has finally gotten with the rest of the models on keeping the storm south of the state this weekend. The southern tiers of counties may get clipped with some light snow or flurries with perhaps a very light accumulation there Saturday night into Sunday. Otherwise it’s …
Iowa Forecast Discussion March 20th 2013
NO VIDEOS UNTIL MONDAY CALM BUT COLD: It may say Spring arrived this morning at 6:02am, but somebody forgot to tell Mother Nature, readings are going to be well below average for the next several days with high pressure nearby and readings stuck in the 20s and 30s for highs with lows in the single …