[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQzeso8anT8&w=480&h=360] EXCESSIVE HEAT: Several days of very hot weather in store for the state and region. Excessive heat warnings are in effect beginning this weekend and lasting well into next week for a large portion of the state. Several more counties may be included in the warning or in a heat advisory later this …
Extreme Heat and Burn Bans Update
…Burn Ban in effect for Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll (22nd at 8AM), Cass, Cedar, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Clayton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd (23rd at 8AM), Franklin, Fremont, Greene, Hardin, Henry, Howard, Humboldt, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Lee, Linn, Lyon, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall, Mills, Montgomery, Muscatine, Page, …
2012 Drought: Burn Bans Expanding as of July 20th
Counties are beginning to mount with burn bans across the state. Here are the current list of counties as of Friday morning, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Calhoun, Cedar, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Clayton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Fremont, Greene, Hardin, Henry, Howard, Humboldt, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Lee, …
Iowa Forecast Video 7/20/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZM6Mo1KX70&w=480&h=360] HEAT BUILDING: It’s becoming a broken record of continuously repeating the same forecast over and over again. If it was for rain, it would be a welcome forecast, but unfortunately it’s for more heat and humidity through at least mid-week next week if not longer. Temperatures will run back up into the 90s …
July 18th Severe Storms. High winds and hail impacting west and wouth parts of the area,
Severe storms with high winds and large hail impacted parts of the area Wednesday July 18th. The areas most impacted were Dodge, Mower and Fillmore counties. The cause of the storms was an eastward moving boundary into a very warm unstable airmass. A cell that developed in Central Dodge County near Dodge Center quickly became …
Drought Update: All of Eastern Iowa in Severe Drought
Iowa Forecast Video 7/19/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81jZSksIW5A&w=480&h=360] HEAT AND MORE HEAT: More of the warm weather will continue for at least another week with temperatures well into the 90s and perhaps a few more triple digit readings as well. Muscatine yesterday hit 106, while several other locations in southern Iowa also made it above 100. The northern counties were spared …
Possible Watch for Northeastern Iowa
Forecasters at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma are currently monitoring the Northeastern portion of our viewing area for a Severe Thunderstorm Watch. A new boundary layer has setup shop thanks to storms this morning in Central Minnesota reaching down to Algona, along with another boundary layer over Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa and …
Iowa Forecast Video 7/18/2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSpQ7WVzIVY&w=480&h=360] ISOLATED RAIN: The chances of rain today and tomorrow are going to be at best isolated and many people may not even get a drop of rain either day. Temperatures will cool in the northern counties today and tomorrow before the heat returns in those areas. The southern counties won’t really lose the …
Boone County now served by Fort Dodge Weather Radio Transmitter
From the National Weather Service Des Moines website: Boone county residents (especially residents in Northwest Boone county), may now tune their receivers to WXK-84 broadcasting from Fort Dodge. This broadcast will now provide severe weather Watches and Warnings for Boone county. WXK-84 at Fort Dodge broadcasts on 162.400 MHz. Boone county has been, and will …