Regional weather view. A summer like pattern is developing across the Upper Midwest. A hot but dry airmass has made its way in. Tempetures will be in the 80s to 90 region wide for the rest of the work week. Then as a cold front moves through Thunderstorms could develop long this front which will …
Iowa Forecast Discussion 5/17/12
NOTE: My Computer crashed and therefore no video. This is being typed from my iPhone. MORE, MORE, MORE!: More pleasant weather is expected today with highs from the mid 80’s to upper 90’s with Partly Cloud skies. 2 AREAS WE ARE WATCHING: We are currently monitoring two precipitation windows for this week and next week. …
Travelogue 2012: A Steve Martin Kinda Day
Oh the rain had cometh and gone away from the start of the morning. A train ride to Washington DC was on the plan of attack. Before that came an interesting twist to the plot involving yours truly and a penalty which I will not go into. The rain stopped outside of NYC, although we …
Record High Temperature Tied at Des Moines
…RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE TIED AT DES MOINES IOWA… A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 91 DEGREES WAS REACHED AT DES MOINES IOWA TODAY. THIS TIES THE OLD RECORD OF 91 SET IN
Travelogue 2012: Rain and Mist
Going forward with the rain galoshes and smell of cut grass we made our way to Fenway Park in Boston for the Red Sox Game. They could have called it the Red Sox game in the mist. It did it almost the entire game. They honored knuckleballer Tim Wakefield at the game, made it Tim …
New Warning (Henry IL) until 8:00PM
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… EAST CENTRAL HENRY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS… * UNTIL 800 PM CDT. * AT 733 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 9 …
New Warning (Scott, Henry IL, Mercer IL, and Rock Island IL) until 7:45PM
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… SOUTH CENTRAL SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA… WEST CENTRAL HENRY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS… NORTHEASTERN MERCER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS… CENTRAL ROCK ISLAND COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS… * UNTIL 745 PM CDT. * AT 701 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER …
Iowa Forecast Video 5/15/12
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mZt330ARik&hd=1&w=480&h=360] PLEASANT WEATHER: Pleasant Weather will again prevail today and many more days to come with more seasonal highs in the mid to upper 70’s. This pattern should continue through Wednesday. SEVERE WEATHER: The Storm Prediction Center currently has a Slight Risk for Northwest Iowa today. I do not expect much with this as …
Tropical Weather….returns?
Late tonight I just happened to pop on to the National Hurricane Center website and I now see that we have a Tropical Storm brewing in the East Pacific. I laugh writing this, but below are some of the details on Tropical Storm Aletta, the first Eastern Pacific storm of the year. As of the …
Travelogue 2012: Too Rainy
As I type I’m in my hotel room in New Britain Connecticut, a suburb of Hartford. I went into New York state today for some business and ran into periods of rain throughout my time there. Wish we could have had some of this the week we were supposed to get heavy rain and didn’t …