There is a slight risk of severe weather for most of the state for Saturday and Saturday night. This will be mainly south of a Prairie Du Chien to Sioux City line. The main threats will be from large hail and damaging straight line winds. An isolated tornado cannot be ruled out especially in the …
2010 Football Forecast Video Week #9
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UCx5Yy6wEE&hl=en&fs=1] Above is the forecast video for the High School Football games, Friday night, along with the college football games for Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa on Saturday.
Wintery Precip Possible Late Next Week?
Above is the MOS data from the 0Z run of the GFS Model. It shows much cooler temperatures that we’ve been experiencing over the last few weeks. The Model run also shows a chance that some of the precipitation in the northwestern quarter of Iowa into Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota may become mixed with …
Chilly Thursday, then warming up with higher rainfall chances by Saturday. Thanksgiving Cactus getting buds! Pictures included.
Regional weather view, with location of Low and fronts for Saturday. The end of the week will end on a dry and quite chilly note for the Upper Midwest. Hard frosts are possible through all of Northern and Central Minnesota,Northern Wisconsin and Michigan. A system will being to approach Friday, but skies will be sunny …
Rainy Weekend
The abnormally dry streak across the state will likely end this weekend with a good chance of showers and isolated thunderstorms this weekend. Some rainfall could be heavy in areas that recieve a thunderstorm, otherwise rainfall will remain generally under a half inch or so. This would great news given the dry streak we’ve been …
Trees lost their leaves much earlier then last year. Compare photos
Compared photo of the Nearly leafless Front yard Oct 16th 2010 Most trees across the local area are already completely bare, many people have noticed how fast they turned and dropped. The fall color process went very fast. We went from Low color to peak in less then 2 weeks time! This was one of …
Winter Weather Next Week?
Forecast models are beginning to show a possible turn to winter weather over the state late next week. A large storm system is forecast to move thorugh the midwest at the middle to end of the week. Enough cold air will pour on the northwest side of the storm which will cause the precipitation to …
More Good Weather For Farmers
Another week of dry weather will continue across the state. This will be good for farmers who have yet to harvest their crops. The continued dry streak will last through the week before another chance of rain moves back in Saturday. Although the rain chances will be slight on Saturday, it likely won’t cause much …
Dry October Continues
As you can see on the chart, it has been a relatively dry October across not only the state of Iowa but across the upper midwest. Only Kansas City has had more than a quarter of an inch of rain this month of the sites shown here. Only Ames, Dubuque and Burlington have had more …
Turning a bit chilly upcoming days then slight rain chances Monday
Regional View We’ve got a cooler northwest flow pattern for us the next few days. It will be a bit chilly across the entire region, Monday a weak system will bring some slight rain chances to mainly Minnesota and Wisconsin, It will clear out by Tuesday and temperatures will turn more fair for this time …