The weekend was very pleasant across the state. Temperatures were near to slightly above average for early to mid September, with readings on Sunday in the low to mid 80s. The one exception to the picture perfect weekend was a severe thunderstorm that moved through the Tri-State region late Sunday afternoon. Strong winds were reported …
Stormy Friday PM
Looks like a stormy end to the work week today, with numerous showers and thunderstorms traversing the eastern counties of the state. This will likely lead to some late starts to some of the football games later this evening. The storms could be strong but aren’t expected to be severe at this time. Some brief …
Partly Sunny Friday ahead of a system, Rain chances for Saturday, Sun back for Sunday.
Regional Weather Conditions The Upper Midwest has been enjoying quiet conditions for the past couple days, but Rain chances will increase ahead of a weak cold front, This system will moved through fast and bring Clearing weather for Sunday. New Local View Map showing Fridays weather conditions. Note, I’ve redone the local weather view map …
Football Week #3 Forecast Video
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ots9zSD_g&hl=en&fs=1] Here is the forecast for the Friday Night High School Football Games, plus the forecasts for the Iowa-Iowa State Game at Kinnick Stadium and the Northern Iowa-North Dakota State Game at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
Strong weather system, rain and strong winds across the area Tuesday.
Strong winds causing whitecaps on Lake Magnor September 8th. A strong weather system effected the area Monday and Tuesday of this week. It started off as a weak low pressure, that strengthened and developed over South Dakota, This low pressure system had several fronts that went through causing at first showers and thunderstorms with heavy …
Rain and Wind from Hermine on the way
It’s looking like the end of the week will be quite rainy and breezy across the state with remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine moving slowly NE toward the state. Chances of showers and thunderstorms will begin to increase Thursday and last through into Friday night so some high school football games will be quite soggy. …
Trip to Georgia
I recently returned from a weekend trip (Saturday-Tuesday PM) to Atlanta Georgia to attend the NASCAR race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Leaving the Moline Airport Saturday morning, with jackets on and getting to Atlanta where the temperature was in the 80s was quite interesting. The dry air that had moved into the state of Iowa …
Calmer and Cooler Weather
Wind has been the big factor today, with winds gusting over 30-40mph most of the day. Winds have begun to die down this evening as High Pressure moves closer. This will also plummet temperatures tonight back into the 40s by Wednesday morning. Cool conditions will remain for the week, with a chance of showers and …
Severe Thunderstorm Watch #644 until 1am
The Storm Prediction Center has issued a Severe Thunderstorm watch effective until 1am Tuesday morning for the following counties, Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Howard and Winneshiek. Storms continue moving through the northeastern sections of the state this evening. The main threats from these storms will be from large hail and damaging winds. The main storms …
New Warning (Floyd, Chickasaw and Howard) until 8:15pm
BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 729 PM CDT MON SEP 6 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… EASTERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA… CHICKASAW COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA… SOUTHERN HOWARD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA… * …