The warmup continues this week with temperatures hitting and even exceeding the 40 degree mark. Skies will remain mostly sunny allowing the snowpack to continue to melt slowly across the state. The next chance of any precipitation will move in on Saturday with a chance of rain at that time. The amounts as of now …
Update to Records in Waterloo for the Winter
…UPDATE ON VARIOUS SNOW RECORDS FOR THE WATERLOO AREA… …WATERLOO APPROACHING SOME TEMPERATURE RECORDS AS WELL… AMPLE SNOWFALL IN WATERLOO THIS WINTER HAS SOME SNOW RECORDS IN JEOPARDY OF FALLING. THE FOLLOWING ARE VALID THROUGH FEBRUARY 28TH UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF SNOW DEPTH…THIS IS JUST THE NUMBER OF DAYS THE SNOW DEPTH HAS …
Update to Records in Des Moines
…UPDATE TO VARIOUS SNOW RECORDS AT THE DES MOINES AIRPORT… …DES MOINES APPROACHING SOME TEMPERATURE RECORDS AS WELL… GIVEN THE AMPLE SNOWFALL THIS WINTER SEASON…DES MOINES IS CLOSE TO OR HAS BROKEN NUMEROUS RECORDS REGARDING SNOW…SNOWFALL AND SNOW DEPTH. CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF SNOW DEPTH…THIS IS JUST THE NUMBER OF DAYS THE SNOW DEPTH HAS BEEN …
A Calm Cool Week for Girl’s State BB
This upcoming week looks to stay quiet with little if any precipitation effecting the state. Temperatures will be in the 30s for highs most of the week, with lows in the teens to around 20. Typically the week of Girl’s State Basketball Tournament in Des Moines brings up the numerous times over the years that …
Sunny & Mild Spring-Like weather for early this upcoming week! highs in the 40s.
Regional View. A High pressure system has kept our weather sunny and dry the past few days. This will continue for the next 3 day forecast period. Temperatures look very nice throughout all of the Upper Midwest. Away from the deep snow pack, highs will approach 40.F but in Northwest Iowa and Western Minnesota where …
Updates on a few things, Snow depth, indoor spring flowers project and how the outdoor spring flowers faired in the cold.
Front yard February 26th. Snow depth the past 2 weeks has actually slowly fallen, It started out 10.50″ on the 15th of the month, but, with the strong late February sun and dry weather we’ve have since fallen to 8.50″ snow depth. I can see some brow patches in our yard next too tree trucks …
Cold Midweek! Thursday Morning Lows.
Reported Lows Thursday Morning. We had quite a cold spell since Wednesday. When an Arctic cold front came through and Cold high pressure came in behind this front making for clear and cold weather ( possible our last shot of arctic air?), Highs Wednesday were 10 degrees colder then when is to be expected for …
Severe Weather Guesses
With Spring just around the corner, severe weather will soon follow. It’s time for you the reader to take a guess as to when the state of Iowa will have its first Severe Thunderstorm Warning of the year. Pick the date and what county you think it will be issued for. Also we will guess …
Middle of the Night Notes
Cold and dry weather will be the norm for the next couple of days across the state. Tonight readings will drop back into the single digits above and below zero. This will be the last night of such an occurance at least for the next two weeks. A slow warm up in temperatures will begin …
Staying Dry but Becoming Warmer and More Pleasant.
Regional View. Looking like a Dry and Sunny weather pattern will continue across the Upper Midwest for the end of this week. Temperatures will warm as we go through the next 3 days though, becoming warmer as each day passes. Our stronger late February sun can be thanked for that, Highs will quickly warm into …