Here are the record reports from Tuesday morning. RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 408 AM CDT WED SEP 10 2008 …RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE SET AT BURLINGTON IA… A RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE OF 42 DEGREES WAS SET AT BURLINGTON IA YESTERDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 43 SET IN 1943. …
Hurricane Ike (In relation to Iowa’s Weather)
Below is the 12Z GFDL model run of Hurricane Ike at 126 hours out This model shows that the center of Ike will be over central Missouri. Another model, HWRF shows the center of Ike at 126 hours out in Illinois south of Chicago. In anycase, Ike will likely effect Iowa’s weather during the weekend, …
More Rain Ahead
Rain is expected to move back into the state on Wednesday and could stick around through the weekend. Rainfall amounts could be heavy given the continuation of rain for numerous days. Amounts over 2 inches for the next 5 days is likely with isolated higher totals. As of now, Hurricane Ike will not effect Iowa’s …
Frost Overnight, Crops and Plants Unharmed. Warming Up This Week
Mums September 9Th We had our first Frost of the season last night here at Clayton. The frost was light, and patchy. frost did not even form in our lawn, where buildings and trees kept it protected also, corn is unharmed so the growing season is still hanging on! as you can see in the …
Dense Fog Possible Towards Morning
With temperatures heading into the 40s tonight, there is a good chance for areas of dense fog. Visibilities maybe reduced to 1/4 of a mile in some places. It will be scattered around with the logical low lying areas having the best chance for fog. The fog should burn off by mid-morning and a sunny …
Flood Book Updates
Thought I’d put an update to the books being written about the Iowa Flood this past June. The book “Un-Natural Disasters” which is about the EF5 tornado in Parkersburg and the Floods of 2008 is in post production according to author Terry Swails and his wife Carolyn Wettstone who were interviewed by Ron Steele on …
Rain and Very Cool
It continues to rain light to moderately across the state this afternoon. The heaviest rain is in SE Iowa. West of Interstate 35, rain has tapered off to sprinkles or mist. There is some breaks in the clouds in extreme NW Iowa. Some sunshine is possible in that part of the state this afternoon while …
Patchy Frost Possible Tonight!!!
Image from http://www.crh.noaa.gov/wxstory.php?site=mpx There is a chances for isolated Showers and Thunderstorms today, with a low pressure trough passing by. chances for showers will linger into this evening then, most places will have clearing skies, this will cause the temps to drop to the upper 30s and low 40s Patchy Frost may form. patchy frost …
Rain Moving In
At just before 11:30pm Sunday, radar indicated some light rain moving into the NW part of Iowa north of Sioux City, some echos were also in east central Iowa (I think those aren’t reaching the ground ‘virga’) and a east to west line of heavier showers just south of the border in Missouri. Those heavier …
Sunday Evening Rain
Some very light rain is moving through the state, some of it is likely not reaching the ground or might be sprinkles or virga. There is a line of showers from Columbus Junction to Knoxville (where the heaviest rain is the state is falling) to Guthrie Center to Onawa. Amounts from this will likely be …