Those in the northern one-third of the state are beginning to see road conditions improve further. This trend should continue for the remainder of the state later in the overnight. However, travel is still not advised for most of east central Iowa with roads still completely covered for a large chunk of the state. Tow …
Power Outages – 2/1 3:15 PM
The heavy, wet snow falling across the state has been resulting in power outages in multiple areas. As of the time of this post MidAmerican Energy was reporting about 1000 customers without power in the state, and Alliant Energy is reporting about 6000 customers without power, with about 2,200 of those in Des Moines. With …
More Counties Under Tow Bans
Since the last update about 20-30 minutes ago, more counties have gone under tow bans including Hardin, Black Hawk, Grundy, Bremer, Butler and Franklin counties. Travel is not advised in a portion of eastern Iowa around Cedar Rapids and Iowa City at this time, but it is advisable that travel should be restricted to emergencies …
Road Conditions Update Sunday Afternoon: Stay Home
Roads are in terrible shape across the state with white out conditions reported in some areas. The best advice is not to travel the rest of the day and into tonight as conditions will not improve until later tonight when the winds begin to subside. There are many counties that are under tow bans at …
8:30AM: Heavy snow continues, Winds increasing
Snowstorm Cumming, IA 2/1/15 Morning Update: Here in Cumming just SW of Des Moines we have gotten 8″ of wet heavy snow causing tree branches to break. Evergreens are getting the worst. Snowfall totals are ranging from 8-10″ so far in Central Iowa including the Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo and Davenport metro areas to …
4:30 AM: Forecast Updated – 9 to 11″ for Most; Isolated 11 to 13″ Totals
3:30 AM: Heavier Snow Continuing
Snow continues to overspread the state at this hour with two primary heavier bands of snow – one with moderate snow from Omaha to Des Moines and through the Cedar Rapids area, and then another smaller, but heavier band around Creston, Osceola, and Maryville MO. Thunderstorms lurking south of Kansas City are pushing more moisture …
11:30 PM: Most Roads Completely Covered, Tow Bans for Central and SW Iowa
The latest update here at 11:30 PM shows nearly all roads across the state are completely covered with either a slush or snow. There are some exceptions in northwest Iowa and southwest Iowa, but these will likely become fully snow covered later tonight. Note that many of the white or “dry” spots on the …
10:00 PM: Nearly All Roads Completely Covered
The latest road conditions as of 10:00 PM shows nearly all roads in the state, with the exception of some patches west of I-35 and east central and southeastern Iowa, are completely covered with either slush or snow. As snow continues to overspread over the entire state overnight, it should be an expectation to see …
8:00 PM: Roads Completely Covered for Western Two-Thirds of State
Snow has overspread most of the state at this time. The only exception is southeastern Iowa where roads are still in decent shape however the precipitation will be changing over to snow in those areas in the coming hours. The rest of the state is seeing partly to completely covered roads in snow, slush and …