Tracking Weather Across the State
Call it the cloudy curtains that comes with melting snow. After weeks of frigid temperatures and plenty of snow, the state is finally enjoying a long period of weather above the freezing mark. But as that snow melts, fog is settling in. As you can see in the graphic to [...]
It seems like the snow is never going to stop for northeast Iowa. The areas hit hardest by most of the storms that have hit Iowa this year are under the gun for the worst again. A large portion of northern and eastern Iowa was upgraded to a Winter Storm [...]
Once again, another storm system is set to bring measurable snow to much of Iowa. In fact, as you can see in the graphic to the right, a Winter Weather Advisory is posted for every county in Iowa with the exception of Allamakee in the northeast corner. Snow is expected [...]
Call it a major reversal of fortune for the Upper Midwest. If computer models are to be believed today, a major winter storm set to strike parts of Iowa on Christmas Eve might not materialize. The latest runs show a much weaker system moving in that would drop only minor [...]
Once again, northern parts of Iowa are under a Winter Weather Advisory. This advisory runs from noon Monday and will stay in effect through Tuesday morning. Snowfall totals of 3 to 5 inches are possible in the area under this advisory, with locally higher amounts possible. The threat of snow [...]
With this morning’s run of computer models pinning down some slightly higher snow totals, the National Weather Service has opted to go with a Winter Weather Advisory for portions of eastern Iowa. You can see the area affected by this advisory to the right shaded in blue. This advisory generally [...]
Well it’s not the blizzard that much of Iowa saw over the weekend, but it’s enough to cause some problems Wednesday into Thursday. Before I get into our chances of snow and how much to expect, I want to mention a couple of quick things… First, my apologies for not [...]
Inside this story you’ll find our live coverage of a powerful winter storm striking Iowa today. Click on the chat window to enter our live discussion about today’s storm. There you can ask questions and submit your storm reports. You can also email photos of today’s storm to photo@iowachase.com December [...]
This is about as close to worst case scenario as we can get. As we’ve warned all week, this storm system was tough to track and remained unpredictable. That rings very much true this morning. The graphic to the right shows how most of Iowa is now under a Blizzard [...]
More often than not forecasters can really nail down expected snow totals over a certain area. This is one of those cases where that might not be the case. Late this evening, the National Weather Service expanded the Blizzard Warning to include a few more counties in northeast Iowa (highlighted [...]
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