12 APRIL 2010 EXTENDED FORECAST

12 APRIL 2010 EXTENDED FORECAST

CLEAR SKIES PREVAILED OVER THE SOUTH HALF OF IOWA...WHILE CLOUDS INCREASED OVER THE NORTHWEST. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED AROUND MIDNIGHT OVER NORTHWEST IOWA AND SPREAD INTO THE NORTH CENTRAL
COUNTIES BEFORE DAWN AROUND FORT DODGE WEST AND NORTH.

A WARM FRONT EXTENDED NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHWEST IOWA THIS MORNING. THE FRONT WILL LIFT NORTH... A COLD FRONT WILL DEVELOP OVER THE ROCKIES TONIGHT AND MOVE INTO IOWA ON WEDNESDAY BEFORE DISSIPATING. A STRONGER COLD FRONT WILL DROP SOUTH ACROSS THE STATE THURSDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO THE NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT TODAY. BY THIS AFTERNOON...RAIN WILL BE RESTRICTED TO NORTHERN IOWA (MAINLY NORTH OF HWY 30 AND WILL BE CENTERED ALONG NRN IOWA BORDER TONIGHT. SOUTH WINDS WILL BRING WARMER AIR NORTH BEHIND THE WARM FRONT. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S TO LOW 80S ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TUESDAY OVER IOWA AND AREAS SOUTH...WITH 60S TO THE NORTH.

THE COLD FRONT FROM THE ROCKIES WILL BRING ANOTHER CHANCE OF RAIN WEDNESDAY TO THE NORTHWEST HALF OF IOWA...AND OVER THE STATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL ONLY FALL A FEW DEGREES TUESDAYS HIGHS.

THE RAIN WILL BE PUSHED TO THE SOUTH OF THE STATE LATER IN THE WEEK WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE SECOND COLD FRONT. ITS PASSAGE WILL BE MORE NOTICEABLE AS TEMPERATURES WILL BE AROUND 10 DEGREES COOLER FRIDAY INTO THE WEEKEND. SKIES WILL BE PARTLY CLOUDY WITH BEST CHANCE ANY PRECIP AT ALL SOUTH OF HWY 92........


TODAY AND TUES 12TH/13TH - PARTLY CLOUDY WITH GUSTY SW WINDS - BECOMMING WINDY TUESDAY - TEMPS 75/80

WED 14TH - INCREASING CLOUDS - SHOWERS/THUNDER BY AFTERNOON - WINDY - TEMP 75

THURSDAY 15TH - MOSTLY CLOUDY -SHOWERS/THUNDER - SHOWERS ENDING NORTH TO SOUTH OVERNITE - TEMP 74

FRIDAY THRU MON 16TH/19TH - PARTLY CLOUDY - TEMPS COOLING TO LOW 60'S OVER WEEKEND

TUES AND WED 20TH/21ST - PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY

THURS THRU SAT 22ND/24TH - CLOUDY - RAIN/THUNDER (POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN EVENT SETTING UP)

SUN THRU TUES 25TH/27TH - PARTLY CLOUDY

WED 28TH - MOSTLY CLOUDY - SHOWERS

WEATHER IN THE NEWS: GRINNELL, Iowa -- MY OPINION????? THIS SHOUD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED....
Four Grinnell College students out for a run Tuesday were caught outside in a hail storm and had to be taken to the hospital.
Pat Crawford told KCCI that she and her husband were driving near Grinnell when they found one of the students along the road. "We saw right up here, there was a kid in the road looking like he was flagging things down. And you could tell he was a runner because he had the running shorts on, he was barefooted, and he looked pretty beat up," said Crawford.

The student told Crawford that he, another man and two women tried to hide in a ditch when the storm hit, but they were forced to seek shelter when the hail became too intense. They were also worried they might drown as water started flooding into the ditch. "They thought it was a tornado, which a lot of us thought it was a tornado. So they laid in the ditch, which was a good idea but they were just getting the tar beat out of them and the ditches were filling with water, so they knew they couldn't stay there," said Crawford. The students found a nearby empty house to hide from the storm in, said Crawford.

Runner's body covered by welts after hail storm hit.
The students were covered in red welts after being pounded by the hail. Crawford and her husband loaded the runners into their van and took them to the hospital. The Grinnell College cross country coach met the students at the hospital.
One of the students required X-rays to check for broken bones. They were all treated and released from the hospital.
Crawford said she had never seen anything like it. "That's why I took the picture. It was unbelievable. I've never seen a human body that looked that beat up and they were still walking around," said Crawford.

There were also high school students outside when the storm hit, including the boys soccer team. We're told some players were slightly hurt. There was also damage at the tennis court. Storm spotters in the area reported 1 to 1.5 inch hail.