15 AUGUST 2010 EXTENDED FORECAST

YET ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL PUSH ACROSS CENTRAL IOWA TONIGHT AND BRING ANOTHER SHOT OF VERY WELCOME COOLER AIR. THERE MAY BE A STRAY SHOWER ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONT AS FAR SOUTH AS CEDAR RAPIDS....

OPEN THE WINDOWS!!!! OVERNIGHT LOWS TONIGHT WILL DIP INTO THE MIDDLE 50'S!!!! HIGH TEMP TODAY WILL REACH 80. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING DRY CONDITIONS AND SEASONAL TEMPERATURES ON MONDAY - THEN A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS FORECAST INTO CENTRAL IOWA TUESDAY - EXPECT TSHOWERS AFTERNOON TUESDAY - THEN CLEARING FOR WEDNESDAY.

15 AUGUST 2010 EXTENDED FORECAST

TODAY/MONDAY 15TH/16TH - NICE, DRY AND COOLER - PARTLY CLOUDY - NO RAIN - TEMPS NEAR 80

TUESDAY/WED 17TH/18TH - MOSTLY CLOUDY/AFTERNOON TSHOWERS TUESDAY - PARTLY CLOUDY WED - TEMPS 75/80

THURSDAY/FRIDAY 19TH/20TH - INCREASE CLOUDS - TSHOWERS THURSDAY PM INTO FRIDAY - TEMPS MID 80'S

SATURDAY/SUNDAY 21ST/22ND - TSTORMS/HEAVY RAIN - THEN PARTLY CLOUDY SUNDAY - TEMPS NEAR 80

MONDAY THRU WEDNESDAY 23RD THRU 25TH - NICE AND DRY - TEMPS MID 80'S


On this day in Iowa weather history...

1988: A very hot and dry summer continued as temperatures rose above 100 degrees across much of Iowa on August 14-18 setting daily records at numerous stations. The hottest temperatures were recorded on the 15th and 17th with high temperatures on the 15th including 104 F at Centerville, Des Moines, Muscatine, Ottumwa, and Waterloo, 105 F at Fairfield, Fort Dodge, Lamoni, Webster City, and Winterset, 106 F at Jefferson, Keosauqua, Red Oak, and Washington, and 107 F at Iowa Falls and Sigourney.


WHAT WILL WINTER BRING????????
JUST AS WE'RE GETTING OUT OF THE HOTTEST DAYS OF THE SUMMER SO FAR, WE'RE ACTUALLY GETTING A FIRST GLIMPS OF WHAT KIND OF A WINTER WE MIGHT HAVE.

HERE'S A FIRST LOOK:

FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, TO JUST NORTH OF LAS VEGAS, THRU SRN UTAH TO DENVER, INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NW IOWA, AND INTO SRN MINNESOTA: BELOW AVERAGE TEMPS - ABOVE AVERAGE SNOWS.....

FROM NW IOWA, TO WISCONSIN - EAST OVER THE GREAT LAKES AND INTO THE NE U.S., SOUTH TO NRN KENTUCKY AND INTO SRN MO/NRN OK, AND BACK NORTH TO DENVER: THIS WILL BE THE WINTER BATTLE GROUNDS. IT WILL BE AN AREA OF EXTREMES. I WOULDN'T BE A BIT SURPRISED TO SEE HIGH TEMPS IN THE 60'S IN EARLY DECEMBER - WITH LOW TEMPS NEAR ZERO BY MID-MONTH. ANYTIME AN EXTREME SEASON OCCURS, EXTREME WEATHER IS ASSOCIATED. EXPECT OCCASIONAL HEAVY PRECIP TIMES, FOLLOWED BY EXTENDED DRY TIMES....IN THE END? WE SHOULD AVERAGE/NEAR NORMAL FOR HIGH AND LOW TEMPERATURES, AND NEAR NORMAL SEASONAL SNOWFALL. WE'LL JUST HAVE AN OCCASIONAL "SHOW-STOPPER" ALONG THE WAY...........

ELSEWHERE IN THE COUNTRY: SE U.S., SRN 1/4 OF U.S., AND SW U.S.: WARMER AND DRYER THAN NORMAL... IF YOU ARE A SNOWBIRD, IT WILL BE A GOOD WINTER TO GO SOUTH................