DID YOU KNOW????? AN AREA FROM AMES TO DES MOINES, TO OTTUMWA AND UP TO CEDAR RAPIDS, AND BACK TO DES MOINES HAS HAD 6-9 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL RAINFALL SO FAR FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST.........
COOL DOWN - AND A BIT DRYER!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE'LL SEE COOLER TEMPS THRU MID WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE GREAT LAKES AND GIVES US A DRYER/COOLER EAST-NORTHEAST FLOW. THE ONLY FLY IN THE OINTMENT WILL BE A WEAK UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVING OUT OF THE DAKOTAS LATE MONDAY/EARLY TUESDAY - EXPECT ONLY ISOLATED AREAS OF SHOWERS IN CENTRAL IOWA AS THE SYSTEM PASSES POW COUNTY THRU THE MORNING ON TUESDAY......HIGH PRESSURE WILL GRADUALL WORK IT'S WAY SOUTH AND EAST BEFORE ANCHORING ITSELF OVER THE SOUTHEAST U.S. BY MID WEEK.....THIS WILL SWITCH US BACK INTO A SOUTHERLY FLOW - INCREASING OUR TEMPS AND MOISTURE ONCE AGAIN. THE SAME HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD KEEP SYSTEMS MOVING INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST TO TRACK WEST TO EAST ALONG AND NORTH OF THE IOWA/MN BORDER THRU THE WEEK - KEEPING US DRY AND MUCH WARMER INTO NEXT WEEKEND AND BEYOND........
21 AUGUST 2010 EXTENDED FORECAST
TODAY THRU MONDAY 21ST THRU 23RD - EARLY MORNING FOG TODAY AND SUNDAY WILL LIFT BY MID MORNING EACH DAY - THEN PARTLY CLOUDY - TEMPS MID 80'S
TUESDAY 24TH - MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH ISOLATED MORNING SHOWERS - THEN PARTLY CLOUDY - TEMP NEAR 80
WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY 25TH/26THTH - PARTLY CLOUDY - TEMPS LOW 80'S
FRIDAY/SATURDAY 27TH/28TH - PARTLY CLOUDY WITH GUSTY SW WINDS - TEMPS NEAR 90
SUNDAY/MONDAY 29TH/30TH - PARTLY CLOUDY WITH ISOLATED TSHOWERS MONDAY
On this day in Iowa weather history...
2004: Unseasonably cool weather spread across much of Iowa with temperatures dipping into the upper 30s in northern sections of the state during the early morning hours. The lowest temperature of 36 F was recorded at Cresco, Estherville, Independence, Mason City, and Spencer. This was the earliest in the season that a temperature so low had been reported in Iowa since 1964.
POSTED ON WWW.TALKPOWWEATHER.BLOGSPOT.COM - 9 AUGUST:
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................
POSTED TODAY, 21 AUGUST:
MINNESOTA has lead the US in tornadoes this year! This is because there has been such a northward warmth and lower surface pressures - relative to the higher pressure in the southern U.S. This means more than normal instability further north. This is NOT a hot dry summer, but hot and "wet" in many places, (Esp here in Iowa) and wet means a fight in the atmospere....( also means look out.. the next coming season will be COLDER than normal) Many of us in areas that have been so wet in the plains may be getting a prelim to a winter where there is heck of alot of snow. This looks like a heck of a snow winter setting up to me for the Northwest U.S. coast - then easterward into the western Great Lakes, and eastward. Like I said on the 9th of August: 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........WE SHALL SEE!
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