High pressure will move overhead tonight bringing clear skies and light winds. These conditions combined with the cold air already in place will allow temperatures to rapidly cool off tonight. Overnight temperatures are expected to fall below freezing and remain below freezing for several hours. A National Weather Service freeze warning has been issued for areas of the state that have not already had a freeze yet this fall. Temperatures are expected to rebound into the mid 50s to mid 60s Friday as winds shift around to the south.
28 OCT 2010 EXTENDED FORECAST
Today 28th - Dry - Breezy - High Temp 50
Friday and Saturday 29th/30th - Dry - High Temps 55/65 Low Temps 28/32.
Sunday and Monday 31st/1st - Showers Sunday/Dry Monday - Highs 56/50 Lows Mid 30's.
Tues Thru Sat 2nd Thru 6th - Dry - Breezy - Highs Mid 50's - Lows in Low/Mid 30's.
Sunday 7th - Showers
Monday and Tuesday 8th/9th - Dry
Wed 10th - Snow Showers
On this day in Iowa weather history...
1925: Snow fell across about the southern half of Iowa on October 27-28 following a statewide snowfall that had occurred just a couple of days earlier. Two-day accumulations on the 27th-28th included 2.0 inches at Corning and Keosauqua, 3.0 inches at Mount Ayr, 3.4 inches at Keokuk, and 6.0 inches at Clarinda. Unseasonably cold temperatures also settled across the state over the last several days of the month. Des Moines easily recorded its three coldest October temperatures ever in three consecutive days from the 28th-30th, the low of 7 F on the 28th still standing as the station October record today. The month would finish as the coldest October on record at Des Moines with an average temperature of only 41.6 F. Several stations in Iowa fell to or below zero on the 28th including readings of 0 F at Rock Rapids and Rockwell City, -1 F at Onawa, and -2 F at Logan and Webster City. The all-time Iowa October low temperature record would be reached at Inwood on the 29th.
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