13 April 2011 Extended Forecast

Picture Above:  Millersburg Iowa City Park.

Picture Taken From SW Corner of Square "Around" 1930.

Check Out The Chain Around The Park - It Remains Today.

I Wonder Happened To The Light Posts?

Spring has spring as Temps reach 70 again today!  Showers will develop overnite tonite as the system moves into Western Iowa.  A shot at Isolated showers will continue thru the day Thurs - but the brunt of the heaviest and more persistent showers and storms will be Friday when up to 3/4" of rain could fall by late in the day.

Next week is looking like a cool, breezy, and wet time frame after Tuesday.  Temps will drop below normals and precip is looking well above normal.  3 inches of rain from Tuesday to early weekend may be conservative......


Today and Thurs:  Dry and Breezy Today - Showers/Breezy overnite Tonite into Thurs - Temps 70/60.

Fri and Sat:  Showers/Isolated Tstorms and Windy Friday - Sat Morning Showers then Dry and Breezy After Noon - Temps Mid/High 40's.

Sun and Mon:  Dry Sun - Showers/ Isolated Storms/Breezy Monday - Temps Low/Mid 50's.

Tues thru Sat: Rain/Breezy with Isolated Thunderstorms (We could easily see 3+" of Rain thru this period).

On This Day in Iowa Weather History

April 13

2006: Severe weather spawned 13 tornadoes across Iowa including one that passed through Iowa City, narrowly missing the University of Iowa campus while producing F2 damage and injuring 30 people. One residence in east central Johnson County was struck by two tornadoes about an hour apart. Large hail was reported at many locations, ranging up to baseball size at Iowa City and near Radcliffe.

1964: Very strong winds produced damage across the state with gusts measured as high as 75 mph. In the morning two school buses loaded with children were blown over near Le Mars, injuring 40.

1912: A tornado struck the Ford family farm in Boone County and the Weather Bureau provided the following account: "The debris from the buildings was scattered over the fields nearly a mile distant. How the members of the Ford family escaped injury cannot be told, even by the people themselves. When the storm hit, the house was lifted up into the air. People living down the valley [sic] say that the house went up fully 300 feet, whirling as rapidly as the fury of the storm could make it. It was not carried a great distance until after the breaking up and this occurred in mid air. Mrs. Ford and her son were in the house at the time it was struck. Immediately after the storm Mrs. Ford was found sitting in a chair in the yard, between the heavy kitchen range and a six-foot piece of brick chimney, with scarcely room between for the chair. Had either the stove or chimney been turned the least bit from their path in falling, Mrs. Ford would probably have been killed. The son dropped into a plowed field northwest of where the house had stood. He was also unscratched. Mr. Ford was in the yard, and while the house and barn were wrecked he was uninjured."