Author: Meteorologist Maurer

(IowaStormCenter.com) — Iowa Storm Center has issued the final forecast for the months spanning from November 2024 to May 2025 for the temperature and precipitation factors associated with the coming La Nina. The last two months have been very dry across Iowa, but an active period is in store at the end of the month as we move toward a La Nina for the upcoming season. The years of interest specifically point to a combination of 2010-2011 and 2016-2017 which both threw a curveball to forecasters. This will be a weak/moderate La Nina with average snowfall for the north half…

(IowaStormCenter.com) — Cold front to spark showers and strong thunderstorms Thursday evening. A frontal system will hit Thursday evening with a renewed risk of severe weather extending from southwest through central Iowa. The main impulse of showers and thunderstorms will develop along the frontal zone 6-8 PM capable of hail and gusty winds. This activity will gradually drag east overnight with all activity to clear out by Friday morning. Rainfall amounts of 0.50-1.50” will be most common from central through southeast Iowa. – Meteorologist Maurer

(IowaStormCenter.com) — A strong high will bring gusty winds today and the first frost/freeze tonight. A tight pressure gradient will give way to strong northwesterly surface winds today with gusts of 30-45 MPH. Then the high will move through the area later tonight This will lead to clear skies and light wind making conditions favorable for frost formation across western Iowa with temperatures in the lower 30s. Then another strong high pressure will slide through the state early this week as temperatures continue to dip into the 20s and 30s Monday night and maximizing Tuesday night. A widespread freeze is…

(IowaStormCenter.com) — Dry and mild conditions will continue this week with a change later this month. https://youtu.be/MqyxUV6STwE We will see high temperatures start off in the 60s to lower 70s today, then gradually warming into the upper 70s to middle 80s later this week. A mainly dry pattern will continue throughout the work week with a lower-end rain chance by the upcoming weekend. A couple notable storm systems are still on track around October 20-30th where storm chances increase, as mentioned in the October monthly forecast. – Meteorologist Maurer –

(IowaStormCenter.com) — The official October 2024 weather forecast is in at Iowa Storm Center with a similar look to September. The forecast for September verified well with two storm systems through the entire month while fairing below average with precipitation and above average on temperatures. A similar take is in store as we kick off the month of October. Above average temperatures and below average precipitation will continue to be the theme through the latter half of October with multiple cold fronts that will slide through Iowa. A couple notable systems will hit toward the middle to latter half of…

(IowaStormCenter.com) — Temperatures increase this week with spotty rain chances. https://youtu.be/xhyCfPF6I1M The rainy system will wrap up later today with the bulk of rain that fell across the far south/southwest portion of the state where several areas reported 1-2″ of rainfall with locally 3″ in spots. We will see a dry start to the work week with high temperatures rising back into the 70s, then upper 70s/lower 80s by late week. Another shortwave will offer up rain chances to northwest Iowa later Monday night into Tuesday morning. Then we are watching for tropical threats in the Gulf coast that may…

(IowaStormCenter.com) — A pacific storm system will bring severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall starting later today, maximizing tonight through Sunday, and ending Monday. Strong upper divergence with instability will promote a low-end severe weather threat starting around 4-5 PM from southwest through central and into northeast Iowa. This activity will continue south and east through the afternoon and evening with a hail and damaging wind threat. Then additional convective development is anticipated tonight through Sunday where the threat will transition to primarily heavy rainfall across southern Iowa. The main corridor of rain is expected across the central to southeast half…

(IowaStormCenter.com) — A pacific storm system will bring plentiful moisture to portions of the forecast area this weekend. A strong upper-level system will get underway Saturday night with an uptick in showers and thunderstorms across western Iowa. This activity will continue a slow trend east stretching through Sunday and into Monday. Then all activity will taper off later Monday morning as the system works off to the northeast. The official rainfall numbers will be available in the final forecast, but the precipitation risk model is available now. The hardest hit areas extend across the red shaded zone where ponding and…

(IowaStormCenter.com) — Mild temperatures continue with increasing storm chances later this week. https://youtu.be/eoGfsxM87NY A frontal system will move in from the west with shower and thunderstorm chances increasing Wednesday morning over western Iowa. Then a second round hits Thursday night into Friday followed by additional rounds of storms Friday night through Sunday. Rainfall amounts over the next 7 days is certainly the highest over western Iowa where the potential is quite elevated for 0.50-1.50″ of rain during this period. – Meteorologist Maurer –

(IowaStormCenter.com) — Iowa Storm Center is innovating new services with the launch of a new website. The new Iowa Storm Center.com website is live with new features that are user friendly to the end user, including a dark design for those that like dark mode. You can do this by simply clicking on the moon icon in the upper right corner of the menu bar on our website. Then to revert to the main website, you will click the sun icon in the same location. Additionally, we are continuing to assess new algorithms of our custom models, this includes the…