Today: Patchy fog between 7am and 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 48. Northeast wind 6 to 8 mph becoming north northwest in the afternoon.
Tonight: Increasing clouds, with a low around 29. Northwest wind 3 to 6 mph.
Saturday: Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 49. North northwest wind 6 to 9 mph.
Sunday: A 20 percent chance of rain before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 57. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 11 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 48. Breezy.
(Radio Iowa) – Sunday marks the one year anniversary of the deadly tornado outbreak that included one that dropped down just outside Winterset in Madison County and killed six people. Madison County Community Foundation manager Tom Leners says some people are still working on their insurance settlements.
“There’s been a few challenges that way. But I think, overall, for the 50 some properties that were affected in Madison County, we feel like we are making progress,” he says. “And at this point, now people at least have a plan of what they’re going to do to get back in their property or utilize their property again.” He says volunteers and residents got to work soon after the tornado hit.
“There’s been a lot of cleanup, a lot of new construction, a lot of repair work has been done. So, those are all good things. There’s been a lot of folks wanting to help us through donations or an unkind sorts of supplies and that sort of thing,” Leners says. The Foundation handled the donations in the aftermath of the tornado and Leners says there was a great outpouring of help.
“Through the generosity of people in our state and from other storm zones, we we raised over half a million dollars,” Leners says. “We had money coming in from really coast to coast and border to border and we were very grateful for that. You could see clusters of checks coming in from communities that had storm damage in the past five years where they donated to ours too.” He says it’s hard to total up all the donations made by people of services. Some in central Iowa brought in their own equipment paid their own fuel costs to work removing downed trees.
“That part of the county was a very mature tree stand. So a lot of trees a lot of damage that way a lot to clean up. And so, so much progress was made in the first week or 10 days of getting roads back open and getting driveways back open to where you could get back into the property,” Leners says. Leners says he’s gotten a few concerned calls from people back in their property when there are storms.
“There are still some folks that are concerned as we have storm warnings. And of course, now we’re getting back into that season,” he says. Leners say will continue to work to recover physically and emotionally from the deadly tornado. The Bridge Community Church is holding a service Sunday that Leners says it kind of the official recognition of the one-year anniversary. The church worked with those who were displaced when their homes where destroyed.
Another person who was camping at Red Haw State Park near Chariton in Lucas County was killed on the same day by a tornado. There were 15 tornadoes confirmed in the state on that day.
Today: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. East wind 7 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. East northeast wind 8 to 10 mph.
Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 47. North wind 7 to 10 mph.
Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 47. West northwest wind 6 to 10 mph.
Sunday: A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. Breezy.
(Radio Iowa) – February ended up being much wetter than normal — though state climatologist Justin Glisan says we had a “snow drought,” where there was more rainfall than snowfall. February averaged a little over two inches preliminarily of precipitation, which is almost an inch above average. Glisen says the month will end up in the top 20 wettest February’s on record, after we saw the sixth driest February last year.
A warmer than average overall temperature could be part of the reason for the below average snow — as the state averaged 25-point-nine degrees — about one-point-eight degrees above average.
(Atlantic, Iowa – As we change the calendar from February to March, the weather records at KJAN show the past month was warm on the plus side, wet, and cold on the low side. The average High for the month was 41 (40.6 degrees). That’s 5.2 degrees warmer than the norm. We received 2.73 inches of precipitation (rain/sleet/melted snow), which was 1.77 inches wetter than the norm of .96 inches. And, the Low averaged out to 15.07 degrees, which was 10 degrees (10.23) colder than average.
The warmest day was February 13th (56-degrees). The coldest days (a 24-hour Low) were on the 16th & 17th, both days coming in at -9 degrees. The snowiest day was February 16th (4.3″).
Here’s what the weather stats for Atlantic normally are, during the month of March:
(Radio Iowa) – After years of flood recovery efforts, a southwest Iowa group is shifting its focus to disaster preparedness. The Fremont County Disaster Coalition, previously known as the Fremont County Long Term Disaster Recovery Group, will meet this weekend. The group was formed after the 2019 Missouri River floods that devastated the region. Coalition secretary Mandy Maher says the meeting will highlight the group’s accomplishments and lay groundwork for the future.
Since the 2019 floods, the group has distributed nearly 240-thousand dollars in financial assistance and helped coordinate other goods and services to aid the 240-some households in the county impacted by the floods. The group is looking to disaster preparedness, as Maher says trouble is always lurking around the corner, whether it’s a tornado, a fire, a flood or a derecho.
Today: Increasing clouds, with a high near 49. Breezy, with a west northwest wind 10 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. North northwest wind 10 to 13 mph becoming northeast after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.
Thursday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 39. East northeast wind 9 to 13 mph.
Friday: A slight chance of snow before noon, then a slight chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 43. Breezy, with a north wind 14 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 44.
Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 42. The Low was 23. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 68 and the Low was 27. The Record High on this date was 77 in 1992. The Record Low was -32 in 1962.
Today: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/a chance of light rain late. High 48. SE @ 10-15 mph.
Tonight: Rain ending; P/Cldy. Low 30. N @ 10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 50. N @ 10.
Thursday: Mo. Cldy. High 42.
Friday: Mo. Cldy. High 38.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 45. Our Low this morning, 24. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 68 and the Low was 19. The Record High on this date was 71 in 1972. The Record Low was -28 in 1962.
Today: Mostly cloudy w/light rain ending this morning; Becoming Partly cloudy. High around 53 w/temps slipping into the 40’s. NW @ 15-30 mph.
Tonight: Fair to P/Cldy. Low 25. NW @ 5.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy. High 48. SE @ 10-15.
Wednesday: P/Cldy. High near 50.
Thursday: Mo. Cldy. High 42.
Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 55. The Low was 19. We received 1.06 inches of rain overnight at the KJAN Studios. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 57 and the Low was 11. The Record High was 71 in 2016, and the Record Low was -16 in 1960. Sunrise is at 6:58 and Sunset is at 6:08.
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