Today: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/scattered morning showers & thunderstorms. High 85. S @ 10-15 mph.
Tonight: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scatt. Shwrs & tstrms. Low 67. S @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scatt. Shwrs & tstrms. High 85. S 10-15.
Sunday: A chance of shwrs & tstrms in the morning then partly cloudy. High 87.
Monday: P/Cldy. High around 90.

Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 84. Our Low this morning, 63. We received .03″ rain overnight at KJAN. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 90 and the Low was 61. The Record High on this date was 95 in 1931. The Record Low was 28 in 1893.

(Radio Iowa) – Prolonged drought across the region has pushed the U-S Army Corps of Engineers to lower Missouri River levels from Nebraska City to Kansas City by a full foot. The lower levels will affect boat traffic and could impact municipal water supplies and other utilities that rely on the river. Missouri River Basin Water Management Director John Remus (REE-mus) says conditions have been getting worse since the drought first began to emerge in July of 2020. “In March, about 70% of the upper basin was experiencing some level of drought and about 20% of it was severe drought, very, very dry,” Remus says. “We have had some good rains throughout the year up there, but the conditions have improved, but not enough to really help the runoff.”

Remus says lower water levels will have an impact on navigation this fall.  “Of course, that means more trips or more barges to get the same amount of product up and down the river,” Remus says. Navigation continues on the Missouri, though barges will have to lighten their loads to float on the river. The navigation season will end on November 28th, which is three days early. Remus says even prolonged, heavy rains likely wouldn’t make up the difference in low soil moisture levels, as they’ve been so low for so long. “The wild card is really snowpack next year,” he says. “We had next-to-nothing for plains snowpack in 2022, and we had a below-average mountain snowpack. So unless we get better snowpack in the northern part of the basin, we’re probably going to be facing what we’ve seen this year again next year.”

Flows into the Missouri River have been reduced to cope with a much lower flood control pool in the six upstream reservoirs.

Today: Mostly Sunny. High 88. S @ 15 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Low 66. S @ 15.
Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy. High 85. S 10-20.
Friday: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/a chance of rain late. High 85. S @ 15 mph.
Saturday: P/Cldy w/a chance of rain. High 93. S @ 10-20.

Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 84. The Low was 44. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 79 and the Low was 47. The Record High on this date was 99 in 1939. The Record Low was 29 in 1892.

Today: Sunny. High 83. SE winds at 10 mph.
Tonight: Clear. Low 62. SE @ 10.
Tomorrow: Mostly Sunny. High 90. S 10-15.
Thursday: Mostly cloudy. High 88. S @ 15 mph.
Friday: Mo. Cloudy w/a chance of rain. High 90. S @ 10-20.

Monday’s High in Atlantic was 80. The Low was 42. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 87 and the Low was 61. The Record High on this date was 98 in 1893 & 1939. The Record Low was 25 in 1902.

Today: Sunny, with a high near 77. Light northwest wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the morning.

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 48. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Tomorrow: Sunny, with a high near 81. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 9 mph in the morning.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 87.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. Breezy.

Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 76. Our Low this morning, 42. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 76 and the Low was 62. The Record High on this date was 97 in 1939 & 2000. The Record Low was 28 in 1902.

Today: Sunny, with a high near 73. Light north northwest wind increasing to 8 to 13 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 44. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 75. Light northwest wind becoming north northwest 6 to 11 mph in the morning.
Monday Night: Clear, with a low around 48. Calm wind.
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 82. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the morning.
Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 55.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 84.

We received .53″ rain Saturday at the KJAN Studios. The High in Atlantic was 64. Our Low this morning was 44. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 91 and the Low was 56. The Record High on this date was 96 in 1895 & 1936. The Record Low was 31 in 1955.

Today: Mostly cloudy w/a 70% chance of rain. High 61. N @ 10-15.
Tonight: Cloudy w/a rain ending this evening; Becoming partly cloudy. Low 47. NE @ 10.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny. High 74. N @ 10.
Monday: Sunny. High 76. W @ 10.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny. High 86. S @ 10-15.

Friday’s High in Atlantic was 86. Our Low this morning, 56. We received .06″ of rain early this morning at KJAN. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 86 and the Low was 55. The Record High on this date was 86 in 1938. The Record Low was 36 in 1959.

(Radio Iowa) – August saw below-normal rainfall — but drought conditions did improve in some parts of the state. The D-N-R’s Tim Hall says some areas didn’t get the rain from thunderstorms. “You sort of have to look at it regionally. And some parts of Southeast Iowa were accepted exceptionally dry in the month of August,” Hall says. August was the fifth straight month with below-normal precipitation, and Hall says the state needs a rainfall rally.”To get out of a drought that’s been sort of lingering and brewing for a couple of years, it’s going to take month over month over month of above normal rainfall,” he says.

“We haven’t seen but one month this year, where we’ve had above normal rainfall statewide. We haven’t seen the conditions that we’d like to see that’ll start to dig us out of this long-term condition.” Rivers and streams are running low in some of the drought areas — which can lead to more problems.”There’s water quality issues that come along with decreased streamflow and groundwater. There’s some communities battling nitrate issues. So in northwest Iowa, it’s not very good. And if you look at the streamflow in southeast Iowa, it is also trending downward,” according to Hall.

The fall months are not normally the wettest of the year in Iowa — but Hall says there is some positive recent history. “Going back to 2016 — a really wet September, 2017 a really wet October, 2018 a really wet September, 2019 a really wet September, and last year a really wet October. So we’ve seen the emergence of the trend I think that shows September and or October being above normal for precipitation,” Hall says. He says the timing of the rains are key to rebuilding subsoil moisture. “There is there’s ample opportunity to get some much needed rainfall going into the winter. Depends how much we get and how much gets locked into the soil moisture before the ground freezes,” Hall says.

The latest drought monitor showed just a slight increase in the percentage of the state that doesn’t have any type of drought.

Today: Sunny to partly sunny. High 85. SW @ 10-15.
Tonight: Cloudy w/a slight chance of rain. Low 58. N @ 10-15.
Tomorrow: Cloudy & cooler, w/a 40% chance of rain. High 68. N @ 10-15.
Sunday: A slight chance of rain in the morning; Becoming mostly sunny. High 76. N @ 10.
Monday: Mostly sunny. High 84. W @ 10-15.

Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 86. Our Low was 56. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 81 and the Low was 45. The Record High on this date was 100 in 1893. The Record Low was 36 in 1959.