Today: Sunny, with a high near 77. W/NW @ 10-20 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 48. Light & variable winds.
Friday: P/Cldy. High near 79. S @ 10.
Saturday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77.
Sunday: Mostly cloudy w/a chance of showers & thunderstorms. High around 77.
Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 74. Our Low this morning, 43. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 83 and the Low was 49. The Record High of 100 was set in 1934. The Record Low of 36 was set in 1907.
(Radio Iowa/KJAN) – State climatologist Justin Glisan says the numbers show the state May temperature average was slightly warmer than normal. “We look at the average for all our weather stations we are about one and a half degrees above average at 61 degrees,” he says. Glisan says there were some 80 and 90-degree days in the month that brought the average up. He says the warm days helped make it an active month for severe weather.
“We actually had a derecho clip the northwestern part of the state, also forming what we call a haboob — or a large scale dust storm that we don’t typically get in the midwest,” he says. Glisan says those storms brought rain with them and May ended up wetter than May of last year. “But we were still drier than average. We were about …. one-point-six-four inches below average,” Glisan says. “The driest conditions in the southeastern part of the state.”
Glisan says the end of May marks the start of the climatological summer season that will run through August 31st.
Weather data compiled at the KJAN Studios for the month of May, show we were nearly spot-on normal temperature-wise, but above normal in the amount of rain we received. The average High in May was 73, which matches the norm for the month. The average Low was 50, which is just one-degree warmer than normal. Rainfall amounted to 4.87 inches, which is .55″ more than what we would normally expect to see. The hottest day was on the 9th of May, when we reached 93 degrees.
Looking at the norms for June, the High averages 83, the Low 59, and rainfall typically totals just under 5-inches (4.98″). We’ll let you know how the actual numbers fared for June, on July 1st.
Weather data compiled at the KJAN Studios for the month of May, show we were nearly spot-on normal temperature-wise, but above normal in the amount of rain we received. The average High in May was 73, which matches the norm for the month. The average Low was 50, which is just one-degree warmer than normal. Rainfall amounted to 4.87 inches, which is .55″ more than what we would normally expect to see. The hottest day was on the 9th of May, when we reached 93 degrees.
Looking at the norms for June, the High averages 83, the Low 59, and rainfall typically totals just under 5-inches (4.98″). We’ll let you know how the actual numbers fared for June, on July 1st.
Today: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/scattered showers, mainly after 4pm. High around 72. N @ 10 mph.
Tonight: Scattered showers ending in the evening. Becoming P/Cldy. Low 44. Wind light and variable.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny. High 75. W @ 10.
Friday: P/Cldy. High near 79.
Saturday: Mo. Cldy w/a 50% chance of showers. High around 79.
Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 79. Our Low this morning, 52. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 79 and the Low was 50. The Record High of 99 was set in 1934. The Record Low of 36 was set in 1956.
(Radio Iowa) – Storm damage is scattered from one end of Iowa to the other after severe weather rolled through late Monday night and early this (Tuesday) morning. National Weather Service meteorologist Alex Krull says at least a dozen counties are reporting damage to trees, roofs and farm outbuildings, with some of the worst of it being found in Hamilton County. “We had some strong winds, anywhere between 60 and 70 miles per hour, that resulted in some downed power lines as well as grain bin damage,” Krull says. “We’re also looking at the potential for other tree damage that may have occurred in the county. We had some isolated reports of hail up to about quarter size with some of the initial storms that went up in northern Iowa.”
While it is tornado season in Iowa, Krull says it appears all of the damage from this storm was caused by straight-line winds. “We’ve not had any reports of tornadoes or suspect any of the damage was caused by a tornado, therefore we do not anticipate doing any surveys,” Krull says. “We will be calling emergency managers and other core partners to get more damage reports. If we do suspect that there is anything that may have been tornadic, then that would require sending crews out.”
Hamilton County Sheriff Doug Timmons says it was a rough night and clean-up is well underway. “We had a lot of tree damage, some structural damage to machine sheds, a little bit of roof damage to residential, some grain bins destroyed, a lot of power lines laying on the roads and power poles knocked over,” Timmons says, “but the biggest thing is that we’ve had no injuries reported.”
While some Iowa cities had high temperatures Monday in the 80s and low 90s, cooler weather is coming behind the storms that should mean highs by Wednesday only in the 60s and 70s.
(Audubon, Iowa) – Severe thunderstorms with high winds caused damage to cattle barns Monday evening, in Audubon County. The National Weather Service says the damage happened about 2-miles east-southeast of Audubon, a little before 5-p.m. No one was hurt, and no animals were harmed. Thunderstorms passing through the area were packing winds of 60-to 70-miles per hour.
The Weather Service says an automated weather observation device 2-miles east of Harlan, recorded a non-thunderstorm 58-mph gust of wind, at around 5:45-p.m.
Today: Partly cloudy. High near 80. NW @ 10-15 mph.
Tonight: Fair to Partly cloudy. Low 48. NW @ 10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy w/a chance of scattered afternoon showers. High 70. N @ 10.
Thursday: Mo. Sunny. High 75.
Friday: P/Cldy. High around 78.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 85. Our Low this morning was 60. We received .56″ rain at KJAN in Atlantic, Monday evening and night. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 77 and the Low was 49. The Record High on this date was 101 in 1934. The Record Low was 31 in 1897.
Today (Memorial Day): Scattered showers & thunderstorms this morning; Becoming P/Cldy. High 88. SW @ 20-35. Wind Advisory from Noon until 8-p.m.
Tonight: Partly cloudy w/scatt. Shwrs & tstrms. Low 70. S @ 10-15.
Tomorrow: Showers ending; P/Cldy. High 78. NW @ 10-15.
Wednesday: Mo. Cldy. High near 70.
Thursday: Mo. Sunny. High around 73.
Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 85. Our Low was 67. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 64 and the Low was 45. The Record High on this date was 105 in 1934. The Record Low was 33 in 1930.
Today and tonight: A few thunderstorms are possible this morning though the severe weather threat is low. More widespread storms are expected to develop late this afternoon and into the overnight. Severe storms with large hail, damaging wind gusts and a few tornadoes are possible.
A Wind Advisory is in effect for the area today.
Tuesday through Sunday: There is a slight risk for severe storms on Tuesday over southeast Iowa. Thunderstorms are also in the forecast for Wednesday and Wednesday night over southern Iowa and again for much of the area by next weekend.
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Spotter activation is possible later today and tonight.
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