Today: P/Cldy to Cldy w/isolated morning showers. High 76. N wind @ 5-10 mph.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low around 53. N @ 5-10.
Tuesday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scattered afternoon showers & thunderstorms. High 78. SE 10.
Wednesday: Showers early, then P/Cldy. High 76.
Thursday: P/Cldy w/a chance of late afternoon showers. High 79.

Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 83. Our Low 61. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 84 and the Low was 66. The Record HIgh was 103 in 1933. The Record Low was 32 in 1894.

(Sunday’s rainfall amount will be added before 6-p.m.)

(Radio Iowa) – State Climatologist, Justin Glisan, says the latest Climate Prediction Center outlook for June shows an elevated signal for below-average temperatures. “So typically during the warm season, and meteorological summer, which we’re in now, when we do see a cold signal that typically is coupled with a wetter signal, so we’ll just have to see how the month pans out,” he says, “but the expectation is, with these cooler temperatures, we’d get rainfall during the day more cloud cover at night.” Glisan says we’d see impacts on both sides for temperatures.

“Overnight lows would be a little warmer and our daytime highs would be a little cooler if that does come to fruition,” Glisan says. He says the indication now is things wouldn’t be cooler throughout the summer. Now if we look at June July and August in terms of temperature and precipitation as well we’re seeing an elevated signal for warmer temperatures and then for much of the state slightly elevated chances for drier than normal conditions,” according to Glisan. He says we normally see a drop in precipitation in July anyway. Glisan says there is one thing that could help keep the drought conditions from getting as bad as they did last summer.

“We are working with more subsoil moisture and that does act to keep temperatures slightly lower than normal so we do have a few things that are working to our benefit right now,” Glisan says. The drought conditions last year expanded from western Iowa into north-central and central Iowa as we moved deeper into summer.

Today: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 80. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1am. Low around 61. South wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 75. West northwest wind 5 to 13 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.
Tuesday: A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Calm wind becoming east northeast around 6 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of showers before 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 74.

Saturday’s High in Atlantic was 75. Our Low this morning, 58. We received just a few sprinkles (Trace amount) of rain, Saturday mid-morning. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 91 and the Low was 65. The Record High of 104 was set in 1933. The Record Low of 40 was set in 1897 & 1935.

Today: Partly cloudy. High 82. Winds South @ 10 mph.

Tonight: P/Cldy to Cloudy w/showers developing late. Low 60. S @ 5-10.

Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. High 79. S @ 10-15.

Sunday & Monday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. High Sunday 77. High Monday, 72.

Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 79. Our Low was 46. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 86 and the Low was 53. The Record High of 94 was set in 2020. The Record Low of 32 was set in 1969.

(Radio Iowa) – This week’s temperatures in Iowa are fairly on target for the season, but soon enough, we’ll be getting into the hot, humid days of summer. Today (Thursday) is Heat Awareness Day in Iowa and meteorologist Donna Dubberke, at the National Weather Service, explains the goals. “Heat awareness is really important because it’s an underrated hazard,” Dubberke says. “We know it’s going to be hot in the summer and sometimes we don’t take it seriously and you can have serious injury and even fatalities in extreme cases if you don’t do the right things.” She notes that spending too much time outside can mean more than just a bad case of sunburn.

“When we get hot and humid in the summer, it becomes really difficult for your body to make the necessary adjustments and stay cool enough,” Dubberke says. “If your body gets overheated, you can have heat illnesses, heat exhaustion, heat stroke. That’s why we’re encouraging people to learn what you need to do and to be ready for when it does get hot, even though it’s not going to be that hot this week.” Iowa motorists need to take special care with their passengers when the weather starts to warm up.

“Never leave a pet or a child and in a hot car,” she says. “It can heat up so quickly, so much hotter and so much faster than you think it normally would.” Find more tips about heat awareness at www.weather.gov/dmx

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.

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.