(Atlantic, Iowa) – The month of October in Atlantic was warmer than average. Data compiled at the KJAN Studios shows the Average High was 67, or about six-degrees above normal. The Average Low of 42 was three-degrees warmer than usual. Rainfall came in at 4.8-inches, which is slightly more than two-inches above normal.
During the month of November, the average high is 46 and the average low is 27. Rain and/or melted snowfall typically amounts to just 1.85-inches. We’ll let you know how the data compared to the norm, when we compile the data next month.
Skyscan Forecast Monday, November 1, 2021 Dan Hicks
Today: Mostly cloudy. NW @ 10. High 45.
Tonight: Clearing skies. Light and variable winds. Low 22.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny. Winds variable 5-10. High 47.
Tuesday Night: Mostly clear. Calm. Low 25.
Wednesday: Partly cloudy. High 47.
Thursday: Partly cloudy. High 53.
Yesterday’s high was 52 and the low was 26. This day last year the high was 48 and the low was 19. All-time record high for today’s date was 78 in 1933. The all-time record low was 10 in 1895. Sunrise is 7:52 a.m. and sunset is 6:15 p.m.
Today: Sunny, with a high near 50. Breezy, with a north northwest wind 10 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
Tonight: Widespread frost, mainly before 2am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a low around 33. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Monday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 46. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 9 mph in the morning.
Monday Night: Widespread frost, mainly after 10pm. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 24. Light northwest wind.
Tuesday: Widespread frost, mainly before 11am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 44. Calm wind becoming northwest around 6 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 44.
Skyscan Forecast Saturday, October 30, 2021 Dan Hicks
Today: Areas of fog early, then mostly sunny. SW @ 10-15. High 62.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. SW switching to the NW 10-15. Low 38.
Sunday: Partly cloudy. NW @ 15-25. High 50.
Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy. NW @ 5. Low 31.
Monday: Partly cloudy to cloudy. High 45.
Tuesday: Partly cloudy to cloudy. High 45.
(Radio Iowa) – This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of what came to be known as the 1991 Halloween Ice Storm in Iowa. National Weather Service Meteorologist Andrew Ansorge says the storm approached the state from the southwest and started as snow.
Very cold air poured into the state after the storm.
The storm knocked out power to about 80-thousand homes in Iowa and a state of emergency was issued for 52 of the state’s 99 counties.
(Radio Iowa) – It’s been an exceptionally rainy week in Iowa, with some communities reporting record precipitation, breaking rainfall records that have stood for more than a century. State climatologist Justin Glisan says the new U-S Drought Monitor map for Iowa shows improving conditions, with fewer counties indicated as being abnormally dry or in drought.
The entire southern tier of counties is in the clear, along with wide areas of western and southeast Iowa. The worst of the dry conditions, D-2 or severe drought, remain in central and north-central Iowa, with a small patch in the northwest.
This past Sunday’s rainfall set records in several Iowa cities, including Ottumwa, Waterloo, and Des Moines — where nearly three inches fell, breaking a record set in 1908. The new drought map was just released but it’s based on data that’s a few days old, so it’s not taking into account all the rain from Wednesday and Thursday, which was considerable.
October is wrapping up to be the wettest month of 2021, so far, and we’re heading into the driest months of the year. May is typically Iowa’s wettest month of the year while February is the driest.
Today: Mostly cloudy w/drizzle possible this morning; P/Cldy this afternoon. High 57. NW @ 15-25.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low 31. Winds light & variable.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny. High 62. SW @ 10.
Sunday: P/Cldy. High 51.
Monday: Mo. Cldy. High 45.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 49. Our Low this morning, 45. Rainfall in Atlantic, from 7-a.m. Thursday to 7-a.m. today, amounted to .60″. Last year on this date, the High was 45 and the Low was 25. The Record High was 91 in 1937, and the Record Low was 8 in 1895.
(Ames, Iowa) – The latest Iowa Drought Monitor map was released this (Thursday) morning. It shows continued improvement in the drought conditions, statewide. Locally, much of Montgomery, Cass and Adair Counties remain “Abnormally Dry,” while nearly two-thirds of Madison County is Abnormally Dry. Across Interstate 80, most of Audubon County is experiencing the same conditions, while small parts of Guthrie and Dallas Counties range from Abnormally Dry to mostly Moderately Dry.
Severe Drought conditions continue to affect parts or all of 10 counties in central/north central Iowa. Across the Midwest, much of the southern and central portions of the Midwest received heavy precipitation, with a band of 2 to locally 4 inches measured from Iowa and northeast Missouri to southern Michigan and northwest Ohio. Areas to the south and north had 0.5 to 2.0 inches, except for a dry spot in southeast Minnesota to central Wisconsin and a dry swath in central Missouri. The northern half of Minnesota received no precipitation.
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